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Fellow research projects

What is being researched by our fellows

Welcome to the new generation of museum professionals! The Rijksmuseum currently runs five Fellowship Programmes covering diverse research areas: from art and cultural history to American photography, from conservation and scientific research through to Chinese art. Find out what are Fellow are working on right now.

AK-MAK-975 AK-MAK-975

The Functional Aesthetic of ‘Kōgei’

The connoisseurship and art historiography of Japanese applied art, early twentieth century

BK-NM-9352 BK-NM-9352

Imaging patterns on terracotta sculptures

BK-2021-18 BK-2021-18

Gender, Materiality, and the 'Exotic'

Display Strategies at the Danish and Dutch Courts, c. 1600–1700

RP-P-OB-77.386 RP-P-OB-77.386

From Players to Consumers

The educational role of board games in the Second Industrial Revolution

NG-NM-11911 NG-NM-11911

Dutch shipbuilding from the 17th to the 19th century

Material cultures and global influences

SK-A-4272 SK-A-4272

Brazilwood, Indigenous Knowledge, and Extractivism

Visualizing Nature in 16th- and 17th-century Brazil