For the past five years, we have run a program in which we visit local libraries, provide a hands-on program, and offer participants a free "field trip" to the museum, where we provide tickets and transportation, to lower the barrier to community visitation across our city. It has been somewhat successful, but it requires the family to be available on the days we offer the field trip.  We want to make it easier for families to visit, so we are considering pivoting to a model where participants receive ...Continue Reading

Creating organizations that are culturally competent is not an altruistic wish, but rather a business strategy to ensure our workforce reflects, represents, and is responsive to the communities with whom we collaborate and serve and perhaps more critically, how we shape our programs, exhibits, and collections. While cultural competency has long been incorporated into the medical disciplines and the fields of psychology and social work they have been slow to enter the cultural heritage professions. Join Helen Wong ...Continue Reading

The Minnesota Zoo Foundation is looking for ideas and inspiration for onsite donation kiosks, especially ones that are interactive. We have a coin vortex wishing well that our guests love. Our other two donation kiosks are due for replacement.     Kiosks or interactives that show guests their collective impact resonate well with our audience (think along the lines of a thermometer or counter that increase every time there’s a donation). We’re open to digital kiosks, mecha ...Continue Reading

Ever wanted to know how to tell stories and construct effective exhibition panels? If so, this course is for you. We will focus on providing you with tips on how to research, develop, and structure content. Plus, how to transform your story into effective exhibition panels and labels. As we delve into all stages of the process, strategies will be provided to build sustainable frameworks for this type of content development. Participants will be encouraged to generate and refine their own ideas for content and exhibiti ...Continue Reading

Hello Museum Educators, My name is Morgan Hollemans, and I am a graduate student in the Master of Museum Education program at the University of British Columbia Vancouver. I am conducting a research study titled /Anti-Racist Pedagogies in United States Art Museums’ Educational Programs: Exploring the Role of Art and Empathy/, which aims to better understand how art museum educators employ art to foster empathy as a strategy to support anti-racist pedagogies among pre-K-12 students within contexts of othering discou ...Continue Reading

Good morning,We're also in the $15-17/hr range here at UMMA for undergraduate students.Lisa--Lisa Herbert Borgsdorf (she/her)Interim Deputy Director for Public Experience & LearningOffice: 734-615-9815umma.umich.edu   |   Feel Free. The University of Michigan is located on the territory of the Anishinaabe people. The Ann Arbor campus currently resides on land ceded through the Treaty of Detroit in 1807. Additionally, in 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land ...Continue Reading

$15 now, moving to $17 next year as that will be the minimum wage in our state*Ms. Timshel Purdum *  Virginia C. Ellett Deputy Director for Education Science Museum of Virginia 804.864.1415 smv.orgSchedule a meeting with meOn Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 4:38?PM Rogers-Lee, Abigail akr8928@utulsa.edu [talk at museum-ed.org] <talk@museum-ed.org> wrote: Hi All, I'm evaluating our museum's hourly rate for our college-aged interns. I'm finding numbers for larger institutions but I'm hoping to compare w ...Continue Reading

The Barnes Foundation (medium-sized art museum in Philadelphia) pays $15/hour to undergraduate interns and $18/hour to graduate interns. Thanks, Stephanie *Stephanie Stern *** (she/her) Director of School Programs - T  215.278.7313 sstern@barnesfoundation.org - *The Barnes Foundation* 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19130 barnesfoundation.org *From:* talk@museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Sent:* Thursday, September 3, 2026 4:38 PM *To:* talk at museum-ed. ...Continue Reading

Our part time hourly starting rate is 13.75. ? ? *Greg Miller* Director of Education and Training gmiller@sciencemuseumok.org 405-568-8951 *From:* talk@museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> on behalf of Lubbock Lake Landmark Education Office landmark.education@ttu.edu [talk at museum-ed.org] <talk@museum-ed.org> *Sent:* Thursday, September 3, 2026 4:19 PM *To:* talk at museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL]Re: [talk] Internship hourly rates Our hourly rate is $13.0 ...Continue Reading

Summer 2026 $14/hr   *Kim Albracht* Education Coordinator | Gilchrist Learning Center Sioux City Art Center | City of Sioux  City 225 Nebraska Street, Sioux City, IA 51101 T: 712-279-6580 | kalbracht@sioux-city.org www.siouxcityartcenter.org | Upcoming Events *From:* talk@museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Sent:* Thursday, September 3, 2026 4:21 PM *To:* talk at museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Subject:* Re: [talk] Internship hourly rates *CAUTION:* This email originated from *OUTSIDE* of th ...Continue Reading