Cultural Heritage

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) is hosting an international research programme for museum professionals. The programme will run for 10 weeks from 29 September - 8 December 2022.

The School of Arts at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa is accepting applications for an artistic residency funded by the InResidence programme, promoted by the Porto Municipality. The selected artist will work for a period of three months between September and December 2022. The residency is open to artists working in: Cinema, Sound, Photography, New Media Art, Heritage and Conservation and Restoration.

SAWA Museum Studies Programme is a diversity-oriented museum educational programme for young professionals in Arabic-speaking countries and Germany. The programme is divided into two stages: an up to ten days visit to Sharjah and a corresponding same length visit to Berlin.

KADIST San Francisco is offering two six-month collection fellowships to recent or 2022 graduates of art history, museum studies, critical writing, or a related field from college or university programmes (BA or MA). Remote positions with bi-monthly online meetings are negotiable. Each fellowship requires a six-month commitment, an average of eight hours a week, beginning the week of 7 or 14 February 2022.

TheMuseumsLab is a platform for joint learning, exchange and continuing education on the future of museums in both Africa and Europe. The programme consists of three one-week seminar modules (online and onsite in Berlin and Cape Town) lead by prominent African and European experts, a two-week residency at a renowned European partner institution, and a co-working phase.

The Archipel.eu pilot project, launched in June 2021, aims to preserve and promote culture in the outermost regions of the European Union (ORs) and the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs). This fund works to safeguard and promote the intangible cultural heritage, popular arts and practices, and ancestral cultures of the ORs and OCTs. Proposed projects must take place between April 2022 and March 2023.

When we envision a new form of a museum, we could probably start by dislocating the ‘Museum’ and reclaiming the ‘Land’ where it is located. ‘Memory and Memoricide of the Land’ is organising a remote residency from 29 October – 15 December 2021 for curators to research and explore the relations between the museum and the land, memory and memoricide of the land, alongside their own curatorial practice on the deconstruction/reconstruction of existing museum models.

Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe’s grant scheme supports travel costs for Jewish heritage professionals who are attending professional conferences or training. Support is available for a staff member working in a European Jewish museum, or one with a European Jewish collection, to attend a professional conference, participate in a seminar, or conduct a specific site visit within Europe.

Applications are invited for the position of Researcher for the project Re-connecting ‘Objects’: Epistemic Plurality and Transformative Practices in and beyond Museums, based at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University. This is a fixed-term position for 42 months, from 1 October 2021 to 30 March 2025.

CIMAM’s 2021 conference, ‘Under Pressure. Museums in Times of Xenophobia and Climate Emergency’, will be held in Lodz and Gdansk, Poland from 5-7 November 2021. Grants are available to support in-person or online attendance for individuals residing in the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Northeast Asia region, the African continent, Spain, and the Eurasian Economic Union.

DutchCulture’s Dutch-Russian online conference Sustainable Dialogues 2021 will take place 4-6 October 2021. They are now calling for applications from students of cultural disciplines and early-career museum, art and heritage professionals interested in creating international museum projects and participating in expertise-building workshops, focusing specifically on Dutch-Russian museum cooperation.

DigiTraining is a capacity building programme that will provide a large number of cultural heritage institutions with new digital skills and the management tools to deal with and benefit from them. The call is addressed to small or midsize museums, as well as other tangible or intangible heritage organisations with open facilities accessible to the public.