Internship Heritage (60-80%) for 6 months
Department: Exhibitions & Heritage
Employment Type: Internship
Location: Zurich
Reporting To: Michael Schmalholz
Description
The FIFA Museum celebrates and safeguards football heritage and culture to share the magic of the game with the entire world. With exceptional exhibitions, unique original objects, fascinating stories, multimedia and interactive experiences as well as thought-provoking cultural and educational programs, the home of football history is a lively and passionate platform for fans and visitors to meet, connect and engage with each other.
We are looking for an Intern Exhibitions & Heritage (60-80%) for 6 months with immediate effect or by arrangement.
Key Responsibilities
- Handling rare collection items
- Electronically recording and documenting existing objects in the Museum database and possibly inventorying new objects
- Data cleaning of the Object Management database according to the previously created structure
- Enrichment of existing data sets
- Assisting in collection logistics
- Taking part in the design and implementation of various Museum projects
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Student of museology, documentation studies or a similar subject
- Experience or training in handling rare collections items
- Experience or training with documents / collections assets archiving systems (digital asset manager software)
- Previous training on collections management
- Interest in football and football history
- Interest in and appreciation for culturally and historically important objects and their management
- Familiarity with documents / collections assets archiving systems (digital asset management software)
- Fluent in English and German (written and spoken), knowledge of any other FIFA language (French and Spanish) would be an asset
- Good computer skills, meticulous attention to detail