Joseph F. McCrindle Curatorial Internship - European Paintings - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

The Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (COFAM) is offering a paid internship in the European Paintings Curatorial department at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

We are seeking an advanced undergraduate student who will work closely with curatorial staff at the Legion of Honor. The intern will assist with permanent collection documentation, research, and departmental administrative tasks.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities:

1. The intern will work closely with curatorial staff on permanent collection research and digital cataloging.
2. Typical duties may include entering information from paper files into the collection database, vetting existing records in the database, object-file review, and more in-depth bibliographic and provenance research.
3. To consult a wide range of scholarly sources, the intern may be asked to visit local academic libraries.
4. The intern's primary project will be to build and especially to update paper files for paintings identified by the curatorial staff as collections management priorities.
5. Throughout the program, the intern may work closely with staff in other museum departments including, but not limited to Conservation, Collections Information, Publications, Registration, and Digital.
6. The internship may also involve general administrative support for the European Paintings Department, as well as attending and assisting with special programs.

• Coursework in European art history strongly preferred. BA or expected BA, including coursework in art history, required.
• The Intern will work either:
  • A minimum of 40 hours per week from July 7 through August 15, 2025 OR
  • A minimum of 20 hours per week from mid-May through mid-August 2025

This internship is an opportunity to work in a position of responsibility in the European Paintings Department of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and contribute to the department's on-going research and documentation initiatives. This internship is geared toward interns with career or graduate school goals within art history, as the experience gained will be within a curatorial department.

Application Deadline: Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 9 pm PST

Final selection will be communicated by Tuesday, April 1, 2025

If you require an alternative method of completing this application please contact careers@famsf.org.

We recommend all new COFAM employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. Please contact humanresources@famsf.org with any questions.

COFAM is the Corporation of Fine Arts Museums and is the privately funded non-profit corporation which supports the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, a department of the City and County of San Francisco.

COFAM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination in all phases of employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are the city's largest public arts institutions and comprise the de Young and the Legion of Honor museums. The de Young, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and located in Golden Gate Park, showcases American art from the 17th through the 21st centuries, international contemporary art, textiles and costumes, and art from the Americas, the Pacific, and Africa. The Legion of Honor displays a collection of over 4,000 years of ancient and European art including Auguste Rodin's The Thinker and houses the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in a Beaux-Arts style building overlooking Lincoln Park and the Golden Gate Bridge.