Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 15-208
Smithsonian Latino Center
Website Records, 2012-2015
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the Smithsonian Latino Center website and two of its Tumblr blogs as they existed on March 27, 2015. The website provides information about the Center as well as Latino programs, educational resources, and exhibitions across the Smithsonian Institution. The website also includes online exhibitions. The "Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum: Learning in the 21st Century" Tumblr blog highlights Latino influences in art, science, and culture. The Latino Virtual Museum (LVM) is a pan-institutional digital initiative which highlights the collections, research, scholarship, exhibitions, and educational activities of the Smithsonian Institution as they relate to United States Latinos and Latin America. The blog launched in July 2013. The "Smithsonian LVM Dia de Los Muertos Celebracion" Tumblr blog highlights events associated with the LVM, most notably the annual Day of the Dead Real/Virtual Festival, in collaboration with the University of Texas at El Paso. The blog launched in October 2012. Materials are in electronic format.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Day of the Dead Real/Virtual Festival
- Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763-1848 (Online exhibition)
- Mexican Treasures of the Smithsonian (Online exhibition)
- Panama at the Smithsonian (Online exhibition)
- Smithsonian Institution
- Smithsonian LVM Dia de Los Muertos Celebracion (Blog)
- Smithsonian Latino Center. Latino Virtual Museum
- Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum: Learning in the 21st Century (Blog)
- Tumblr (Electronic resource)
- University of Texas at El Paso
Subject
- Blogs
- Exhibitions
- Hispanic Americans
- Latin Americans
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Museums -- Public relations
- Special events
- Web sites
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 15-208, Smithsonian Latino Center, Website Records