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
- Smithsonian Institution
- Smithsonian Latino Center. Latino Virtual Museum
- University of Texas at El Paso
- Panama at the Smithsonian (Online exhibition)
- Mexican Treasures of the Smithsonian (Online exhibition)
- Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763-1848 (Online exhibition)
- Day of the Dead Real/Virtual Festival
- Tumblr (Electronic resource)
- Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum: Learning in the 21st Century (Blog)
- Smithsonian LVM Dia de Los Muertos Celebracion (Blog)
Subject
- Web sites
- Blogs
- Museums -- Public relations
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Latin Americans
- Hispanic Americans
- Exhibitions
- Special events
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 15-208, Smithsonian Latino Center, Website Records