The Missouri Historical Society has an active internship program available in the Fall, the Spring, and the Summer semesters. For the most part, the selected interns are college juniors or above, although occasionally exceptional underclass students are accepted. MHS is currently offering internships in Archives, Exhibits, Community Education and Events, Library, Media Collections, Museum Collections, Special Projects, and Publications. We likewise are offering an intern position in collaboration with the Association of Midwest Museums. Our staff is deeply experienced in supervising interns in the professional standards of their fields.

We offer three categories of internships:

• Academic internships. The intern is supervised by a MHS staff professional but must take a corresponding course in his or her college, university, or graduate school for credit. A faculty member monitors the student's work and assigns a grade. This is the most common form of internship.
• Paid internships. A limited number of paid internships are offered each summer. The intern works on a funded project with an MHS staff professional; no academic credit is given.
• Non-academic internships. The intern does the work and meets the expectations of an academic internship but does not take a corresponding academic class. The non-academic internship is run through the Internship Office, and any position available as an academic internships can be taken as a non-academic internship as an alternative.

Academic and non-academic internships require a minimum of 150 hours of onsite commitment over the course of a semester; paid internships require a work period of 10 full-time weeks, amounting to 350 hours.