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Minnesota Children's Museum Exhibit Fabrication Intern in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Minnesota Children s Museum s mission is sparking children s learning through play. We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion is integral to fulfilling our mission. As a community resource for thousands of families, Minnesota Children s Museum is dedicated to providing children with a fun, hands-on and stimulating environment to explore and discover. Minnesota Children's Museum's downtown St. Paul location has 74,000 square feet of exhibits space, in addition to being a leading producer of exhibit rentals for children's museums and having the largest collection of traveling exhibits on the road. The Exhibit Fabrication Intern will assist exhibit production staff in the fabrication and design of exhibits, installation of exhibitions, and exhibit repair and maintenance. Interns will be given the opportunity to exercise and strengthen their existing skills, to develop new skills of exhibit making, and to exercise responsibility, creativity and imagination. The internship requires hours to be completed at the museum. PAY: $15.75 per hour plus free parking or bus pass SCHEDULE: Requires 120 hours during the internship session (10-12 hours per week, January May 2025) ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS The exact duties and projects will be determined by mutual agreement of the intern and museum staff. - Assist in fabrication of exhibit components. - Assist in exhibit design process. - Install/uninstall traveling exhibits. - Clean, repair and maintain museum exhibit components. - Assist in maintaining exhibit shop. - All duties will be carried out with the direction and supervision of Exhibit Fabrication staff. ABOUT MINNESOTA CHILDREN S MUSEUM Located in downtown St. Paul, MN, we employ 55 full-time and 55 part-time employees and engage a variety of volunteers and interns. The workplace values that guide how we work together are: Play, Include, Grow, Serve, and Strive. We are dedicated to growing a diverse and culturally competent team of highly engaged staff and volunteers to reflect and equitably serve the vibrant community around us. We embrace differences in age, ability, color, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, national origin, race, religion, and sexual orientation. We strongly encourage the application of individuals from diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to: Black, Indigenous, and people of color; immigrants and refugees; LBGTQIA individuals; people with disabilities; religious minorities; and the elderly. MINNESOTA CHILDREN S MUSEUM SAFE PLAN Minnesota Children s Museum is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for all of our employees and volunteers. We have developed the SAFE Plan in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Every leader, manager, employee and volunteer are responsible for implementing this plan. Our goal is to mitigate the potential for transmission of COVID-19 in our workplace, and that requires full cooperation. The museum believes COVID vaccinations are a vital tool in protecting yourself and others. We do not mandate a vaccination at this time and encourage our staff to take preventative steps to slow the spread of COVID by staying home when you are sick, testing when sick or exposed, and masking when sick or exposed. Minnesota Children s Museum is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse work environment.

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