German Maritime Museum Fellows/Senior Experts

We integrate external scientists as important partners in joint projects and in the area of the promotion of young researchers in research and exhibition work.

We are in active dialogue with other scientists who study maritime history from various perspectives and create scientific discussion in this regard within the framework of exhibitions and academic teaching. We are thus a coordinated and cooperating interface between universities, non-university research institutions and historical associations. To this end, an extendable circle of experts of external members has been identified, which stimulates this cooperation scientifically and accompanies it conceptually and contextually as a scientific support and friendship network.

In dialogue with our own scientists, the so-called "DSM Fellows/Senior Experts", who have in the meantime become an established part of the German Maritime Museum, bind together research at the universities and other scientific institutes with that of the DSM and thus contribute to a mutual enrichment. This enables the direct communication of academic research findings to the wider public in the context of exhibitions.

We cooperate with external experts for mutual benefit

The "German Maritime Museum Fellows/Senior Experts are given the opportunity to make a difference both internally through the supervision of project groups and young researchers and externally in the form of workshops/conferences/congresses and exhibitions. We are advised by the "German Maritime Museum Fellows/Senior Experts" in the conception of projects and exhibition modules and supported in applications for external funding and the creation of joint publications.

In return, with our personnel and spatial infrastructure, we offer a place with public effect for the implementation of workshops, conferences and congresses in the context of our contextual profile and in close content-related cooperation with partner institutes, and the possibility to publish in our in-house publication series. In addition, we offer the "German Maritime Museum Fellows/Senior Experts" the opportunity to have their own research results become effective in the context of colloquia with young researchers. We support interested experts through the free-of-charge provision of a guest room and the payment of travel costs as well as, where applicable, commissions for work.