Summer Institute for Netherlandish Art 2025
Participate in an exceptional opportunity for emerging experts in the field of Netherlandish art to connect, learn, and develop! In the summer of 2025, the Rijksmuseum, RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA) at MFA Boston, and Harvard Art Museums will co-facilitate the Summer Institute for Netherlandish Art, a unique international program open to sixteen participants.
When: 12 July to 25 July 2025
Where: Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Boston, MA, United States
Focus: Netherlandish Art of the long seventeenth century (about 1560 to 1800)
Language: English
Open to: MA students, PhD candidates, and emerging professionals with fewer than five years of experience working in either a university or museum setting. Open to candidates of all nationalities with a background in art history or related fields within the humanities, as well as conservation and conservation science.
The programme
The 2025 edition of the Summer Institute is based in both Amsterdam and Boston. As a successful applicant, you will closely interact with an interdisciplinary team of researchers, curators, conservators, educators and scientists from the four facilitating organizations.
The program comprises gallery visits, hands-on sessions in conservation studios, panel discussions, art-making and other activities, all of which will help you become part of a lasting international network of peers and established experts. It offers the opportunity to study a wide range of media, including paintings, prints and decorative arts from the collections of the facilitating organization.
Participants will explore how museums and research institutions operate as public-serving platforms for art, ideas, scholarship and expertise in a time of intensified inter-organizational collaborations and re-evaluations of scholarly practice.
Applications are due by 3 February 2025.
For more information and to apply, please visit the MFA website.