🇮🇹 Internship in Italy 🏛️ Museum Assistant at a UNESCO Memory of the World Museum 📜 (Erasmus+ grant)

Do you love art, history and cultural heritage? The Diocesan and Codex Museum in Rossano, Calabria, home to one of the world's most precious manuscripts, is looking for a Museum Assistant intern to help welcome visitors and bring its collections to life.

About the Museum

Opened in 1952, this was the first Diocesan Museum established in Calabria, and today it is organized around two main sections, one dedicated to the "Codex Purpureus Rossanensis" and the other to a sacred art collection, both enriched with multimedia devices such as touch screens, virtual page-flips and QR codes. The museum is famous for guarding the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage and inscribed in the "Memory of the World" list in 2015. It is a sixth-century evangeliary of 376 pages of finely purple parchment, written in uncial Greek with golden and silver inks and enriched by 15 miniatures, and is considered the most precious illuminated evangeliary in the world. The collection also includes works from the Magna Graecia era to the 20th century.

🏰 The museum is located in Rossano, the "Byzantine Pearl" of Calabria, a city whose monuments recall a glorious past at the crossroads between East and West, and which attracts tourists thanks to its sea and nearby nature reserves such as the Parco Nazionale del Pollino and the Parco Nazionale della Sila. It is run by the cultural association "Insieme per Camminare", which regularly organizes exhibitions, conventions, concerts, book presentations and educational activities, and offers guided tours across the plain of Sybaris.

What You'll Do

🎟️ Support the museum staff in managing the museum during opening hours and staffing the ticket office, bookshop and other facilities.

🗣️ Assist visitors and run guided tours within the museum in English and your native language.

🎨 Support educational activities, presentations and workshops, and create and develop educational resources for visitors, schools, families and special interest groups.

🌐 Translate brochures, catalogues and museum information into your native language.

🎪 Collaborate in the organization of events such as seminars, conferences and exhibitions.

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What They're Looking For

🎓 An educational background in history, art and cultural heritage or related disciplines, with experience in managing educational activities with children and teenagers.

💡 Creativity to develop new art initiatives and workshops, a strong ability to communicate verbally and in writing with visitors of different ages, interests and backgrounds, self-motivation and the ability to work both independently and in a team.

💻 Proficiency with Microsoft Office and the internet for research, and with digital technology, social media, mobile devices and other relevant media.

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What to Expect

🕓 You typically work 24 hours per week, with flexible shifts of 4 hours per day, in a friendly and dynamic environment that values initiative and creativity. It is a great opportunity to gain experience in the cultural field, and the museum assists you with finding accommodation in Rossano.

Who Can Apply

🎓 Students and recent graduates in Art and Design, Education or Teacher Training, or Languages and Philological Sciences. This is an unpaid internship, and it must be carried out within the framework of an Erasmus+ traineeship with grant support, so check in advance with the Erasmus Office of your university about the conditions, requirements and financial support.