Virtual Internship Opportunities
One of the key aspects of museum work is teaching and inspiring the next generation of museum colleagues. Mentoring students through internships is rewarding for all of us and offers a level of engagement for professional development that I know we can continue this summer despite the challenges posed by COVID-19.
Interns will work directly with the Executive Director, Curator, or Research Specialist on multiple ongoing projects in collections management, processing of archival collections, and preservation. Please download the pdf below for a more extensive explanation of the internship opportunities available.
To apply, please submit a letter of interest and your resume or personal impact statement to: Brigid Guertin, Executive Director, b.guertin@danbury-ct.gov
Documenting COVID-19
At the Danbury Museum, we’ve been collecting and archiving items that document our city’s past for more than 75 years. Our collection includes several buildings worth of archival materials as well artifacts that tell the tale(s) of our collective past, that inspire and inform the present and that we will be preserving for future scholars, researchers, students and Danburians.
We are currently living through a momentous, somber moment in our collective history. We need your help to document what is going on in your homes, at your jobs, and in communities across Connecticut. We want to hear your story. We want to know how you and your family are experiencing the current pandemic and “new normal.”
Below are examples of what we’re looking for:
Writings - letters, notes, emails, postcards, poems
Signage - images of window signs, directions, posted community information
Photos - of you, your family, your neighborhood, your street, YOUR Danbury!
Drawings, paintings, and other forms of art you’re creating and documenting
Short videos (limited to 500MB file size) for larger files please email to Patrick Wells, Research Specialist at p.wells@danbury-ct.gov.
Please stay safe when documenting these historic times. Do not put yourself in danger when capturing photographs or videos.
Why is this Important?
The Danbury Museum collects material that documents the full range of our lives in Danbury, CT because...you INSPIRE us, you INSPIRE the future. Documenting our community response to COVID-19 is a way to preserve the daily struggles of our stay at home community, our work from home community, our students, our critical care and healthcare workers, our first responders and our essential workers. From every perspective, what you are doing right now matters, to us right now, and to future Danburians.
So, when you email Collections Manager, Michele Lee Amundsen at m.amundsen@danbury-ct.gov or mail us your submissions to 43 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810, please include any or all of the following information: What else should we know about this object? Please explain who is in the photo, why you created this piece...basically all the information YOU would want to see to give context to a museum exhibition item or an archival file.
Please know that:
By providing my material to the Danbury Museum & Historical Society Authority (DMHSA) I hereby give the DMHSA a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable license to copy, digitize, reproduce, edit, translate, create derivative works, distribute, and publicly display and perform certain materials described below. I agree that the DMHSA may add the material to the collection according to the DMHSA Collection Management Policy and to make it available to researchers in a manner consistent with the practices of the DMHSA. I agree that the DMHSA may utilize any medium or media now existing or that will exist in the future to achieve the above-described purposes.
Thank YOU for entrusting the Danbury Museum with your memories, your stories, your art, your images. We take this responsibility seriously and will maintain your gift for future generations so they too may understand what it was like to be here, in Danbury, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
