Collections Intern

Collections Intern
2025 Rockpile Museum Association Collections Internship
An exciting opportunity is available at the Campbell County Rockpile Museum (CCRM) in Gillette, Wyoming. The museum’s member organization, the Rockpile Museum Association (RMA), is offering a paid internship opportunity for graduate level students who are looking at pursuing a career in the field of museums. This internship will offer a focus area of:

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Archival Organization and Cataloging
The 2025 Rockpile Museum Association Summer Intern’s primary project will be to help organize and catalog the Museum’s archival collection. The Museum has over 9,000 archival collections and 16,000 photos in the collection. The Intern will help in an ongoing project to reorganize these archives and assistant in our goal of making our collection available to the wider public through our PastPerfect Online program.  The Rockpile Museum’s online catalog is connected to the Digital Public Library of America and will soon be connected to a new project from Wyoming Humanities called the Wyoming Cultural Atlas.  Our summer intern will continue to digitize photos, input, and cleanup metadata, and publish photographs and catalog records online.

This opportunity will instruct the intern on the components of Past Perfect museum software, including categorization and cataloging. They will also photograph or scan artifacts, photographs, and documents, and prepare and upload records into Past Perfect Online. Proper handling, storage, and rehousing techniques will be taught. From time-to-time secondary duties will be required, such as front desk work, help with special events, tour groups, and other small projects deemed necessary by CCRM staff. The purpose is to expose interns to many elements of museum work. Ideas for projects are welcomed. Past interns have also created their own small museum exhibit, giving them experience in designing and labeling a museum exhibit.

The intern must be self-motivated, work independently, willing to learn and be able to work 40 hours a week. With makeup hours to be scheduled if taking time off during the standard work week Monday-Saturday 8:00am-5:00pm.

Other Requirements:

Transportation will not be provided; intern must acquire their own transportation.
The intern will be required to attend all RMA Board meetings, 4th Tuesday of the month at 3:00pm, held at the CCRM.
Payments will be issued via check every month as needed.
A written and oral final report will be presented to the RMA and the general public at the end of the internship, featuring what was learned and any special projects the intern has taken on during their time with the CCRM.

This is a paid internship opportunity with the following benefits:

Paid housing for the 10-12 week duration of internship. June-August, 2025.  Intern may begin in late May depending on housing availability.  Housing at Gillette College, see https://www.gillettecollege.org/housing/

Paid membership to a variety of organizations including:

*3-month pass to Campbell County Rec Center
*1-year membership to Campbell County Historical Society
*1-year membership to the Pumpkin Buttes Archeological Society
*1-year membership to the Rockpile Museum Association
*Tickets to a variety of activities and places of interest
And a monthly stipend of $1000
To Apply:
Fill out the Internship Application which can be downloaded below.  Submit all required documents:

Email is preferred: justin.horn@campbellcountywy.gov
Rockpile Museum Association
Summer Internship Program
900 W. 2nd Street
Gillette, WY 82716

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

March 24, 2025
RMA Internship Job Description and Project Description 2025
RMA Internship Application 2025 (DOCX)
RMA Internship Application 2025 (PDF)
Internship Brochure Trifold 2025
Questions?
Contact the Rockpile Museum staff at (307) 682-5723 or via email at justin.horn@campbellcountywy.gov.