Join the Seaport Museum Crew
The Seaport Museum is committed to promoting diversity and inclusivity in its workforce. We strongly encourage applications from members of groups that are underrepresented in careers related to museums. The Museum’s goal is to foster a collaborative and respectful work environment with a staff that reflects the diversity of both NYC and our audience.
Jobs
Senior System Administrator
Hands-on help desk support by responding to and troubleshooting unexpected Museum campus-wide issues as they occur. Resolve scheduled IT requests by coordinating times to fix problems or conduct planned maintenance. Contribute to creating standard operating procedures, document procedures, and resolutions to issues in a format that can be used as a reference for IT staff. Work with department supervisors to evaluate and propose hardware and software solutions to meet new business needs. Train Museum staff on workflow, file servers, and database systems. Provided technology relevancy and assured compliance with Seaport Museum policy. Liaise with other departments to determine their technical needs and find improvements that could be implemented for them.
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Internships
Archives, Collections and Exhibitions Paid Internships (On Site)
These internships allow you to become part of a small, dynamic team, participating in day-to-day workplace activities and projects with the guidance of full-time staff members of the Collections and Exhibitions Department. In addition to gaining extensive work experience in collection management and registration, curatorial research, digitization, and archive management, interns will be offered opportunities for professional development activities and will be provided resources that focus on maritime and New York City history, and the role of museums in society today. The Museum provides interns with the most current methods and tools that are relevant to the field, assigns projects that are tailored to support personal and professional growth, and provide space for critical dialogue.
Eligibility
College students, recent graduates, graduate students, and beginning professionals are eligible. The Museum encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines to apply. Internships require a commitment of at least two days per week, 10am–5pm. Interns are paid $18/hour on a bi-weekly basis and receive free admission to most New York City museums and employee discounts at the Seaport Museum’s Bowne & Co. Stationers.
Fall 2025 Internships (Applications opens in late July)
September 15–December 15, 2025 (14 weeks)
Archival Collections and Rare Books Intern
The intern will work on the Museum’s Archives and Rare Book Collection. In the archives, activities will include photographic archive processing (re-housing, folder inventories, finding aid creation, etc.), and scan and data cleanup projects. With the Library, activities will involve assisting with Rare Book Collection inventory and rehousing projects. If time and interest permit, Interns also collect ideas and draft content for the Museum’s blog and social media channels.
Collections and Exhibitions Management Intern
The intern will work closely with the collections and exhibitions team on a cross-medium collections survey exhibition–pulled primarily from the Museum’s permanent archival and special collections. Activities will include research, catalog and digitize works of art and artifacts in the Museum’s collection management database; prepare database records for online use as well as internal and external research requests; assist with condition report and re-house projects. If time and interest permit, Interns also collect ideas and draft content for the Museum’s blog and social media channels.