Internship/Volunteering program at the General Direction of Museums in Buenos Aires

  Argentina

• Buenos Aires: 
Buenos Aires

Term: Throughout the year 
Durations of Program: 9-12 weeks and 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 9-12 weeks
Dates: throughout the year

Description: The general Direction of Museums encourages public access to its collections, organizes artistic and cultural events and promotes, recovers and preserves museums' patrimony.

Museums under its direction are: Museo de la Cuidad, Museo Histórico Cornelio de Saavedra, Museo de Esculturas Luís Perlotti, Museo de Arte Popular José Hernández, Museo Casa Carlos Gardel, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco, Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sivori, Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta, Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken.

The general Direction of Museums offers to international students, internships in museums so that they improve their knowledge, widen their professional skills and learn to understand customers' needs.

The internship opportunities are various and depend on each one's interest.

Highlights: Main tasks:

- Research
- Museums guided visits in foreign languages for tourists
- Language teaching for museum guides
- Web pages translations
- Special tasks organized on the basis of the ongoing projects and the interns' interest

Qualifications: Requisites:

- Medium Spanish level
- Knowledge in other languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese
- At least a 2-month commitment
- High studies in art history, history, social sciences...
- Medical, social liability and accident insurance

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: 400/month

- Taxi round trip from the airport to your apartment
- Housing in a shared or individual room in the center of the city, all furnished with WIFI and TV
- Welcome pack
- Full time assistance
- Presence on place of work on the first and the last day of the internship
- Argentina Exchange advantage card that offers you discounts in various places in the city
- Monthly paid cellular, 100 free minutes and unlimited communication with every Argentina Exchange members
- Monthly donation to the host NGO

Experience Required: no

Age Range: 19-45

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Argentina Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Resume
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Exit Debriefing Abroad

Argentina Exchange's Mission Statement: Argentina Exchange is an Organization dedicated to satisfy the necessities of the international students during their stay in Buenos Aires and in the rest of Argentina. Forged and integrated by students with experiences of interchange and works abroad. It offers customized integral services for the necessities of each young person, includes the totality of the services that a foreign student needs when arriving in Argentina. From the arrival of the young person in the country, Argentina Exchange is in charge to attend him at any moment and integrating him to the international movement in the city and inserting it within the Argentine culture. Its services: airport pick up and transfer, accomodation search, search of internships, programs of volunteering, courses of languages and management of courses in different disciplines. Offers an ample agenda in organization of events, exits and trips, an attendance 24hs by any type of consultation or necessity of the young person.

Year Founded: 2007