Alaska State Museum Studies Internship Project
2010
Museum Studies master’s students Molly Conley and Sarah Smith spent the Summer 2010 lending skills to two museums in Alaska. The program helps small institutions by providing them with interns academically and professionally trained in museum work. Molly and Sarah were placed at the Valdez Museum & Historical Archive and the Resurrection Bay Historical Society.
The internships were valuable experiences for them as well as significant contributions to the museums and communities in which they worked. Their specialized expertise allowed them to complete projects that the small volunteer staffs had not been able to accomplish. Their work also supplemented and enriched their studies at UF, and they were able to return to the museum studies program and share their practical experiences with their colleagues.