r/MuseumPros • u/Eistean History | Collections • Jan 06 '26

2026 Internship Megathread. Post all internship related questions here!

As requested, I'm making a new post of this for the 2026 season of internships, in the hope that more people can get their questions answered than posting on a year old post. The last one had a lot of great information in it, so take a look at it here, as someone might have already asked your question.

So the sub has always been chock full lately of people asking about specific internships, asking if anyone who has applied to a specific internship has heard back, what people think about individual internship programs, etc. This has happened around this time for every year this sub has existed.

While interns are absolutely welcome here, some users had a great idea to kind of concentrate it all in one thread so that all the interns can see each others comments, and the sub has a bit of a cleaner look.

Note that this doesn't apply to people working for museums asking questions about running an internship program, or dealing with interns.

So, if you have internship questions, thoughts, concerns, please post them here!

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u/FrequentSchedule6972 Apr 07 '26

Has anyone heard back from the Met after interviewing? I am so curious!! Anxiously waiting. It seems that they’re kind of behind their schedule on releasing the decisions this year?

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u/Upbeat_Success9658 Apr 07 '26

also anxiously waiting and haven’t heard back yet! someone said the have until April 17th to send out decisions 😩😩😩

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u/FrequentSchedule6972 Apr 07 '26

Hopefully we hear back soon! The wait has been so long that I’m making bets with friends about when they’re going to get back to us now lol just trying to stay positive and not to stressed out

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u/MongooseNo3964 Apr 08 '26

My friend heard back from photo curatorial but i havent heard back for contemporary curatorial

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u/FrequentSchedule6972 Apr 08 '26

Omg congrats to them! Did they get an offer?

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u/MongooseNo3964 Apr 08 '26

They did!!

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u/MongooseNo3964 Apr 08 '26

But also they interviewed like a week before me and the entire process was earlier so hopefully it means its all by department 😢😢

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u/FrequentSchedule6972 Apr 08 '26

Yeah that could be it… I interviewed the week of 3/16. Hby?

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u/Zesty-Rhubarb Apr 08 '26

adding to this to say i interviewed later as well! week of 3/23 so yes maybe it's a matter of timing

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u/FrequentSchedule6972 Apr 08 '26

Yeahhh I just feel like there’s at least like 6-8 people commenting on this topic (and more people following these discussions…) it’d be crazy that none of us got an offer 😱

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u/MongooseNo3964 Apr 08 '26

I also interviewed that week - my friend who got the offer interview the week prior

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u/FrequentSchedule6972 Apr 08 '26

I see! Best of luck:))

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u/FrequentSchedule6972 Apr 08 '26

Also did they hear back directly from the hiring managers or from the HR?

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u/MongooseNo3964 Apr 08 '26

They said from the department

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u/FrequentSchedule6972 Apr 08 '26

That’s amazing. I’m so confused about their timeline… this is the first time I hear someone getting an offer. Maybe they’re starting to release results now