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Re: Internship hourly rates

September 3rd 2026 PDT

Our hourly rate is $13.00.  * * * * *Susan Rowe * Landmark Education Office  Lubbock Lake National Historic Landmark  806-742-1116 *From:* talk@museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> on behalf of Rogers-Lee, Abigail akr8928@utulsa.edu [talk at museum-ed.org] <talk@museum-ed.org> *Sent:* Thursday, September 3, 2026 3:34 PM *To:* talk at museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Subject:* [talk] Internship hourly rates This email originated outside TTU. Please exercise caution! Hi All, ...Continue Reading

RE: Internship hourly rates

September 3rd 2026 PDT

Small municipal museum, Northern Colorado.   $16.30/hr for summer 2026. * * *Heidi Fuhrman* *Museum Education Coordinator* *Town of Windsor Museums* *Windsor Parks, Recreation & Culture* /116 5th St. / /Windsor, CO 80550/** Phone: 970-388-9440 recreationliveshere.com/culture /The Town of Windsor has moved to the *windsorco.gov* email domain. Messages from this address are official and trustworthy./// *From:* talk@museum-ed.org <talk@museum-ed.org> *Sent:* Thursday, September 3, 2026 2:33 PM *To: ...Continue Reading

Re: Internship hourly rates

September 3rd 2026 PDT

Hi Abbie,Please see the info about our summer interns here: https://www1.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/students/internshipsFor semester long jobs in the museum they start at $15/hr with a .50 increase per year. Hope this helps, Semente, Ph.D.Curator of Education and Public ProgramsPronouns: they / she, dr.DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE Tel 781-283-2045  Fax 781-283-2064www.davismuseum.wellesley.eduArtBySemente.comOn Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 4:30?PM Rogers-Lee, Abigail akr8928@utulsa.edu [talk at muse ...Continue Reading

Internship hourly rates

September 3rd 2026 PDT

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 what we offer to medium/smaller institutions as well. If you don't mind, would you be able to share what your institution's hourly rate for college-aged interns is? Thank you! Abbie Rogers-lee Learning & Community Engagement Coordinator Gilcrease Museum *Visit the Museum-Ed Web site for programs, archives, sample documents and more.* Follow us on Twitter @museumed, ...Continue Reading

Advice on Group Check-In for Overnight Events

September 3rd 2026 PDT

Hi all, My organization hosts overnight programs at Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ, where up to 400 guests partake in evening activities then sleep over on-site. I've been looking to streamline our check-in process and was hoping for some advice from folks who may have experience with events involving large numbers of guests.  The way the evening component of our overnights works is groups check in when they arrive at admissions whereupon they are assigned a group letter, which we use to give them a timed sche ...Continue Reading

Teaching with Monsters 2026 JFE

September 2nd 2026 PDT

Announcing the launch of the open-access Volume 13 of the /Journal of Folklore and Education/, "Teaching with Monsters: From Whimsy to Shadow," an annual publication of Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education. Read the issue at https://jfepublications.org/journal/vol-13.  You'll find an article about a  Philadelphia Museum of Art project, "Flashy, Friendly, Ferocious: A Case Study of Mythological Creatures in Museum Family Programs," by Leigh Dale and Te ...Continue Reading

5 Weeks Left to Register: CME Training Our Eyes, Minds, and Hearts: Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Care Professionals

September 2nd 2026 PDT

Dear Museum Ed Colleagues,There are 5 weeks left to register  for the unique, virtual course CME, Training Our Eyes, Minds, and Hearts: Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Care Professionals, offered through Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Medical Education. Spaces are limited.We welcome all clinicians (physicians, nurses, psychologists, technicians), medical students, medical educators, healthcare researchers, healthcare leaders, healthcare professionals of all stripes, and museum educators—anyone moti ...Continue Reading

Families Needed for Doctoral Research on Belonging in Art Museums

August 16th 2026 PDT

Dear Museum Colleagues,I am reaching out to ask for your help recruiting families for my doctoral research at Teachers College, Columbia University. My dissertation examines how intergenerational families experience belonging and exclusion in and by art museums, and how museum professionals understand their role in shaping those experiences.I am currently recruiting caregivers with at least one child ages 6-12 for family focus groups in the Chicago and San Francisco Bay areas. I am especially seeking both:[*]Famil ...Continue Reading

Public Programs Manager position at Historic Deerfield

August 13th 2026 PDT

Good morning!I am pleased to announce that Historic Deerfield is hiring a Public Programs Manager to join our  team in the Department of Museum Education. The job details are on our website here:https://www.historic-deerfield.org/employment/Please reach out to me if you have any questions about the position. Best,Claire Carlson-- Claire C. Carlson Director of Museum EducationDirector of ArchaeologyHistoric DeerfieldBox 321Deerfield, MA 01342413-775-7217 -- office413-559-8825 -- cell * ...Continue Reading

RE: resrouces to help me with teaching nudity in art

August 12th 2026 PDT

Hi Adrienne, We use the following resources when we introduce the topic of nudity in our core training for docents and museum guides. There may be some useful framing in these to help you. The Docent Educator (Spring 1993, Volume 2, No. 3): The Naked Truth or How to Respond to the Tell-Tale Giggle: https://www.museum-ed.org/the-naked-truth-or-how-to-respond-to-the-tell-tale-giggle/ The Art Institute of Chicago – Talking with Students about the Human Body and Nudity in Art: https://www.artic.edu/files/2620ae ...Continue Reading
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