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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Funding Opportunities for Autumn 2025

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The Paul Mellon Centre’s autumn 2025 round of funding opportunities is now open for applications. This round is primarily designed to support organisations undertaking research, projects and activities concerned with British art or architectural history and the opportunities we offer for organisations this year are as follows:

• Curatorial Research Grants: designed to support the costs of employing an individual (full or part time) to undertake a large-scale research project which often results in an exhibition.

• Collaborative Project Grants: support the early days of a research project between two or more organisations, providing funding to facilitate meetings, research trips and workshops for participants.

• Conservation Research Project Grant: helps support an organisation when undertaking a project concerning conservation research and technical analysis.

• Digital Project Grants: designed to support the costs of employing an individual to undertake innovative and large-scale projects that use digital media.

• Digitisation Grants: designed to support organisations wishing to digitise materials and assets from their own collections, and make them available to a wide online audience.

• Event Support Grants: supporting costs incurred by an organisation when hosting an event or series of events (including workshops, symposiums and lectures).

• Exhibition Publication Grants: designed to support the costs of publishing written material relating to an exhibition.

We also have some grants on offer for individuals which include:

• Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants: a grant to support individuals who wish to travel to see works on paper and in person which is funded by the Andrew Wyld Fund.

• Author Grants (Large): amounts that range from £2,001–£6,000 to help support costs incurred by individuals when publishing books.

• Author Grants (Small): amounts of up to £2,000 to help support costs incurred by individuals when publishing articles or books.

• Research Support Grants: support costs relating to undertaking travel for research purposes.

If you are interested in applying to any of our funding opportunities we recommend reading our FAQ page and our Grant Making Policy first. Our Grants and Fellowships Manager is also available if you have any questions or if you would like to arrange a pre-application discussion