Thomas P. Campbell, Former Met Chief Executive, Gets Fellowship

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Thomas P. Campbell, who last month ended his tumultuous tenure as chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been chosen as the second recipient of the Getty Rothschild Fellowship, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Rothschild Foundation announced on Thursday.

The fellowship supports scholarship in art history, collecting and conservation, offering art historians, museum professionals or conservators up to eight months of research and study at the Getty in Los Angeles and Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England.

“What I’m looking forward to is taking a step back from the hands-on, day-to-day management of a big institution like the Met and to take kind of a broader look at the changing nature of the world which cultural organizations are having to adapt to,” Mr. Campbell said in a telephone interview.

As to whether he would consider another institutional position, he said: “It’s early to say for me. I loved being a scholar, but I also greatly enjoyed being director of the Metropolitan. I think the museum had many great successes under my leadership and I’m certainly interested in a leadership position again in the future. But I want to take some time and think about what’s the right step.”

Mr. Campbell will be at the Getty from November 2017 to February 2018 and at Waddesdon Manor from March to June 2018.

Fellows also receive a stipend. The first recipient was David Saunders, an expert in conservation science who worked on museum and gallery lighting during the fellowship.

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