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 (
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.
