Winterthur Research Fellowships

Winterthur Museum * Garden * Library invites applications for its
1998-99 research fellowship programs:

    Winterthur Research Fellowships: Available to academic, museum,
    and independent scholars, and to support dissertation research
    for one to six months with stipends of $1-2,000 per month.

    NEH Fellowships: Available to scholars pursuing advanced
    research for four to twelve months with stipends up to $30,000.

    McNeil Dissertation Fellowships: Available to dissertation
    researchers; $5,500 per semester plus expense allowance.

Winterthur's rich and varied library collections include half a
million imprints, manuscripts, visual material, and printed ephemera
that support research in the seventeenth through the early twentieth
centuries.  The museum collection includes 89,00 domestic artifacts
and art objects made or used in America to 1860.

We are interested in funding conservators researching historic
methods, the history of conservation, or other topics relevant to
our collections. Our 1997-98 awards included:

    Flavia Philp, conservation officer, The Wallace Collection,
    Hertford House, London, UK. Subject: The Manufacture and
    Development of 18th-Century Paints and Dyes: A Comparative Study
    of Europe and the United States.

    Brian Ramer, private conservation consultant, Baltimore, MD.
    Subject: The History of Preventive Conservation.

Application deadline for the 1998-99 year is January 15, 1998.

For an application packet, please write to:

    Gretchen Buggeln
    Director, Research Fellowship Program
    Office of Advanced Studies
    Winterthur Museum
    Winterthur, DE  19735
    302-888-4649
    email: pelli<-a t->udel< . >edu

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