Summary

The Mattatuck Museum offers the Philip Benevento History Internship as a summer opportunity to work in the museum archives. The Mattatuck Museum is both an art and a local history museum with manuscript, printed, and photographic archives dating from the late 17th century to the present.

The selected intern will work two days per week for six weeks during the summer, alongside the museum archivist/librarian. The goal is for the intern to produce a work of scholarship (either oral or written) drawing on the  resources in the museum archives. This year’s focus will be on processing and organizing the photo archive of the Republican-American. The Republican-American is a newspaper that serves the greater Waterbury area. Formed from the merger of the Waterbury American and the Waterbury Republican, the paper’s archive represents nearly two hundred years of local and national history. At the conclusion of the internship, the intern will create a finding aid to make the collection publicly available.

Key Details

• Duration: 6 weeks (flexible start and end dates in Summer 2026)

Deadline: April 24, 2026

Eligibility

• Applicants should have a major field related to history, urban studies, American studies, or library science.
• Applicants must submit a resume and a cover letter stating areas of research/study interest and career
  goals.
• A curious mind and strong written communication are especially desirable.
• Preference will be given to applicants who live in Waterbury or are current college students in Waterbury

Compensation

$1,000 stipend

About

The Mattatuck Museum is an art and regional history museum on the Green in downtown Waterbury, starting out as a historical society in 1877. The Museum opened its first display hall in 1912 and has been exhibiting art ever since. The museum collects and exhibits American art and cultural history – with a focus on the history of the Naugatuck Valley and the artists of Connecticut.

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