Work placements
Placement opportunities for MA Museum Cultures students
Every year we organise a series of placements for our MA Museum Cultures students, in both national and in small, specialist museums. The placements are for two to three days a week over three months and students are supported by a named member of staff in the institution and by their tutor at Birkbeck.
Previous and current opportunities include:
Collections
- Biggin Hill Memorial Museum
- Jo Spence Archive, Birkbeck
- Kew Gardens
- Paintings in Hospitals
- Swedenborg Society
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Wellcome Collection
- Whitechapel Gallery
Curatorial
- Foundling Museum
- Freud Museum
- Guildhall Art Gallery
- London Transport Museum
- Science Museum
Education and engagement
- Alexandra Palace
- British Museum
- Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Fulham Palace
- Geffrye Museum
- INIVA
- London Metropolitan Archives
- P21 Gallery
- Saint Mary Magdalene Church, Paddington (heritage)
- St Paul's Cathedral
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Westminster Abbey
Photography
- Four Corners Archive
- National Portrait Gallery
Exhibitions
- BAFTA
- Museum of Brands
Digital
- Anaesthesia Museum
- Old Operating Theatre
- Somali Museum