Please note: this internship is only available to current students registered on a degree scheme in the Faculty of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences at Lancaster University. If you apply for this role the information within your application will be shared with the recruiting organisation.
Lakeland Arts is an arts, heritage and culture charity. It runs exhibitions, events and engagement programmes across a portfolio of galleries and museums including Blackwell Arts and Crafts House, Windermere Jetty Museum and Abbot Hall.
The Curatorial Assistant Intern will support Lakeland Arts’ Curatorial and Participation & Learning teams in generating accessible and accurate content, labels, and narratives for collection artworks and objects.
These will be used for Lakeland Arts’ updated collection displays at Abbot Hall, and also our digital guide which is hosted by Bloomberg Connects.
Content could form the basis for exhibition labels, digital trails, narratives or highlighted stories from works in the collection. Content could take the form of written narratives, videos and audio interviews.
Key areas of focus could include creating content for objects being planned for display in Abbot Hall’s portraiture galleries, upcoming local landscape exhibition, working on our pop-up show for Kendal Pride, and helping deliver updates to our Ecology Gallery which responds to the Climate Emergency.
Please submit a CV (maximum of two sides) and a Cover Letter (maximum one side) both tailored to the role.
FHASS Students: CV & Cover Letter Appointment
You can book a 20 minute appointment with the Employability Officer for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences for queries you may have about your CV and / or Cover Letter. If you have a CV and / or Cover Letter you would like reviewing please upload to your booking at least 24-hours before the appointment time.
Preferred Start Date: mid-June 2026
End Date: 31 July 2026
Interview Date: TBC
Working Hours / Pattern: 70 hours in total, to be agreed between the successful candidate and Lakeland Arts.
Location: Hybrid Work (on site and remote)