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 in both the fall and spring semester. Program participants receive four credits (two in the fall and two in the spring) for their work.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis in the spring semester for consideration for the 2020-21 program. Due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, this year's application deadline is extended to May 15 and interviews will be conducted via Skype in May and June.

To apply please submit the following documents to Kendra Weisbin, Associate Curator of Education, at kweisbin@mtholyoke.edu:

  1. Resume (must include name, class year, and major/minor)
  2. Name of one faculty reference
  3. A separate document that answers 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

Masamitu Kano, also known as Eishunsai (Japanese, d. 1765), Six-fold screen with scenes from Tale of Genji (detail), mid 18th century
April 27, 2019  | Art Museum Galleries
Performing Art(s): Capturing the Ephemeral
Sightlines Tour

Hailey Simmons ’19, Student Guide

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William De Morgan (British; English, 1839-1917), Iznik-inspired tile (detail), 1882-1888 design; 1898 production
April 20, 2019  | Art Museum Galleries
On Authenticity
Sightlines Tour

Kiran Penman ’19, Student Guide

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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.” 

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