Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA)

The Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA) is happy to announce that we are accepting proposals from prospective graduate student participants for the 2026 program. The program will be held next summer at the National Museum of Natural History. See below for internships offered and dates. We hope you will forward this announcement to interested students and re-post to relevant lists.

SIMA is a graduate student summer training program in museum research methods offered through the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History with major funding from the Cultural Anthropology Program of the National Science Foundation. The program offers two types of internships, Research Internships and Collections and Archives Internships. The internships are open to graduate students currently enrolled or recently graduated from a U.S. university, as well as U.S. students studying abroad. International students can be considered if they are enrolled in a university in the U.S. Members of Canadian First Nations are eligible under treaty agreements.
Application deadline - March 1, 2026

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20132914/summer-institute-museum-anthropology-sima