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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This internship with available arts cultural institutions in the ACT is a prestigious and demanding program, in which the internship convenor places Art History and Curatorship Honours students. The internship is designed to provide the student with practical insights into the activities and the workings of an art museum or art gallery. The specific nature of the contact work will depend on the requirements of the art museum specialist supervisor, who may include curators, research program managers, registrars, art educators and learning and access programmers. The internship aims to provide an opportunity for learning about the field in preparation towards an art museum career.
Research paper on a topic related to collection management, 2500 words
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Reflective journal on activities undertaken during this- semester, written up towards completion of the semester internship, 2500 words
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
130 hours of total student learning time made up from a combination of attendance at internship placement, workshops, and applied research and writing. Students will undertake 120 hours (20 days) of internship placement in an arts and cultural institution in Canberra. The structure and delivery of contact hours is dependent on internship placement.
Not applicable. Preliminary Reading Thompson, John, (ed.), Manual of Curatorship: a guide to museum practice, Oxford, 1992 and later editions. Rigg, Judith (ed.), Issues in curating Contemporary Art and Performance, Bristol, UK, 2007. Schubert, Karsten, The Curator's Egg: the evolution of the museum concept from the French Revolution to the present day, One-Off Press, London, 2000