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.
Buffington EC’24 cleaned museum storage and created supports for artifacts.
Ethreim EC’23 selectively cleaned, filled, and toned losses on painted plaster casts throughout the Museum.
Staderini (Univ of Venice) stabilized fragments of Egyptian painted cartonnage with toned tissue and paper pulp fills.
Konigs (EC’22 installed textiles, including a Bolivian mantle (shawl), on display in the Americas galleries.
Connolly EC'21 reduced dirt from the surface of a painting depicting the Jain Cosmic Man
Gonzales GSU'18 humidified a large Kuba textile to relax creases and reshape folds.
Best GSU'21 vacuumed sculptures on display in the galleries and in campus buildings.
Yu EC'22 inventoried emergency supplies and assembled response kits for galleries and storage rooms.
Shen EC'20 prepared a child’s mola blouse for display.
