The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers annual resident fellowships in art history to qualified graduate students at the predoctoral level as well as to postdoctoral researchers. Projects should relate to the Museum's collection. The fields of research for art history candidates include Asian art, arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, antiquities, arms and armor, costumes, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, textiles, and Western art. Some art history fellowships for travel abroad are also available for students whose projects involve firsthand examination of paintings in major European collections.

The application deadline for art history fellowships awarded for the 2009–2010 year is November 7, 2008. Learn more about applying for an art history fellowship at the Met.

The Bothmer Fellowship

Chester Dale Fellowships

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships

J. Clawson Mills Scholarships

Polaire Weissman Fund

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowships

Theodore Rousseau Fellowships

Annette Kade Fellowship

The Douglass Foundation Fellowship in American Art

The Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellowship

The Hanns Swarzenski and Brigitte Horney Swarzenski Fellowship

The Bothmer Fellowship: Awarded to an outstanding graduate student who has been admitted to the doctoral program of a university in the United States and who has submitted an outline of a thesis dealing with either Greek or Roman art. Preference will be given to the applicant who, in the opinion of the Grants Committee, will profit most from utilizing the resources of the Department of Greek and Roman Art: its collections, library, and photographic and other archives, and the guidance of its curatorial staff.

Chester Dale Fellowships: Intended for individuals whose fields of study are related to the fine arts of the Western world and who are preferably American citizens under the age of forty. The grants, which typically cover periods from three months to one year, are for research at the Metropolitan Museum.

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships: Provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Fund for promising young scholars with commendable research projects related to the Museum's collections, as well as for distinguished visiting scholars from this country and abroad who can serve as teachers and advisers and make their expertise available to catalogue and refine the collections. Usually a fellowship will be given for a maximum of one year, most of which should be spent at the Metropolitan Museum. Applicants should have received the doctorate or have completed substantial work toward it. Fellowships for senior scholars are also available for as short a term as one month.

J. Clawson Mills Scholarships: Awarded for up to one year's study or research at the Museum or abroad in any branch of the fine arts relating to the Metropolitan Museum's collection. These scholarships are generally reserved for mature scholars of demonstrated ability.

Polaire Weissman Fund: Provides fellowships to qualified graduate students interested in pursuing an academic or museum career in the history or conservation of dress. Applicants should have been enrolled for at least one year in an advanced degree program in the field of art, architecture, cultural studies, design, or costume history.

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowships: Awarded for study, work, or research to students of the fine arts whose fields are related to the Museum's collections, with preference to be given to students in the decorative arts who are under forty years of age. The fellowship carries the possibility of renewal for one additional year.

Theodore Rousseau Fellowships: Intended to develop the skills of connoisseurship by supporting firsthand examination of paintings in major European collections, rather than by supporting library research. The fellowships are awarded for the training of students whose goal is to enter museums as curators of painting. Applicants should have been enrolled for at least one year in an advanced degree program in the field of art history. Short-term fellowships of at least three months will be considered along with twelve-month requests.

Annette Kade Fellowship: Awarded to French and German predoctoral art history students for one year's study or research at the Metropolitan Museum. The award is intended for French and German students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to study in the United States.

The Douglass Foundation Fellowship in American Art: Awarded in honor of John K. Howat to a promising young scholar for one year's study or research in the American Wing (in either the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture or the Department of American Decorative Arts) on an aspect of the Museum's collection. Applicants should have been enrolled for at least one year in an advanced degree program in the field of American art or culture.

The Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellowship—Early Netherlandish and German Painting, Department of European Paintings: Awarded to a Ph.D.-level candidate for training in an interdisciplinary approach, joining art historical research with technical investigation of the Museum's early Netherlandish and German paintings. Note: For this fellowship only, applicants must contact Marcie Karp in the Grants Office at education.grants@metmuseum.org prior to submitting an application.

The Hanns Swarzenski and Brigitte Horney Swarzenski Fellowship: Awarded to a promising young scholar for study and research at the Museum. Preference will be given to applicants with a proven interest in museum work or those planning to pursue a museum career in the field of Medieval Art. If in any given year the Grants Committee should find no suitable candidate for a fellowship in Medieval Art, it may instead select a suitable candidate in the field of European Decorative Arts.