Matthew  Skic

Development Intern

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

Winterthur, DE

• September-December 2015​​

  • Assisted with donor prospect research.

  • Input and updated donor information in Raiser’s Edge database.

  • Compiled data for Winterthur's research fellowship program and K-12 school programming.

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Curatorial Intern

Museum of the American Revolution

Philadelphia, PA

• May-August 2015

  • Researched the stories of free and enslaved African American men and women in Virginia during the Revolutionary War for inclusion in a planned touchscreen interactive.

  • Researched events leading up to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War for inclusion in a planned touch screen interactive. 

  • Recorded tunes from a Revolutionary War fifer's manuscript in the Museum’s collection using a a reproduction fife.

  • Modeled for a life-size tableau figure of a British Army soldier for inclusion in the Museum's main exhibit.

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Curatorial Intern

National Museum of American History

Washington, DC

• January-December 2013

  • Wrote object descriptions for the Robert H. McCauley collection of over 100 English transfer-printed ceramics.

  • Responded to public inquiries about the McCauley collection.

  • Photographed objects from the McCauley collection for the Mimsy XG collections database.

  • Updated object metadata in Mimsy XG collections database.

  • Wrote three blog posts for the Museum’s blog, O Say Can You See?

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Collections Management Intern

National Museum of American History

Washington, DC

• September-December 2012

  • Assisted with a large scale object movement project.

  • Developed proper and safe object handling skills for a variety of decorative arts.

  • Marked objects with accession numbers.

  • Fabricated object storage boxes out of archival quality corrugated board.

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