This document discusses a strategic commissioning project that places initial teacher training students in museum and archive internships. The goals are to introduce future teachers to using cultural collections in their teaching and help museums understand teacher needs. Trainees complete short research placements to develop resources mapping collection items to the curriculum. Longer placements involve creating adaptive resources and delivering sessions. Feedback found the placements improved trainees' understanding of how museums and archives can aid teaching. Host institutions benefited from the students' work and fresh perspectives on their collections.