The National Museum of Industrial History (NMIH) in Bethlehem has appointed its first Barnette Intern.
A Moravian University junior with a long love of history, Brendon Ward (Class of 2024) will spend about 20 hours a week learning the many aspects of the museum’s mission. The internship comes with a stipend to support student research and is endowed through the support of Curtis “Hank” Barnette, chair emeritus of the museum’s board of directors and of Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and his wife Joanne Barnette.
Ward is helping to catalog the hundreds of thousands of documents, photographs, films and other records of the past at the museum’s archives and working on updating the museum’s ever-evolving “Forging Community” exhibit. A native of Emmaus, Brendon selected Moravian for his college career because of his ability to self-design a major that focuses on history, archeology and anthropology. A summer 2021 archeological dig in Denmark fueled his passion to “dig” into the past to preserve and learn from it.
The Barnette Internship is open to college students with interests in history, museums and related fields. The next application deadline is May 31, and a full description can be found on the NMIH website.
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