Opportunities

Construction Bidding Opportunity:

Liberty Hall Museum has received a grant from the New Jersey Historic Trust for the 1882 Carriage House.

The project will restore windows in the museum’s historic Carriage House. The window restoration project proposed in this grant addresses much-needed preliminary work to lay the necessary groundwork that will allow the larger plan for the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the Carriage House to move forward. The existing windows are wood double-hung windows with single-pane glass. We anticipate that approximately 29 windows will be restored, with limited repointing done around the exteriors of the windows. The windows would not be replaced with new windows but would be temporarily removed, shop restored, and reinstalled. All windows would have newly painted exteriors and would be reglazed. The project also includes the preparation of documents for the window restoration. The proposed project is a preliminary part of a plan that focuses on the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of Liberty Hall’s Carriage House.

We are now accepting bids for this project. For any inquiries about this project and obtaining pre-qualification forms, please reach out to Jeff Eckert, Director of Buildings & Grounds, at jeff.libertyhall@kean.edu

The deadline to receive bids is Friday, February 28, 2025.

Fellowships:

Our May Kean Raynolds Graduate Museum Studies Fellow is offered to graduate students in a master’s program in Museum Studies, History, or a related field.

The fellowship is designed to provide a mentored professional development opportunity to graduate students seeking careers within a museum setting. Fellowships are tailored to the student’s individual educational goals and provide opportunities to explore multiple areas of museum work while gaining specialized skills and experience. Projects may include designing, developing, and delivering innovative programming for diverse audiences, collections management, exhibit development, and marketing design and implementation based on the fellow’s interest.

Fellows will work approximately 30 hours per week during the 13-week fellowship. Work hours are flexible and will be scheduled during museum operating hours. The fellowship will begin in June 2025 and continue through August 2025. The museum is easily accessible by New Jersey Transit trains on the Raritan Valley line and New Jersey Transit bus lines.

To apply, please submit the following to Maryellen McVeigh at marymcv@kean.edu by April 30, 2025. Please indicate May Kean Raynolds Fellowship in the subject line.

• Full curriculum vitae of education, professional experience, honors, awards, and publications.
• A statement, not to exceed 1,000 words, specifying what you wish to accomplish during the fellowship period and detailing how you can utilize the Museum’s resources to accomplish your goals.  The statement should also discuss issues you wish to investigate during the fellowship period, how this research is relevant to the field, and how it will advance the work of Liberty Hall Museum.
• Two letters of recommendation

Fall 2025 Education Internship

Volunteers:

We are always looking for volunteers to join our team! Our volunteer opportunities are in our public tours, school programs, and special events. If you are interested in an area not listed, please let us know. For more information, contact the museum at libertyhall@kean.edu