Winterthur Museum * Garden * Library

invites applications for its 1998 residential fellowship programs:

Winterthur Research Fellowships: Available to museum, academic, and
independent scholars, and to support dissertation research for one to six
months with stipends of $1,000 to $2,000 per month.  One fellowship
devoted to the history of business and technology is jointly sponsored
by the Hagley Museum and Library.

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 materials, and printed ephemera that support
research in the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries.  The
museum collection includes 89,000 domestic artifacts and art objects made
or used in America to 1860.  Research topics might include: history of the
family and domestic life, childhood, consumerism, pre-industrial crafts,
decorative arts, the history of travel and tourism, popular memory, and
many other topics in American art history, social and cultural history,
and material culture.

Winterthur is particularly interested in funding museum professionals who
wish to pursue catalogue or exhibition research or their independent
scholarship.

Application deadline for 1998-99 is JANUARY 15, 1998.

For an application packet, please write to:

Gretchen T. Buggeln
Director, Research Fellowship Program
Office of Advanced Studies
Winterthur Museum
Winterthur, DE  19735
(302) 888-4649
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