Eugene V. Thaw Fellowship for Collections Cataloguing
The Eugene V. Thaw Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art provides early-career scholars hands-on training in cataloguing and researching European paintings using advanced museum systems.
Funder: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Due Dates: October 16, 2026
Funding Amounts: $53,000 annual salary + benefits; up to $2,000 travel stipend; 12-month, full-time appointment
Summary: Fellowship for emerging museum professionals to gain hands-on experience cataloguing European paintings at The Met, including research, provenance, and database training.
Key Information: Applicants must have an MA or be ABD PhD candidates; postdocs and senior scholars are not eligible.
Description
The Eugene V. Thaw Fellowship for Collections Cataloguing is a 12-month program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, designed to train early-career museum professionals in cataloguing works of art in the Department of European Paintings. The fellowship offers immersive experience in researching and documenting provenance, exhibition history, and bibliographic references, as well as using The Museum System (TMS), a leading collections management database. Fellows collaborate closely with curators, conservators, and cataloguers, and are encouraged to develop personal research interests related to collections cataloguing and art history. The position may also include opportunities for travel to research objects in the museum's collection.
