Your Future Awaits!
DAR offers internships that provide a unique opportunity for college students to gain hands-on experience in various facets of work with a well-established non-profit organization. While we typically time our internships around college semester schedules, opportunities are posted throughout the year as projects become available.
Start your career journey at DAR and gain meaningful experience, interact with a diverse group of team members, and participate in challenging and rewarding work. Interns are valuable members of the DAR team and contribute significantly to organizational initiatives that advance our strategic mission and vision.
If no active internships are listed below, please check again in the future.
We have the following opportunities available. Each internship announcement will include instructions for how to apply.
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The NSDAR Archives, located at DAR Headquarters in Washington, D.C., is seeking a 2024 summer intern.
The internship’s primary objective will be to inventory and rehouse the NSDAR’s Archives’ Objects Collection. Besides rehousing the items, this assignment will require the intern to utilize our collections’ catalog software system, Proficio, to update locations and standardize descriptions when appropriate. As time allows, the intern may also gain experience researching, answering DAR history reference questions, and contributing to DAR social media.…
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Description
Under the supervision of the Curator of Exhibitions, the intern will independently compile materials and produce content for the 2025 “Fighting for Freedom: Black Craftspeople and the Pursuit for Independence” exhibition interactives. Tasks may include:
- Researching maker biographies and objects
- Identifying historic tools from photos and writing interpretive text
- Creating a plan for exhibition design
- Writing interpretive text
The DAR…
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Description
The Museum Education intern will work with the Education department on projects pertaining to the museum and its collections. Tasks may include:
- Developing content for the museum’s collections app – SmARTify – which includes audio tours, exhibitions, and getting existing collections items loaded into the platform.
- Updating existing and creating new outreach presentations for the DAR Museum Correspondent Docent program, including research and design.
- Assist with the creation of new…
