Art Institute of Chicago Research Center

The Art Institute Research Center is a tri-departmental entity that unites the museum’s historic Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, the Art Institute of Chicago Archives, and the department of Academic Engagement and Research into a hub for scholarship and training.

Stewarding a collection of three million items, the Research Center holds resources that illuminate the histories and contexts of the museum’s art collection, as well as primary sources that are singular or rare works of paper-based art, archives, and historical documentation. The Research Center supports museum colleagues in all of their research endeavors and maintains public hours in the Franke Reading Room to serve the broader art research community, faculty and students, artists and architects, and inquisitive scholars from around the world. The division of Academic Engagement and Research (AER) oversees art research training and development for emerging museum professionals and scholarly innovators, including the museum’s internship and fellowship programs. Guided by the mission to advance equity and inclusion in shaping the next generation of museum professionals, AER manages transformative grants and partnerships, hosts workshops and scholarly events, and creates opportunities to network professors, students, scholars and artists with museum staff.

Postdoctoral research and curatorial fellowships; residential research fellowships; Conservation and Science fellowships; grant-based fellowships; pre-doctoral research fellowships

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