Scholarships for museum professional

Scholarship Programs for museum studies and museology
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee provides a Museum Studies Certificate Program, which may also be pursued by Art History majors. Through the Art History department students in the Art/Museum Studies program may qualify for various department scholarships:
Nadine Walter Memorial Scholarship is given to a graduate student in the department whose academics are excellent. Awards are $2500.
The Weber Fund provides modest assistance to grad students working on a thesis.
Lawrence Holey Memorial Prize goes to a best essay.
Chancellor's Awards go to new students based on previous academic performance.
The Museum Studies program at San Francisco State University is a top-notch and highly competitive graduate program. Of the hundred or so students who apply for admission to the major, only a fraction are accepted. SFSU awards a band of scholarships based on varying combinations of academic merit and financial need. Students are automatically matched to various programs upon admission and many receive funding. Because the Museum Studies program falls under the College of Humanities, students may qualify for scholarships in that way as well.
Museum Studies students in the Master of Arts in Museology at Washington State University may qualify for department scholarships given for merit and financial need. Graduate students may also receive lucrative fellowships.
Native American students interested in Museum Studies and enrolled at the University of Colorado, must apply for the Clark Scholarship Fund. This program is specific ally designed to encourage and monetarily support the candidacy of Native Americans in museum curatorial work. Awards are $2500.
The prestigious and hyper-competitive Kodak Fellowship in Film Preservation is administered in partnership with the Association of Moving Image Archivists. The program is uniquely designed to support students whose studies have taken them into film archive realms, a niche field in museum studies. Besides a generous $4,000 scholarship, Kodak fellows also receive an internship with Kodak in a film archive lab and membership to the AMIA.
One of the country's newest Art and Museum Studies programs is currently being launched as a cooperative effort between strategically located Georgetown University and Sotheby's, one of the world's most prestigious auction houses and curatorial services. Graduate students will not only study at GU, but in London at Sotheby's Institute of Art. The partnership is being regarded as a distinctive opportunity not only for students, but also for professionals interested in pushing their careers into more advanced and lucrative museology fields. Graduate students may qualify for thousands of dollars in fellowship money and stipends through the flagship Art, Music and Theater department while Ph.D. candidates may earn assistantships to help pay for studies.

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