This program was established in 2008 to provide Danish and American graduate students in history, social sciences, and/or litereature museum studies programs, and library schools with a "hands-on" experience as part of their educaiton. Interns may maintain a position for a period of three months to one year. The standard internship period is six months.   

Internships, for Danish interns, will begin at The Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Horn, Iowa. During the first four weeks interns will be introduced to American museum and library collection and cataloging protocols and be trained in PastPerfect museum record keeping software. They will then complete assigned projects which last a minimum of twelve weeks in order to demonstrate their mastery of both the software and collection and cataloging protocols.

During the final four to six weeks of their internship, each intern will travel to one of the following institutions or organizations in order to complete an assigned project:

• Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, Washington
• ElverhØj Museum, Solvang, California
• The Danish Church of Southern California, La Habra Heights, California
• Naver Club of Southern California, North Hills, California
  

The internship program for US students traveling to Denmark is still in the developmental phase with plans to begin sending UW interns to Denmark during the 2010-2011 academic year.

2008-2009 Interns     

	Yvonne Skov Grønlund. Graduate Student Roskilde University studying History and Cultural Encounters.
	Helle Hovmand-Olsen. Graduate student at the University of Copenhagen studying American Indian Languages and Cultures.
	Jon Gade Jeppesen.  Graduate student at Åarhus University

2009-2010 Interns  

	Ann Christine Brandt. Graduate student at the University of Southern Denmark in American Studies.
	Morten Birkerød Tofte. Graduate student at the Universityof Copenhagen in Modern Culture and Cultral Dissemination.
	Malene Vitus Østergård. Graduate student at the University of Copenhagen in Communication and Danish Linguistics.

2010-2011 Interns