Hiring: Public Relations Intern Needed in Museum

The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
Internships (Unpaid)

Please send all of your materials, either together or under separate cover, by the application deadlines listed below to:
John Shields
Manager of Docent and Internship Programs
Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
The Walters Art Museum is pleased to offer opportunities for qualified undergraduate and graduate students and those in between degree programs to intern in various museum divisions throughout the year. Based on a system of supervised learning, the internships enable students to understand how a museum operates and how to relate this experience to academic and professional goals.

Each intern serves for a period that corresponds to his or her institution’s semester system and, with the exception of an intensive three-week, full-time January internship, is required to serve for a minimum of eight to ten weeks. Interns work for a minimum of fifteen hours per week that are organized around the student’s class and/or work schedules. No stipend is offered for these internships. Students are responsible for arranging academic credit with their sponsoring institutions. The Walters seeks applications from undergraduate juniors and seniors or recent graduates majoring in art history, art education, museum studies, communications and public relations, arts administration, or information technology, who are interested in pursuing a museum career. Excellent research, writing, communication, and computer skills are required.

Public Relations Intern (unpaid) 
The marketing department is looking for public relations interns with excellent writing and critical thinking skills who are organized and detail oriented and can work independently in a fast paced environment.  Microsoft Word, Excel and Access computer skills are necessary.
 
Tasks could include:monitoring press coverage from traditional and untraditional media outlets, researching possible media outlets for special exhibitions, assisting in the drafting of short media advisories or fact sheets, website work, database work and compiling press kits. We are a very small office so there would inevitably be “other tasks as assigned.”

Please submit the following:
* Letter explaining your objectives for the internship and future career goals working in a museum
* Resume
* Official transcript
* Two letters of academic reference
Send all of your materials, either together or under separate cover, by the application deadlines listed below to:
John Shields
Manager of Docent and Internship Programs
Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Application deadlines:
Spring Semester: November 1
Summer Semester: March 19