Recent Opportunities
Brooklyn Musuem Summer Internships
As a Brooklyn Museum intern, you’ll join a dynamic group of emerging arts professionals. Together you’ll reenvision the future of museums while gaining workplace skills through hands-on, real-world projects. Positions are available in Archives, Arts of the Americas, Conservation, Decorative Arts and Design, Digital Content, Exhibition Design, Feminist Art, Graphic Design, Indigenous Art, and Visitor Experience.
These paid internship opportunities are available to those who have completed their sophomore, junior, or senior year, as well as recent graduates and graduate students. Interns receive $17 per hour and work 35 hours per week. Students may only apply for one position (there are 10 available). Applications close March 24, with internships running from June 9- August 22nd.
Pregnancy Justice: 2025 Summer Research Intern (Undergraduate)
The Pregnancy Prosecutions Tracking Study is a three-year research study seeking to document the extent and nature of pregnancy criminalization in the three years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade. The study is an academic-advocacy partnership between Pregnancy Justice and legal academic scholars in Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Texas, and Oklahoma. Pregnancy Justice seeks an undergraduate intern for June – August 2025 to support the team’s data collection and preparation for an upcoming report.
UN Internship Vacancies and Fellowships
The Starr Career Development Center has contacted the history department with a list of internship opportunities offered through the UN that draw directly upon many of the strengths that we teach in our history classes. The list of internships is available here.
Unfortunately, they are unpaid internships. However, this is a good opportunity to remind you all of the Dr. Wendy Heyman Public Interest Fellowship and the UNA-USA Fellowship.
Dr. Wendy Heyman Public Interest Fellowship provides $4,000 for students who are working (230 hours) in an unpaid internship/volunteer experience at a site where they are making a difference in the world (e.g., non-profits, NGOs, government agencies, arts/music venues, museums). Yes, you can apply now for an internship this summer. However, you have to apply before they are all given out. Right now there are 9 left to award to students.
Below are the URLS for the 2-part application (i.e., student application and employer verification form).
- Student application: https://baruch.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4IbmyeWX9vgWVwx
- Employer Verification form: https://baruch.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Ex0TBwofAZ0dE1
We also encourage you to explore the UNA-USA Fellowship for US citizens. A first-of-its-kind scholarship, the UNA-USA Fellowship provides financial support for American undergraduates who have received their bachelor’s degree within one year of graduation, and first year master’s students who have secured unpaid internships with the United Nations. If selected, you can be awarded up to $13,000 for up to four months.
Historical and Cultural Institutions
American Numismatic Society
The American Numismatic Society is dedicated to the study and public appreciation of coins, currencies, medals, and other related objects. Interns may also work on other ongoing and short-term projects, possibly with the opportunity to work with rare books dating back to the 16th century and materials in the ANS Archives, as well as assist with the day-to-day operation of the Library.
Asia Society and Museum
Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Asia Society’s internship program is designed to provide practical vocational experience, training, and opportunities to both plan and participate in events and programs. Interns have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the interplay of Asian and Western cultures.
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Brooklyn Children’s Museum (BCM) is New York City’s largest cultural institution designed especially for families, with exhibits and programs grounded in visual arts, music and performance, natural science, and world cultures.
Carnegie Hall/Rose Museum
Carnegie Hall’s mission is to present extraordinary music and musicians on the three stages of this legendary hall, to bring the transformative power of music to the widest possible audience, to provide visionary education programs, and to foster the future of music through the cultivation of new works, artists, and audiences. The Rose Museum chronicles Carnegie Hall’s history. It exhibits its archival treasures to the public−including concert programs, photographs, autographed posters, musical manuscripts, and video−to tell the history of the building and the events that made it famous.
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
The Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, the last farmhouse in Manhattan, is a vital cultural asset in New York City. The mission of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance (DFMA) is to support the preservation of the historic site, to be a catalyst for engaging, adventuresome programming and to be a good neighbor and a dynamic resource for the community.
Ellis Island Museum
The French Renaissance Revival structure, restored to its 1918 – 1924 appearance, tells the moving tales of the 12 million immigrants who entered America through the golden door of Ellis Island.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is the nation’s leading American history organization dedicated to K-12 education. The Institute’s mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American history through educational programs and resources. The Gilder Lehrman Institute supports two internship cycles each year: academic-year internships and summer internships. Internships are generally available in a variety of departments, including accounting, curatorial, development, digital, education, and marketing.
Hispanic Society Museum & Library
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library advances the study and appreciation of the art, literature, and culture of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Philippines. Today, the museum and library collections from antiquity through the early 20th century are widely recognized as the most comprehensive in scope and quality outside of Spain.
History News Network
History News Network (HNN) puts current events into historical perspective, creating a space for historians to offer deeper context for the stories flitting across American newspapers and TV screens. An arm of Bunk Social at the University of Richmond, HNN maintains an email newsletter offering new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present and an archive of thousands of original op-eds and curated stories from around the web.
Japan Society
Japan Society’s internship program offers part-time internships that provide a wide range of opportunities for participants to learn about non-profit administration in a cultural institution, obtain job market skills and experience, and gain an appreciation of Japanese arts and culture. While the internships are unpaid, Japan Society values its interns and provides certain benefits.
The Jewish Museum
The Jewish Museum is one of the world’s preeminent institutions devoted to Jewish culture, maintaining a unique collection of nearly 30,000 works of art, ceremonial objects, and media reflecting the global Jewish experience over more than 4,000 years. The Jewish Museum’s year-round Internship Program provides an opportunity to participate in the day-to-day operations of one of New York City’s leading museums of art and culture.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress Junior Fellows Program (JFP) is a paid, 10-week annual summer internship program that enables undergraduate, graduate students, and recent graduates to gain career experience by working with analog and digital collections and supporting the services of the world’s largest, all-inclusive library. Working with curators and specialists in various divisions, Junior Fellows explore collections, resources, and initiatives and produce products that position the Library of Congress as a dynamic center for fostering innovation, sparking creativity, and building lifelong connections.
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
The Tenement Museum preserves and interprets the history of immigration through the personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settled in and built lives on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, America’s iconic immigrant neighborhood; forges emotional connections between visitors and immigrants past and present; and enhances appreciation for the profound role immigration has played and continues to play in shaping America’s evolving national identity.
Merchant’s House Museum
Through public programs and exhibitions, restoration of its landmark building, and conservation of its original collections, the Museum educates the public about the domestic life of a wealthy merchant family and their four Irish servants, 1835-1865, when the mercantile seaport of New York City emerged as a growing metropolis.
The Morgan Library
The most influential financier in this country’s history, Pierpont Morgan was also a voracious collector. He bought on an astonishing scale, collecting art objects in virtually every medium, including the rare books, manuscripts, drawings, prints, and ancient artifacts that are the core of The Morgan Library & Museum’s holdings.
The Mount Vernon Hotel House and Garden
The Museum shares and promotes historical knowledge for the education and enjoyment of the public through engaging interpretation and programs. The Museum presents its 1799 building and grounds as the Mount Vernon Hotel, which served day customers and travelers from 1826 to 1833.
Museum of Jewish Heritage
The Museum is committed to the crucial mission of educating diverse visitors about Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York celebrates and interprets the city, educating the public about its distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation.
National Museum of the American Indian
A diverse and multifaceted cultural and educational enterprise, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), a component of the Smithsonian Institution, cares for one of the world’s most expansive collections of Native artifacts, including objects, photographs, archives, and media covering the entire Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. The NMAI Internship Program provides educational opportunities for students interested in the museum profession and related fields. Interns complete projects using the resources of the NMAI and other Smithsonian offices. Internships are an opportunity for students to learn about the museum’s collections, exhibitions, programs, and methodologies, and to meet professionals in the museum field.
New York Historical Society
The New York Historical Society, one of America’s pre-eminent cultural institutions, is dedicated to fostering research, presenting history and art exhibitions, and public programs that reveal the dynamism of history and its influence on the world of today. It offers internships in both its Museum and Library divisions for high school, college, and graduate-level students. From modeling creative exhibition layouts to researching with our curators and educators, our interns experience unparalleled career development and cultivate fruitful professional relationships.
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years. Includes the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. Internships at the Smithsonian Institution are as varied as the museums and research centers themselves. From Art History to Zoology, exhibit building to investments, Smithsonian Internships provide workplace-based learning experiences for a wide range of educational and career paths.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center
Snug Harbor is a place where history, architecture, visual and performing arts, gardens, agriculture, and education come together and provide dynamic experiences for all ages. It is one of the largest ongoing adaptive reuse projects in America and is one of New York City’s unique architectural complexes and historic landscapes.
South Street Seaport Museum
South Street Seaport Museum is a cultural institution dedicated to telling the story of the rise of New York as a port city and its critical role in the development of the United States.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
This is the boyhood home of the first U.S. president to be born in New York City. Raised in a townhouse at 28 E. 20th St., Theodore Roosevelt would grow up to be our 26th President and become immortalized on Mount Rushmore. However, he started life as a sickly yet bright boy who exercised to improve his health and began a lifelong passion for the “strenuous life.”
Government and Non-Governmental Organizations
Council of Foreign Relations
At CFR, interns participate in one of the foremost paid internship programs in the foreign policy arena. They do work that matters alongside smart and dedicated staff in a diverse and inclusive environment. Interns are paid a competitive hourly wage while gaining valuable experience through exposure to leading foreign policy experts. They are also offered professional development training as a foundation for future work in the field of foreign policy and international affairs.
United Nations
If you are thinking of entering the world of diplomacy and public policy, an internship at the United Nations could be the ideal start for you. The objective of the internship is to give you a first-hand impression of the day-to-day working environment of the United Nations. You will be given a real chance to work with our people. As part of our team, working directly with outstanding and inspiring career professionals and senior management, you will be exposed to high-profile conferences, participate in meetings, and contribute to analytical work as well as organizational policy of the United Nations. Initially you will take on the amount of responsibility you can shoulder; the potential for growth, however, is yours to develop.
Art Museums
American Folk Art Museum
The American Folk Art Museum is the premier institution devoted to the creative expressions of self-taught artists, past and present.
Artists Space
Artists Space is a non-profit art gallery and arts organization and has been the site of provocative discussion and experimentation within contemporary artistic debate.
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Specializing in contemporary art by New Yorkers of Latin, Asian & African-American descent.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
The goal of the Brooklyn Museum of Art is to create inspiring encounters with art that expand the ways we see ourselves, the world and its possibilities.
The Cloisters
The Met Cloisters, located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park, is the branch of the Museum dedicated to the art, architecture, and gardens of medieval Europe.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Its collections and exhibitions explore approximately 240 years of design aesthetic and creativity.
Dahesh Museum
The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only institution in the United States devoted to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting works by Europe’s academically trained artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Dia Center for the Arts
Dia Art Foundation is a nonprofit organization that initiates, supports, presents, and preserves art projects
The Drawing Center
The Drawing Center is a nonprofit exhibition space that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary.
The Frick Collection
The Frick is known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts.
Grey Art Gallery
As a university art museum, the Grey Art Gallery functions to collect, preserve, study, document, interpret, and exhibit the evidence of human culture.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim
With its exhibitions of Solomon Guggenheim’s somewhat eccentric art collection, the unusual gallery provides many visitors with their first encounter with great works by Vasily Kandinsky, as well as works by his followers, including Rudolf Bauer, Alice Mason, Otto Nebel, and Rolph Scarlett
International Center of Photography
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met collects, studies, conserves, and presents over 5,000 years of art across cultures around the world. Join a community of interns to gain professional skills and learn about museum practice. The Met has over forty department areas that host interns from a wide variety of academic backgrounds.
Municipal Art Society
For nearly 125 years, The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) has worked to educate and inspire New Yorkers to engage in the betterment of our city.
El Museo del Barrio
The mission of El Museo del Barrio is to present and preserve the art and culture of Puerto Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States.
Museum for African Art (The Africa Center)
The Africa Center’s work is premised on the idea that this emerging market of one billion people, characterized by extraordinary diversity and complexity, is inescapably relevant to building a prosperous and secure future.
Museum of Modern Art
Their evolving collection contains almost 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art.
Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image is the country’s only museum dedicated to the art, history, technique, and technology of the moving image in all its forms.
National Academy Museum
The Academy Museum celebrates the visual journey of the arts in America. Marked by discovery, experimentation and innovation, the Museum’s permanent collection-comprised of artist-submitted works-offers profound insights into the story of American art.
New Museum of Contemporary Art
The New Museum is a leading destination for new art and new ideas. It is Manhattan’s only dedicated contemporary art museum and is respected internationally for the adventurousness and global scope of its curatorial program.
PS1 Contemporary Art Center
An exhibition space rather than a collecting institution, MoMA PS1 devotes its energy and resources to displaying the most experimental art in the world.
Studio Museum in Harlem
The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.
Media and Entertainment
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – Spring 2025 Internship Program
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” is seeking the next batch of interns for its SPRING 2025 Internship program! Our paid program provides college juniors, seniors, and recent graduates the opportunity to understand the production process of an hour-long late night variety show.
Science and Technology
American Museum of Natural History
The museum collections contain over 33 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts. Do you want to inspire curiosity in a captivating environment where science, community, and communication intertwine? The Museum Education Experience Program is a unique, challenging experience for college students and recent graduates.
Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an urban botanic garden that connects people to the world of plants, fostering delight and curiosity while inspiring an appreciation and sense of stewardship of the environment.
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is a non-profit, educational institution featuring the legendary aircraft carrier Intrepid, the space shuttle Enterprise, the world’s fastest jets and a guided missile submarine.
National Geographic Society
Every year, the National Geographic Society provides a number of students with a paid opportunity to spend the summer exploring and learning with us. We offer a diverse range of dynamic internships that are designed to offer a well-rounded experience. Our goal is to provide engaging, educational, and work-related opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students.
New York Hall of Science
The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) was founded at the 1964–65 World’s Fair and has evolved into New York’s center for interactive science, nurturing generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens.
