Website Cleveland Museum of Art
Summary
The conservation department of the Cleveland Museum of Art welcomes applications for a 8-10 week graduate summer internship in Textile Conservation for summer 2026. The intern will join a collaborative and convivial team in caring for, studying, and treating objects from the Museum’s encyclopedic collection. The CMA maintains a full schedule of loans, rotations, and exhibitions, with associated assessment, documentation, and treatment needs. The conservation department is also committed to ongoing research and investigation of objects in the collection. The intern will have the opportunity to work closely and collaboratively with conservators in other specialties, collections care specialists, curators, mount makers, registrars, and exhibition designers, to gain well-rounded professional experience in the diverse responsibilities necessary for a textile conservator working within a fine arts museum setting.
Deadline: February 9, 2026
Eligibility
Requirements: Candidate should be enrolled in a recognized conservation graduate program. The candidate must be eligible to legally work in the US.
Compensation
Interns are expected to work 35 hours per week. Summer graduate interns will receive $19/hour for the 8- or 10- week summer internship and will receive a $5,000 stipend that can be used to cover relocation costs and/or travel
About
The Cleveland Museum of Art is renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection, which includes nearly 45,000 objects and spans 6,000 years of achievement in the arts.
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