The Princeton University Art Museum offers academic year undergraduate research, planning, and graphic design positions for Princeton students and internships for Princeton graduate students. All applicants should apply for a specific project.
2025-26 Projects:
American Art:
The student will provide research assistance for exhibitions and projects, including an envisioned exhibition on historical images of the moon, and assist with provenance research on objects in the collections.
Ancient, Byzantine, and Islamic Art:
The student will work with the curator on provenance research on works in the collections and provide research assistance for upcoming exhibitions and projects. Research skills are necessary, and a background in Greek and Roman art and knowledge of ancient Greek or Latin are preferred.
Graphic Design:
The student will actively collaborate on graphic design projects that meet various production and creative needs. The following skills are required: working knowledge of InDesign, and basic or advanced graphic design and typography skills.
Curatorial:
The student will contribute to research and writing related to a new gift of twentieth-century Haitian paintings, seeking a graduate student with knowledge of Caribbean art history and global modernism, with preference for expertise in Haitian painting.
Exhibition and Gallery Design:
The students will contribute to design work and operations associated with our exhibition, collections gallery, and other installation projects for the Art Museum. Students interested in design or architecture with experience using VectorWorks and other software, and who value attention to detail preferred.
Modern and Contemporary Art:
The student will assist with research and writing related to upcoming acquisitions and exhibitions of modern and contemporary art (1945-present); graduate student preferred.
Prints and Drawings:
The graduate student will assist with various curatorial activities including cataloguing, provenance research, acquisitions, and possibly gallery installations. Archival research skills, knowledge of a European language, with a focus on prints and drawings, preferred.
Provenance:
The student will assist with provenance research activities across the Museum’s collections, with a focus on increasing digital access to provenance data; graduate student in art history or a related field with knowledge of at least one foreign language and interest in digital humanities and/or law and ethics of cultural heritage preferred.
Eligibility
Academic year internships are generally restricted to Princeton University graduate students, and academic year research, planning, and graphic design positions are generally restricted to Princeton undergraduate students, except in cases where projects require specialized expertise in a field not offered at Princeton. Applicants for all projects should have strong research and writing skills. Graduate students should obtain approval from their graduate supervisors and departmental administrators.
Compensation
Undergraduates generally work up to 10 hours per week during the semester; graduate students are not permitted to exceed 10 hours per week during the semester. Undergraduate students are paid approximately $16.50 per hour and graduate students are paid approximately $23 per hour.
Deadline and how to apply
By Friday, June 13, 2025, 8:00 p.m., all application materials, including recommendation letters, should be submitted electronically to PUAMacad@princeton.edu
Please include the following materials:
- Cover letter describing your interest in the program, the specific project for which you are applying, and how your training and expertise relates to this project.
- A C.V. or resumé.
- At least one letter of academic recommendation. This letter should be from a professor or instructor who is familiar with your academic work. Please note that letters from Art Museum staff cannot be considered as part of your application package due to potential conflicts of interest. Please ask your letter writer to include your name in the subject line of the e-mail.
- A transcript.
Selected applicants will be contacted for interviews. For additional questions, see our FAQs.
The graduate student academic year internships are made possible by an endowment from the estate of Joseph F. McCrindle.