Netherlands First Museum Tender

The Social Sciences and Humanities Domain Board awarded funding to five proposals in the first sub-round of the Museum Grants call on 6 April 2021. The applicants are museum professionals who will carry out a scientific research project in their museum. Each project will involve collaboration with university researchers and co-applicants. The research will lead to publications in open access scientific journals.The projectsThe five projects cover a range of subjects and thus provide insight into the wealth of opportunities for research in Dutch museum collections. The Netherlands Institute for Art History will deploy techniques to reveal the creative process from sketch to painting in works of Pieter Lastman Rembrandts teacher. At Memorial Center Kamp Westerbork audience research will be done into the interpretations and meanings of this centre as a place of remembrance. At NEMO Science Museum a start will be made on designing a methodology to help museums portray major transition subjects such as digitalisation and sustainability. The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will focus on a dialogue around the work of three artists from Central Asia whose work will be included in the collection. Finally the Allard Pierson Museum will set to work on investigating which social and political messages we can recognise in paintings on Greek earthenware.AimThe objective of the research programme Museum Grants is to facilitate talent development and scientific research in the museum sector. The grant is aimed at encouraging individual researchers and realising creative space for doing scientific research.Second sub-round openUntil 21 September 2021 new research proposals can be submitted for the second sub-round of Museum Grants. Museum employees can apply for up to 25000 euros for a short-term scientific project with which they can investigate explore and shed more light on objects materials and ideas from the museum collection. The research results will contribute to a broader spread of knowledge via an open access publication.