Exhibit Design Intern

Location: St. Louis

# Exhibit Design Intern Missouri History Museum - St. Louis, MO 63112## Overview Salary Range $17.00 - $20.00 Hourly Position Type Internship## Description The Missouri Historical Society is accepting applications from current undergraduate students, graduate students, or recent graduates who are interested in exhibit design and development and seek a year-long paid internship within the Exhibits Department. This internship is in person, with the possibility of some remote workdays, and reports to the Senior Exhibit Designer.

The Exhibit Design Intern will have the opportunity to contribute portfolio-building work to an exciting and fast-paced 2027 project schedule at a major museum, creating high-production-value exhibits through brainstorming exhibit concepts with project teams, working with and helping to develop 3D models of exhibit concepts, and working on design documentation for various exhibit projects, including detailed elevation drawing packages from exhibit 3D models and fabrication drawings.

Additionally, the Exhibit Design Intern will gain valuable exposure to exhibit development processes by attending exhibit development project meetings, project-related collections care meetings, accessibility meetings, graphic design meetings, media meetings, and fabrication and production meetings—as relevant to the intern’s design documentation work as well as the intern’s career interests and goals. These meetings will give the Exhibit Design Intern direct exposure to how the Exhibits Department collaborates with the rest of the institution and how design concepts and needs are communicated to and negotiated with departments across the entire museum.

The intern will also be invited to present their work to project stakeholders at such meetings.

The Exhibit Design Intern will also have the opportunity to attend meetings with our out-of-house design partners related to a major redesign effort for our largest permanent exhibit space. This is a unique opportunity to see how a major in-house/out-of-house collaborative process takes shape.
** Schedule
* * We are looking for candidates who can commit to a minimum of 20 hours per week, or up to 29 hours per week, for the 2027 calendar year (January 2027 through December 2027). Schedule specifics, such as days onsite and distribution of work hours, are flexible and will be worked out with the Senior Exhibit Designer during onboarding.
** The intern’s responsibilities will include (but not be limited to):
*** Develop exhibit drawing packages for a 6,000-square-foot exhibit, including floor plans, design elevations, and fabrication drawings for exhibit components, under the direction of the Senior Exhibit Designer
* Assist with exhibit drawing packages for up to two 1,000-square-foot exhibits, as needed
* Make and track changes to exhibit design models and design documentation (drawings) based on information and feedback gathered in project meetings
* Assist with design research on various exhibit projects, as needed
* Make creative contributions to exhibit project meetings and brainstorming sessions by proposing design concepts and solutions
* Collaborate with writers, graphic design, media production, exhibit fabrication, educators, and other disciplines across the institution as part of the exhibit project team
* Attend and assist with preparation for various project checkpoints, such as cross-department exhibit team meetings, accessibility review meetings, audio-description writer kick-off, artifact review meetings, graphic design kick-off, media meetings, fabrication and install meetings, etc.
* Attend other project meetings, including those for the permanent gallery redesign effort, as relevant to the intern’s career interests and goals, and as…