The Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants programme helps curators working with fine and applied art collections.The Art Fund will award grants totaling £50,000 annually through this scheme.Grants aim to help sustain and promote curatorial development and collections-based research through making grants to individuals. Open to curators who work across the full range of fine and applied art collections in museums and galleries that hold at least provisional accreditation and are open to the public. Also available to researchers, art historians and academics from other relevant and related disciplines, retired curators, and other museum professionals. The Art Fund will consider funding requests for a minimum of £200. There are two categories of grant: one up to £2000; the other above £2000.