Work Experience

Our work experience placement offers secondary school students the opportunity to go behind the scenes to see what we do on a day-to-day basis and what our various programmes offer to visitors.

The placement takes place at either the Royal Observatory or the National Maritime Museum. 

Royal Observatory 

Work experience here will focus on astronomy and science communication. You will be involved in a number of things, including, but not limited to: 

• Creating posts for Twitter 
• Observing and evaluating school and public sessions 
• Writing a script for the Look Up! podcast 
• Meeting and talking to astronomers 

The successful applicants will spend one week in August at the Observatory. There will be six placements available, with two students each week. Due to capacity, we are unable to host students outside of this time and we are only able to host students studying full-time in the UK.

Find out more about work experience at the Royal Observatory

If you have a query regarding work experience at the Royal Observatory, please contact ROGEducation@rmg.co.uk.

National Maritime Museum

This placement is based at the National Maritime Museum within the Engagement team. There are additional opportunities to explore the Queen’s House, Cutty Sark and Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre. Some of the previous placements have involved:

• Working with the schools team, family programme, visitor services, library team, exhibitions and interpretation departments
• Undertaking focused project work (if possible, this will be tailored to your particular area of interest)  
• Learning new skills such as using digital audio recording
• CV writing workshops

This programme runs throughout the school year and has limited capacity. Applications for autumn term 2024 and spring term 2025 placements are now open. Please email learning@rmg.co.uk with 'School work experience' as the subject line and ask to be sent a link to the work experience form.