The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives encourages recent graduates of Library and Information school master's programs, or current PhD candidates or post-doctoral scholars in Information Science, to apply for our year-long fellowship opportunities.
About The Met Museum Archives:
The objective of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives is to collect, organize, and preserve in perpetuity the corporate records and official correspondence of the Museum, to make this material accessible and provide research support, and to further an informed and enduring understanding of the Museum's history. Archives holdings include Board of Trustees records, legal documents, and Museum publications, office files of selected Museum staff, architectural drawings, press clippings, and ephemera. The Met Museum Archives department also works to advise other museum departments on their archive and record keeping initiatives, and support ancillary archival collections found throughout the museum.
The Met Museum Archives is comprised of over 3000 linear feet of analog records that document the history of the museum, as well as extensive digital holdings. The Museum Archives utilizes ArchivesSpace, Preservica and Microsoft Access Databases, as well as TMS for related collection information.
There are currently two eligible fellowships programs for early career Archivists and Information Scientists:
Junior Fellows | Conservation and Scientific Research Fellowship
Junior fellows are those applicants who have recently completed graduate-level training, such as an MLS, MSLIS, or MLIS.
The goal of this fellowship is to provide recent Archives graduates with guided learning experiences across the key activities of institutional archiving. The fellowship will provide exposure to a wide range of activities which will give fellows a comprehensive understanding of archival and records management operations within a large-scale museum.
Fellows will participate in several areas of archival work including collection processing and finding aid creation, reference support, database and repository maintenance, digital preservation initiatives, physical preservation activities, and the ongoing implementation of metadata schemas for our related repositories. This will primarily take place in the context of hands-on work, but also through meetings and demonstrations with staff members.
Applicants will need to provide a CV, 3 letters of recommendation, official transcripts, and a statement of intent. (Please see How to Apply in the link above for more information.)
Application deadline: Friday, November 14, 2025, 5 pm ET
Notification date: All applicants will be notified by the last Friday in February following the application deadline.
Fellowship period: September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027
The Interdisciplinary Fellowship supports scholars whose projects lie at the intersection of various disciplines and methodologies. It encourages cross-departmental projects that explore connections between various cultures and Met collections, bridging the visual arts and other disciplines in the humanities and sciences.
Applicants may propose a project exploring the intersections between public practice, education, and the humanities; however, this fellowship is not intended to culminate in an exhibition, performance, or public program.
An example of an Interdisciplinary Fellowship project based in the Museum Archives Department might include a focus on a digital preservation or physical preservation initiative that addresses a certain material, media or content type, which is based in the Museum Archives—but might also fall at the intersection of one or several Museum departments (i.e. Photography and Time Based Media Conservation / Paper Conservation / LiveArts / Digital). The research project should address a policy, intervention, or schema. We encourage serious candidates to reach out with ideas in advance, as we recognize that The Met is a complex institution to understand externally.
Applicants will need to provide a CV, 3 letters of recommendation, official transcripts, a project proposal and schedule of work. (Please see How to Apply in the link above for more information.)
Please see The Met’s website for more details on eligibility and applications:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowship Opportunities
Application deadline: Friday, October 17, 2025, 5 pm ET Notification date: All applicants are notified by the last Friday in February following the application deadline. Fellowship period: September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027
