

The Sector Research and Collections and the Research Center for Material Culture offer an Internship Program, which provides young academics, engaged members of the community, independent scholars and/or museum professionals with the opportunity to pursue further research and professional training within our museums. We mentor young professionals, welcoming the engagement so as to broaden our own perspectives on museum work. You may apply for an Internship or Research Associate position at the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, which comprises the Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam), the Afrika Museum (Berg en Dal), the Museum Volkenkunde (Leiden), and the Wereldmuseum (Rotterdam). Each museum or department recruits differently, but if you are applying to do an internship with the Curatorial, Collections, or RCMC departments, please read the below carefully.
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At the moment, we can only accomodate a very small number of interns per year (i.e. students affiliated with a university wanting to do an internship or stage to earn credits). The process has become rather competitive: thank you for understanding that we cannot accommodate all those who apply.
All interns are required to support both the research and programming activities of the RCMC staff and contribute to organizing RCMC events.
Interns should:
We accept Research Associates based on our research interests and curatorial and collection needs. If you are interested in a Research Associate position (i.e. you are not conducting an official internship with your university; you can also be an independent researcher), please email rcmc@wereldculturen.nl. All research associate positions are not paid.
THESIS PROJECTS
For MA, RMA and Ph.D. students wanting to do research on or about the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (that is any of the four museums comprise our institution), we very much welcome such projects and have supported them consistently over the past years.
That said, due to how incredibly busy our staff is, and how popular it has become to study our museum/s, at this point, we can only accommodate one project per year.
If you are interested, please send the materials to rcmc@wereldculturen.nl. The materials include:
If you are applying from the EU, there is no extra legal paperwork. If you are applying from outside of the EU and you are enrolled in a university program in Europe, you may also apply, as you have a student visa.
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Alas, due to summer schedules, we cannot accommodate summer internships.