2026 Galleria Borghese
Host Organization: Galleria Borghese
Website: https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/
Organization Profile: Galleria Borghese is a state-owned museum in Rome which includes 15 departments and approximately 70 employees (+ about 20 external collaborators). It operates in the museum and heritage industry and its current endeavors include the management and exhibition of its collection, which features ancient sculptures, bas-reliefs, and mosaics, as well as paintings and sculptures dating from the 15th through the 19th centuries. The works are displayed in the 20 frescoed rooms that, together with the portico and the entrance hall, constitute the spaces of the Museum open to the public. For additional information, please visit our website
City: Rome
Internship format: In- person
Internship Department: The Curatorial Department and the Technical Department
Department description:
- Among the objectives pursued by the Galleria Borghese’s Curatorial Department are ensuring the preservation, maintenance, restoration, and safe storage of artworks; organizing the permanent exhibition; maintaining archives and producing documentation; supporting scholarly research; coordinating loans and exchanges with other institutions; managing digital catalogues and photographic archives; and facilitating public access to the collection through exhibitions, educational programs, and research services.
- The Technical Department is responsible for the technical management, maintenance, conservation, and installation of the collections and museum facilities. It oversees both routine and extraordinary maintenance of the buildings and museum structures and is engaged in research and development of new technologies and methodologies to enhance the museum’s areas of application.
Project Description: We would like to hire two interns with a strong tech background and with a deep interest in developing new technologies as part of a Research Project in the Vatican Apostolic Archive aimed at making art history more understandable to future generations through the creation of digital environments. In particular, one is meant to assist the four young scholars and the coordinator of the Project, Professor Gianni Venditti of the Vatican Apostolic Archive, from a digital point of view. The idea is to develop the incorporation of data from archival research into a new platform that would allow, in the future, user-friendly online research. The second internship would explore the possibility of visualizing the results of the research with the construction of a virtual digital environment, in which first scholars and then visitors would experience the Galleria Borghese through history. It would be great to be able to make history visible, and to read the diverse displays in relation to taste, acquisition and art moving in the past centuries.
Therefore, we are seeking motivated Interns to support our work at the intersection of art history, archival research and multimedia technologies; Interns with a background in the interdisciplinary fields of Digital (DH) and Public Humanities (PH), who can apply digital and computational methods to the study of humanities disciplines such as history, literature, and art. In fact, the interns would support our work across several innovative areas, including Generative AI (text-to-text and text-to-image), user interface design, web design, AI tools, digital communication, prompt editing, Machine Learning (ML), Large Language Models (LLMs) and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
Number of Opening(s): 2
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (Monday to Friday, June 15th - August 7, 2026) 35 Hours a week
Work Attire: Business Casual
Local Language: Italian
Local Language level needed: Basic reading, writing, and speaking (one-year level at Stanford)
Additional desired intern qualifications: Creativity and innovative thinking, as well as strong technological proficiency, would be an advantage. Basic knowledge of Italian would be an asset.
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