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Subject

  • Díaz, Eduardo
  • Zamanillo, Jorge
  • Smithsonian Latino Center

Category

Agency History

Notes

  • This is an agency history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of the origin, development, and functions of an office or administrative unit to set that unit in its historical context. To find information on record holdings, please double-click the highlighted field "Creator/Author", which will open on a brief view of relevant records.
  • Smithsonian Latino Center, About, National Mueum of the American Latino, https://latino.si.edu/about/national-museum-american-latino, accessed February 8, 2022
  • SI News Release, "Jorge Zamanillo Named First Director of the New Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino," February 4, 2022, https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/jorge-zamanillo-named-first-director-new-smithsonians-national-museum-american, accessed February 10, 2022
  • On December 27, 2020, legislation passed calling for the Smithsonian Institution to establish theNational Museum of the American Latino. The new museum will be the cornerstone for visitors to learn how Latinos have contributed and continue to contribute to art, history, culture, and science. Additionally, the museum will serve as a gateway to exhibitions, collections, and programming at other Smithsonian museums, research centers, and traveling exhibition services. The museum builds upon the activities of the Smithsonian Latino Center, which since 1997 worked to preserve Latino history and culture, engage Latino communities, and advance Latino representation in the United States as well as ensured that contributions of the Latino community were celebrated and represented throughout the Smithsonian.
  • Eduardo Díaz, director of the Smithsonian Latino Center, served as interim director, 2020-2022. In February 2022 Jorge Zamanillo, executive director and CEO of HistoryMiami Museum, was named the founding director of the National Museum of the American Latino and will begin his appointment in May.
  • For a history of the larger creating unit, refer to "Forms part of" above.

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 2020
  • 2020-

Topic

  • Civilization
  • Ethnic identity
  • Latin Americans
  • Hispanic influences
  • Museums
  • Society
  • History
  • Social conditions
  • Hispanic Americans
  • Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity
  • Hispanic Americans--History
  • Hispanic Americans--Social life and customs
  • Hispanic Americans--Social conditions
  • Hispanic Americans--Museums

Place

United States

Form/Genre

Mixed archival materials

Local number

SIA AH00442

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