Each summer, Historic New Harmony and USI's Center for International Programs offer a Global Engagement Internship in New Lanark, Scotland, the UNESCO World Heritage Site where Robert Owen developed the ideas he later brought to New Harmony.
You'll work at the New Lanark World Heritage Site doing actual museum and heritage work. Work areas include:
The New Lanark Trust is creating a public search room to provide better access to their collections: photographs, maps, drawings, documents. As an intern, you'll help develop this resource and support connecting the New Lanark collection to Historic New Harmony and Rice Library's collections. You'll be building bridges between international heritage sites.
The internship earns 3 credit hours from USI and connects directly to what Historic New Harmony does. You're experiencing international heritage work while deepening your understanding of Robert Owen's vision and how it traveled from Scotland to Indiana.
This internship works for students in multiple majors:
If your field connects to museums, heritage sites, public history or cultural organizations, this experience will be valuable.
Contact us at harmony@usi.edu for details about the application process, dates and what the internship entails.
"My time at New Lanark World Heritage Site was a life changing experience for me. As a undergrad, working directly in the archive at New Lanark and with the heritage manager, Jane, was incredibly beneficial for my degree, my work at Historic New Harmony, and my future. The skills I honed in the internship were helpful in the tours I gave at New Harmony and being a part of the program helped stir me in my future academic path as a graduate student at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. I'm so grateful for the chance to be a part of two amazing historic communities and contribute to the preservation of history."
~Rachel E. Schumm '16, Bachelor of Arts in History and a Bachelor of Arts in French Studies