Museum Internship

The Massillon Museum welcomes applications for a paid, part-time intern position that will begin the first week of March, 2010, and continue through 2011. The position is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The Massillon Museum will receive funding specifically to facilitate a research project, “Faces of Rural America,” which will result in scholarly articles, exhibitions, exhibition catalogs, and educational components. The project will focus on two important American photographers, Belle Johnson and Henry Clay Fleming, whose work is represented by more than 1500 images in the Museum’s permanent collection. The photographers operated studios during the early-twentieth century in the rural towns of Monroe City, Missouri, and Ravenswood, West Virginia, respectively. Most of the Museum’s photographic images from these two artists are unidentified portraits. Museum researchers will visit the two cities to collect oral histories and work in collaboration with their libraries and historical societies to facilitate the project.
The intern will be hired specifically for this project to transcribe oral histories, enter information into a database, track scanned images and interview footage, help with exhibition loan paperwork, and facilitate image management for catalog and media needs. The intern, a college student studying history, art history, museum studies, or American studies, must demonstrate proven skills in organization, word processing, writing, and communication. Housing and travel accommodations will be the responsibility of the intern.
Applications will be due on January 8, 2010. The position will be filled by January 29. The internship will be available for two consecutive 18-week periods beginning in March of 2010.
For additional information about the internship opportunity, call Alexandra Nicholis at 330.833.4061.