In summer 2025, the Rijksmuseum, RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA) at the MFA, and Harvard Art Museums will co-facilitate the Summer Institute for Netherlandish Art, a unique international program open to sixteen participants.

Summer Institute 2025
When: 12 July to 25 July 2025
Where: Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Boston, MA, United States
Focus: Netherlandish Art of the long seventeenth century (about 1560 to 1800)
Language: English

The 2025 edition of the Summer Institute is based in both Amsterdam and Boston. As a successful applicant, you will closely interact with an interdisciplinary team of researchers, curators, conservators, educators and scientists from the four facilitating organizations.

The program comprises gallery visits, hands-on sessions in conservation studios, panel discussions, art-making and other activities, all of which will help you become part of a lasting international network of peers and established experts. You will study a range of media, including paintings, prints and decorative arts from the collections of the facilitating organization.

You will explore how museums and research institutions operate as public-serving platforms for art, ideas, scholarship and expertise in a time of intensified inter-organizational collaborations and re-evaluations of scholarly practice.

The program is open to MA students, PhD candidates, and emerging professionals with less than five years of experience working in either a university or museum setting. Candidates of all nationalities with a background in art history or related fields within the humanities, as well as conservation and conservation science, are invited to apply.

Applications are due by 3 February 2025.

For more information and to apply, please visit the MFA website.