Internships provide experience with collections maintenance, preventive care, disaster preparedness, and conservation treatment. Under the supervision of staff conservators, interns number and rehouse objects; participate in gallery maintenance and pest monitoring; undertake treatment steps such as stabilization, cleaning, and repair. Hands-on work in the lab is supplemented by readings and occasional short assignments.
![Audra Buffington is leaning down with a backpack vacuum on her back cleaning the museum storage area](/sites/default/files/2024-02/Audra%20Buffington.jpg)
Buffington EC’24 cleaned museum storage and created supports for artifacts.
![Intern Elise sits on the floor cleaning and repairing a painted plaster cast in the museum](/sites/default/files/2024-02/Elise%20Ethreim.jpg)
Ethreim EC’23 selectively cleaned, filled, and toned losses on painted plaster casts throughout the Museum.
![Intern Ludovica Staderini shown sitting at the table in a lab with an instrument in her hand cleaning an object](/sites/default/files/2024-02/Ludovica%20Staderini.jpg)
Staderini (Univ of Venice) stabilized fragments of Egyptian painted cartonnage with toned tissue and paper pulp fills.
![Claudia Konig installs a textile in the Art of the Americas galleries](/sites/default/files/2024-02/Claudia%20Konigs.png)
Konigs (EC’22 installed textiles, including a Bolivian mantle (shawl), on display in the Americas galleries.
![Student working on textile](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Anna%20Connolly%20tile.png)
Connolly EC'21 reduced dirt from the surface of a painting depicting the Jain Cosmic Man
![Student steaming textile](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Clara%20Gonzales%20tile.png)
Gonzales GSU'18 humidified a large Kuba textile to relax creases and reshape folds.
![Student with Vacuum](/sites/default/files/2022-02/elena%20Best%20tile.png)
Best GSU'21 vacuumed sculptures on display in the galleries and in campus buildings.
![student with supplies](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Kelyu%20Yu%20Tile_0.png)
Yu EC'22 inventoried emergency supplies and assembled response kits for galleries and storage rooms.
![Student working on textile](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Jessie%20Shen%20tile.png)
Shen EC'20 prepared a child’s mola blouse for display.