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
Marine Educator
As a South Street Seaport Museum Marine Educator, you will co-lead, alongside a lead educator, experiential programs onboard the schooner Pioneer and the tugboat W.O. Decker. You’ll bring a sense of the Seaport’s history and New York Harbor’s continued importance as an ecosystem and as an economic waterway to K-12 and college students, teachers, and educators, as well as public and family groups from around the city and around the world. You will engage with all kinds of learners of all backgrounds through inquiry-based, student-centered instruction, seeking to explore context and create connection in every way. You will communicate with visiting teachers and chaperones, your teammates, and other departments in a way that makes complex logistics look effortless and enhances the experience for all.
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Museum Educator
As a South Street Seaport Museum educator, you will bring to K-12 and college students, teachers, and educators from around the city and around the world a sense of the Seaport’s history and the Harbor’s continued importance as an ecosystem and as an economic waterway. You will engage with all kinds of learners of all backgrounds through inquiry-based, student-centered instruction, seeking to explore context and create connection in every way. You will communicate with visiting teachers and chaperones, your teammates, and other departments in a way that makes complex logistics look effortless and enhances the experience for all.
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Internships
Spring 2024 Collection Management and Archive 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 heritage, New York City history, and the role of museums in society today. Our goal is to provide interns with the most current methods and tools that are relevant to the field, assign projects that are tailored to support their personal and professional growth, and provide space for critical dialogue.
Internship Positions
Archives and Special Collections Intern (Filled)
Collections Management and Curatorial Intern (Paused to Summer 2024)
Summer 2024 Semester Internships
June 3–August 16, 2024
Applications for Summer internships will open in late March 2024. Check back for updates.
Internships are offered to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent graduates. Positions are part-time for a minimum of two full days a week, they are paid $18/hour on a bi-weekly basis. Interns also receive free admission to most NYC museums and enjoy employee discounts at the Seaport Museum’s Bowne & Co. Stationers.
How to Apply
Please email your cover letter, resume, and contact information for two references to the attention of the Director of Collections and Exhibitions. No phone calls please.