SKINNER MUSEUM: Closed
GiveStudent Guide Program
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Photo Credit:
Laura Shea
Student Guide Program at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
The Student Guide Program offers students an opportunity to work closely with Museum staff, learn about the Museum's collections, and give tours to campus, community, and K-12 audiences. You need not be an art history major to apply! MHCAM Student Guides come from a wide variety of majors and disciplines. Successful candidates will be intellectually curious students with a diverse range of interests and backgrounds.
The student guide program meets on Friday afternoons for the full academic year -- applicants must be able to meet on Fridays during both the fall and spring semesters and plan their schedules accordingly.
Applicants will receive student employment compensation for participating in the program. Please email Nina Frank (nfrank@mtholyoke.edu) with any questions.
Applications for the 2024-2025 academic year are due Sunday, April 14 at 11:59 pm.
Required documents will include the following:
- Resume (must include name, class year, and major/minor)
- Name of one faculty reference
- Answers to the following questions:
- Why are you interested in participating in the Museum’s Student Guide Program?
- What are some of your academic and extracurricular interests?
- What do you hope to gain from your experience as a Student Guide?
Events And Links
April 13, 2024 | Art Museum Galleries
Finding Sound in the Silence: A Close Listening
Sightlines Tour
Emma Harrison ’26, Student Guide
April 20, 2024 | Art Museum Galleries
The Golden and the Gilded
Sightlines Tour
Summer Pratt ’26, Student Guide
March 31, 2016
Confessions of a Museum Guide
Medieval studies major and public history minor Kristina Bush ’17 shares her experience as a participant in MHCAM’s new Student Guide Program. Reflecting on two semesters of weekly meetings at the Museum, field trips, research, and tour training, Kristina writes, “I feel as if I have found my place at Mount Holyoke in the Student Guide Program.”
