Scholar-in-Residence Program of the Deutsches Museum, Munich

The Deutsches Museum, Munich has several attractive scholarships to give
out for research projects involving the museum's vast and heterogeneous
collections, and lasting either six or twelve month. The scholarship
program is international and interdisciplinary in scope.

There are myriad opportunities at the Deutsches Museum for innovative
research into scientific processes and the changing cultures of
technology: founded in 1903, the museum's holdings comprise some 100,000
objects; an archive of 4,500 shelf meters including an extensive
collection of scientific photographs, technical illustrations, company
records and private papers; and a specialist research library for the
history of science and technology with 875,000 volumes, 5,000 journals,
and an extensive collection of rare books.

The museum's collections have grown organically in the sense that
instruments, manuscripts and books of individual scientists and engineers
as well as entire scientific research groups have been absorbed as
historical totalities reflecting by-gone experimental life-worlds and
cohesive cultures of innovation. The unique structure of this collection
enables scholars to develop cross-referential methods of research on the
basis of texts, images and artifacts available on site and to engage in
the historical and archeological exploration of science and technology.

Applicants are invited to co-operate with curators and researchers of the
Deutsches Museum in preparing their research proposals. Projects involving
innovative approaches to artifact-oriented research are especially
welcomed.

During their stays visiting scholars will have daily contact with
curators, archivists and librarians from within the Deutsches Museum
(approx. 50 staff members) as well as members of the Münchner Zentrum für
Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte (Munich Center for the History of
Science and Technology; approx. 50 staff members).

They will have their own workplace with a desktop computer and telephone,
and privileged access to temporary housing in subsidized apartments of the
museum complex. They will present their research projects to colleagues at
the beginning of their stays and are expected to participate in the
regular Monday colloquium series that convenes every two weeks. They may
also be invited to publish their research findings in various publication
series of the Deutsches Museum.

Pre-doctoral stipends in euros comprise: 7,500 (six months) / 15,000 (full
year). Post-doctoral stipends in euros comprise: 15,000 (six months) /
30,000 (full year). Scholars at any level of seniority are eligible to
apply, provided they have at least one university degree. There are no
restrictions regarding nationality. All scholars are requested to make
their own provisions for health insurance.

Application deadline: September 28, 2007
Candidate selection: October 15, 2007
Scholarship commencement: January 1 and July 1, 2008 respectively
Please send applications, including:
1. the filled-out online application form
(http://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/research/scholar-in-residence/)
2. curriculum vitae
3. project description (3-5 pages)
4. two confidential references (these can be sent directly by the referees)
to the following address:
Andrea Walther
Coordinator of the Research Institute
Deutsches Museum
80306 Munich
tel: 00 49 (0) 89 2179-280
fax: 00 49 (0) 89 2179-239
Email: a.waltherdeutsches-museum.de

Andrea Walther
Coordinator of the Research Institute
Deutsches Museum
80306 Munich
tel: 00 49 (0) 89 2179-280
fax: 00 49 (0) 89 2179-239
Email: a.waltherdeutsches-museum.de
Visit the website at
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/research/scholar-in-residence/