Testimonials
“The internship overall had a good impact on me. It helped prepare me for a career in museums and helped me decide that collections management is something I wanted to do in the museum profession. I also feel that it helped me with my volunteer work at the El Paso County Historical Society. A lot of the museum theory that I learned in…classes I was able to see in action.”
“My favorite experience at the [El Paso Archaeology] museum was being able to organize and work with the pottery. This was my first experience in moving artifacts and being able to work with them was eye-opening to future museum jobs I would enjoy doing. I also enjoyed organizing the pottery…before I had begun my task, the pottery types were scattered. I take great pride in knowing that I sorted them single-handedly.”
“Being an intern at the Tom Lea Institute has opened many doors for me and for my future as a historian and a student of museum studies. I had no intention of being hired so quickly into my internship…While I was only an intern, my main task was to organize the digital library..we release the images to people who need them…I was hired as the collections and education manager and to this point I have been learning many things and putting what I’ve learned in my museum studies classes to use.”
“When I am inside the [El Paso] museum [of Art] I can fell all my worries fading away. I am constantly learning and becoming more comfortable in surroundings that require special attention. My love for museums has not changed, but rather evolved. I have new consciousness of what it takes to be an art museum, or even a museum in general. I have become aware of many aspects that I had never even considered, like paperwork, cleanliness, time management, budget, and team work.”