Summer institute 2025, Collection Online & more
Date: July 12-19, 2025
Location: Amsterdam, NL and Boston, USA
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.
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 16 participants.
Over two weeks in and around Amsterdam and Boston, participants will closely interact with an interdisciplinary team of researchers, curators, conservators, educators, and scientists from the four organizing institutions. Participants will emerge from the Summer Institute with enhanced tools and perspectives for conducting innovative object-based research, and for using their expertise and enhanced collaborative and interdisciplinary outlook to increase the public appreciation for Dutch and Flemish art. They will be able to safeguard existing knowledge and share it in new, engaging ways that meet the needs of contemporary audiences. Important components include but are not limited to gallery visits, hands-on sessions in conservation studios, panel discussions, creative art making, and other activities that build a lasting international network among peers and established experts.
Applications must be submitted through the online application system by February 3, 2025. Candidates are encouraged to apply at their earliest convenience.