USGA Golf Museum and World Golf Hall of Fame Collections Intern

The USGA is a mission-based golf organization whose purpose is to unify the golf community through handicapping and grassroots programs; to showcase the game’s best talent through the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s Open and 13 other national championships and our museum; to provide unbiased global governance with The R&A through the playing, equipment and Amateur Status rules; and to advance issues important to golf’s future, with a focus on driving sustainability, accessibility and inclusion. As a nonprofit association, our work and our team are driven to act for the good of the game. The USGA’s headquarters are located in Liberty Corner, NJ, with a recently opened campus in Pinehurst, NC. For more, visit usga.org. About this role The USGA Golf Museum and World Golf Hall of Fame seeks a recent graduate or currently enrolled student in Museum Studies for a paid internship in the nation’s oldest sports museum. Founded in 1936, the USGA Golf Museum is the world’s leading institution for the collection, preservation, interpretation and dissemination of golf history. Since 1936, the Museum has connected golfers, sports fans and scholars with remarkable artifacts, documents, images and stories that chronicle golf’s rich history. The Museum Collection comprises more than 85,000 catalogued objects documenting the history of golf from its origins to the present. Included in the collection are artifacts from some of the most important moments in the history of championship golf. Highlights of the collection include Alan Shepard’s Moon Club; works of art by Rembrandt, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Roy Lichtenstein; a trophy from the 1904 Olympic games; rare and significant artifacts from World Wars I and II and an extensive collection of memorabilia from U.S. Presidents. The Museum Collections Intern will assist with numerous projects supporting the Museum Collection. S/he will gain valuable experience in several areas of collections care including hands-on work