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Summary
The Penn Museum’s Summer Internship Program provides rigorous and impactful mentorship, training, and career development opportunities for undergraduates, recent grads, and grad students from any college or university. This nine-week, 300-hour paid internship program combines departmental placements with weekly lectures and field trips to provide interns with a comprehensive introduction to a wide range of museum careers.
Available positions:
- School Programs Loan Box Assistant
- Growth and Development Studies Research Assistant (Biological Anthropology)
- Collections Management Assistant (Biological Anthropology)
- Cultural Heritage Research Assistant
- Archives Assistant
- Digitization Assistant, Ur Digitization Project (Near East Section)
- Provenance Research Assistant
- Collections Management Assistant (rotating)
- Exhibition Development Assistant
- Marketing and Communications Assistant
- Public Programs and Events Assistant
- Family Education Programs Assistant
- Publications Research Assistant
Key Details
Travel assistance to and from Philadelphia may be available for interns who are relocating to the city for the summer internship program.
Deadline: February 8, 2026
Eligibility
- Current undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent graduates from any college or university are eligible to apply.
- Must be either be a U.S. citizen or international student with visa authorization to work for off campus employment (if a non-Penn student).
- Must be available on Wednesday mornings to attend the weekly Museum Practice Program and Thursday afternoons for weekly Museum Field Trips.
- Additional requirements vary by position.
Compensation
$17 per hour
About
Home to over a million extraordinary artifacts and archaeological finds, the Penn Museum has been uncovering our shared humanity across continents and millennia since 1887. In bridging archaeology (the study of objects made by humans), with anthropology, (the science of humanity), we chart a course for finding one’s own place in the arc of human history.