2026 MoMA 12-Month Internship - Painting and Sculpture

Job description

About the 12-Month Internship Program Full-time, 12-month internships with stipends are offered for recent college graduates interested in pursuing a museum career. The focused departmental training is integrated with the fall, spring, and summer lecture series and complemented with financial provisions for the interns to create a research trip related to their field of interest. Additionally, monthly activities are designed specifically for this cohort to receive greater exposure to the museum and art fields. The Painting & Sculpture Intern will be a part of a larger cohort of interns from various MoMA departments. Twelve-month internships provide training in specific museum fields through close work with professional staff members, familiarity with modern and contemporary art through seminars and discussions, and an educational program that exposes interns to the workings of the Museum as a whole, while considering the role of museums in the broader cultural context. More about Painting and Sculpture: MoMA’s Department of Painting and Sculpture maintains a world renowned collection of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture with more than 4,000 works dating from the late n...