Résidence au Deutsches Museum

Scholar-in-Residence Program Deutsches Museum Munich

The Deutsches Museum has several attractive scholarships to offer research scholars interested in working for six or 12 months on projects involving the museum's vast and heterogeneous collections. 

The scholarship programme is international and interdisciplinary in scope. There are myriad opportunities at the Deutsches Museum for innovative research into scientific processes and the changing cultures oftechnology. 

Founded in 1903, the museum's holdings comprise some 100,000 objects; an archive of 4,500 shelf metres including an extensivecollection of scientific photographs, technical illustrations, tradeliterature and private papers; and a specialist reserach library with875,000 volumes, 5,000 journals, and an extensive collection of rarebooks on the history of science and technology. The museum's collectionshave evolved over the years, absorbing the instruments, books andarchives of individual scientists and engineers as well as of companiesand scientific institutions, and reflect bygone experimental systems andcultures of innovation. The unique structure of this collection enables scholars to develop innovative cross-disciplinary methods of research onthe basis of texts, images and artefacts available on site and to engagein both the historical and archaeological exploration of science and technology. Applicants are invited to base their projects on the collections of the Deutsches Muaseum and to cooperate closely with museum staff on sitewhen formulating their research proposals. Projects involving innovativeapproaches to artefact-oriented research are especially welcome. During their stay, visiting scholars will have daily contact with themuseum's curators, archivists and librarians (approx. 50 staff members)Technikgeschichte (Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology; approx. 50 staff members).Scholarship holders will have their own work place with a desktopcomputer and telephone, and the opportunity to reside temporarily insubsidized apartments of the museum complex insofar as these areavailable. They will present their research projects to colleagues atthe beginning of their stay and will be expected to participateregularly in the museum's and the Munich Centre's Monday colloquiumseries and workshops.

Pre-doctoral stipends: Euro 7,500 (six months)/ Euro 15,000 (full year).

Post-doctoral stipends: Euro 15,000 (six months)/ Euro 30,000 (fullyear). Scholars at any level of seniority are eligible to apply, provided they have at least one university degree. There are norestrictions regarding nationality. 

All scholars are requested to maketheir own provisions for health insurance.- Application deadline: 12 October 2012- Candidate selection: 5 November 2012

Please send applications, including:- completed application form (http://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/research/scholar-in-residence/)- curriculum vitae- project description (3-5 pages)- two confiential references (can be sent directly by the referees)to the following address: Andrea Walther Coordinator of teh Research Institute Deutsches Museum 80306 Muncih Tel.: 00 49 (0) 89 2179-280 Fax: 00 49 (0) 89 2179-239 e-mail: a.walther@deutsches-museum.de