FRAME Travel Program

The FRAME Travel Program encourages transatlantic exchanges with one or more FRAME member museums, and potential non-FRAME museums, in France and North America to foster research and/or professional development for up to three FRAME museums staff at all levels across functions.

This program includes two categories:

1. Research Fellowships:
2. Professional Development Travels

Research Fellowships

Scope

When a project justifies, FRAME can provide research fellowships to member museums to help them:

• Deepen scholarship and academic endeavors among the network.
• Develop FRAME curatorial and educational projects.
• Increase transdisciplinary actions crossing scholarly and educational expertise.

How Does it Work?

These fellowships are intended to enable researchers to carry out their work at key locations for their scholarly research, and to cross expertise with the staff at hosting institutions.

• Beneficiaries: for up to three professionals from the same FRAME member museum at all levels across functions related to collections (directors, curators, educators, interpretation staff, head of exhibitions, restorers, registrars, etc.)
• Locations: a museum or a university collection, a research center, a library, etc.
• Duration: Up to two weeks.

FRAME Support

With a goal to bring assistance to the membership, FRAME can provide grants between $3,000 to $10,000 for one to three professionals to cover transports, and/or lodging, meals, documentation as needed.

Professional Development Travels

Scope

FRAME encourages its membership to gain knowledge from hosting institutions in terms of museum strategy, work experience or occupational practices and to return with an expanded professional perspective and an increased network of museum colleagues.

How Does it Work?

This program is intended to enable museum professionals to explore methodologies, practices and cross expertise regarding the implementation of a strategy for the whole institution or a museum department.

• Beneficiaries: for up to three professionals from the same FRAME member museum at all levels
  across functions related to collections (directors, curators, educators, interpretation staff, head
  of exhibitions, restorers, registrars, etc.), regardless of age or experience.
• Locations: a museum.
• Duration: Up to two weeks.

FRAME Support

With a goal to bring assistance to the membership, FRAME can provide grants between $3,000 to $10,000 for one to three professionals to cover transports, and/or lodging, meals, documentation as needed.

For more information, please visit FRAME Grants.