Internship opportunities
The RAMM Conservation team offers several training opportunities each year including:
- Short placements for individuals wishing to gain experience in order to apply to conservation training courses
- Short internships for conservation students who need to build up experience ‘at the bench’ as part of their conservation training
- Longer internships of three months to a year duration for conservation students with more academic experience, who need to complete a longer ‘in service’ placement as part of their training, or to gain practical experience immediately after graduation. Interns are expected to work closely with staff on a full range of conservation tasks, in line with our current priorities.
- Longer-term volunteering opportunities for local people who would like to get involved with helping us to care for the collections. Past and current projects include making conservation packaging for the costume and textile collections, repacking the photographic collections into conservation grade materials, helping to pack up the collections for moving to a new store, etc.
RAMM has worked successfully in partnership with institutions from as far afield as Brazil and Germany. Closer to home, we have hosted conservation students from UCL, Durham, Cardiff and Lincoln Universities.
- Ashley Lingle recently commented: ‘Working at RAMM during the redevelopment has given me the opportunity to work on a wide variety of conservation projects and an insight into the design work that must occur behind the scenes in order to achieve the amazing new displays.’
- Vicky Singleton said that: ‘During my time at RAMM I have enjoyed working within a friendly and supportive environment. Under the supervision of RAMM’s experienced conservation team I have worked across the collections to develop a diverse skill-set which I look forward to using in my future career.’
- Päivi Leppãnen: ‘As an international student I have found the department very welcoming and my work here has complemented my university course in conservation very well. I have extended my knowledge base by learning techniques and working with many materials that were previously unfamiliar to me.’
- Leonie Gärtner, Intern from Stuttgart University in 2003 commented ‘This internship inspired me to pursue a specialisation in conservation of ethnographic objects and enabled me to be and work where I am today. I will ever be grateful’
Contact us to find out more about conservation internships at RAMM.
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Päivi from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland, cleaning delft tiles 2011
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Vicky from Durham University adhering pieces of a medieval vessel 2011
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Ashley from UCL cleaning Gunthers dik dik 2010
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Conservator Andrew Hughes discusses overpaint removal tests on the Exeter Wyvern with Sarah from Erfurt University, Spring 2010
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Vikki from Lincoln, cleaning a Prairie Wolf for display, Summer 2009
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Catherine from Lincoln, repacking Works of Art on Paper, Summer 2009
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Lauren from Cardiff University cleaning a Cuvier's whale vertebra, Summer 2009
