The Collections Database is a unique project of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. This arduous task could not have been accomplished without the help of museum volunteers and international interns. Under the aegis of Dr. Allison Kupietzky, Collections Database Manager, an internship at the Israel Museum assisting in the collections database project has been recognized by universities in the United States and Europe as work in the area of museology and computerization of collections. The museum adheres to international standards and takes part in Pan-European projects, such as Europeana and Wikipedia. Additionally, the Database Project has been recognized by universities in the United States and Europe for fieldwork and internship in the fields of museology and computerization of collections. To this end, students from the University of Toronto; Barnard College; Stern College; Queens College; the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Cornell University; City University of Hong Kong; and University of Milan participated in 2-6 month summer internships at the Museum After committing to a minimum of 6 weeks, the intern receives an intense weeklong training period in the museum workflow, procedures and database technology. The intern is partnered with one of the museum departments using the database. A curator then guides the intern on the individual needs and methods employed by the department in cataloguing their collection. The collection database team continues to support the intern through his/her stay. Interns are trained in scanning, database entry, working in curatorial and the Chief Registrar's departments. They have direct contact with the curators, learn how to work as a team with curators of the various departments in the Museum, as well as become 'self-starters' using their newly achieved skills to also work independently, and most of all contribute to the great task at hand-digitizing all the while gaining marketable skills for the future. This symbiotic relation of ideas, concepts and skills has proven a wonderful basis for cross-cultural and multilingual experience. Many of our past interns have benefitted from their experience at the museum, having acquired positions in art galleries and auction houses among others. Past interns have gone on to become successful art bloggers, been made Director of Art development of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, and achieved a position at the Joint Distribution Committee archive.