The Internship with available arts cultural institutions is a prestigious and demanding program, in which the Internship Convenor places graduate students with a sound record of academic achievement in Art History or a related field.   The Internship is designed to provide the student with insights into the activities and the workings of an art museum or gallery. The specific nature of the contact work will depend on the requirements of the art museum specialist supervisor, who may include curators, registrars, research program managers and art educators and public programmers.  The internship is seen as providing an opportunity for learning about the field in preparation towards an art museum career.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the skills and knowledge to:

1.participate within an arts cultural institution and understand the workings of that institution in co-operation with specialist staff.

2. undertake a specified art museum project related to collection management, interpretation, time management, and exhibition development.

3. research and write an acquisition proposal for an object for an arts cultural institution, or a related exhibition or public program proposal as determined by their supervisor

4. compile a structured report on their respective acquisition or related project, developing a sustained research argument, and communicating their report to their colleagues and peers. 

Acquisition, Exhibition or Public Program Research Proposal (3, 000 words) - 60% (Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4)

Reflective journal on activities undertaken during the internship, written up weekly for submission towards completion of the internship. (3,000 words). 40% (Learning outcomes, 1, 2,3)

Contact hours include

10 hours per week at the host institution over a 13 week semester and structured group discussions and group meetings with the Internship Convenor throughout the semester.

Students are expected to complete an average of 3 hours per week outside these contact hours.

This course is only open to students enrolled in the Master of Art History and Curatorial Studies degree.

Permission of the Convenor is required.

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Thompson, John, (ed.), Manual of Curatorship: a guide to museum practice, Oxford, 1992 and later editions.

Rigg, Judith (ed.), Issues in curating Contemporary Art and Performance, Bristol, UK, 2007.

Schubert, Karsten, The Curator's Egg: the evolution of the museum concept from the French Revolution to the present day, One-Off Press, London, 2000

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