Internship Opportunities

Fall, Winter, & Spring

Looking for a few good INTERNS or COMMUNITY SERVICE STUDENTS!!! Are you creative, energetic, love kids, working on your bachelors or masters? Do you want to make a difference, share your skills, learn new ones, in a flexible, dynamic place… then spend the semester or the year at the Children’s Museum at Holyoke. WORK STUDY options are also available with several of the local colleges.

Voted the 12th best Children’s Museum in the Country by Child Magazine (2002), this 25 year old museum is located in the heart of downtown Holyoke in Heritage State Park and features over 30 hands on exhibits for children birth to 12. We’re dynamic, interactive and have something for everyone, and that means YOU!!!!

This year we have the following openings:

Youth Development Interns
If you believe in giving impoverished youth opportunities to develop their educational and leadership potential, this is the program for you. Kids are involved in all the work of the museum: exhibit development, explainers, special community events and projects. You’d be working with their coordinator to provide more support to each youth as they work on projects.

Educational Interns
Afterschool Program – Work in one of the local schools with a museum educator to
teach art and science programming to elementary students. Come share you enthusiasm
and creativity.

SmallFry Days
Our long established preschool program needs teachers to guide our young visitors 2.9 to 5 years through mini art, music, literature and early science explorations

Science Sleuths & Exploration Station
Furry, slimy, stinky science – Creative, passionate science types are wanted to share their love of biology, chemistry, geology, physics and Bill Nye to engage and excite our 5 to 10 year old visitors. Or you can Join in development of kits and guided tours & workshops celebrating our newest room at the museum where young visitors are encouraged to explore unfamiliar worlds.

Marketing/PR/Communications Interns
If you want to experience it all here’s your chance from writing and sending newsletters and press releases, to designing program and exhibit brochures, and making info packets and passes. Help us let the world know what an amazing place this is.

Program Development Intern
We’re always looking for exciting, new ideas for educational programming for kids birth to twelve. Do you like to produce BIG events or even LITTLE ones? Festivals, celebrations, theater performances, magic shows, events for children and families - we need someone to help us design, plan, organize, and manage! This would be a perfect opportunity for those pursuing recreation management, leadership, community development, marketing, tourism or education careers.