The Finnish National Gallery’s international research internship programme is intended for master’s-level students of art history or cultural history. The programme supports students whose research focuses on materials included in the Finnish National Gallery’s collections or exhibitions that draw on our collections.
Research topics for internships may also be related to future exhibitions at Finnish National Gallery museums, as long as they draw on material from the collection.
The aim of the Finnish National Gallery is to support the intern’s skills in practices related to researching art history and cultural history. Each intern is assigned a tutor, who is a member of staff at the Finnish National Gallery. The Finnish National Gallery is not responsible for the academic supervision of the intern’s Master’s thesis.
The duration of the internship is three months.
Research interns are selected by the editorial board of the Finnish National Gallery’s online journal FNG Research. During the internship period, the intern will write an article in English based on material researched at the Finnish National Gallery. The article may be considered for publication in FNG Research.
The research internship programme is one of the ways in which the Finnish National Gallery increases the recognition of its collection and its impact in this field of research and actively partners with academia with the aim of upholding humanistic values and promoting an understanding of the world and culture by producing new, meaningful knowledge.
Application for the research internship programme runs once a year, in October–November, and the application will appear on our Careers site.