Museum Internship

All students are required to participate in a museum internship either in the Netherlands or abroad.

The objective of the museum internship i

to put into practice the theoretical contents of the programme;
to give students insight on a management level into the coherence of the different policy-making bodies in the museum;
to function in a management team;
to acquire skills of working in a project

Students are expected to take initiative themselves to find a work placement in a museum for at least ten weeks between April and June. The internship can be extended to a longer period in consultation with the host museum. During the internship, it will also be possible to start a research project ( Opens internal link in current window thesis) related to the contents of the internship. The museum, the Reinwardt Academy and the master's student will formulate the concrete contents of the internship by mutual agreement.

Internship competencies

to interpret the functioning of the organization at a policy level;
to function as a professional in a heritage institution as regards attitude;
to interpret the different policy sectors of an organization and to discover their coherence;
to initiate innovative policies from a museological perspective.