About the Latino Museum Studies Program

The Latino Museum Studies Program (LMSP) provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to explore museum career pathways and to interpret U.S. Latino art, history, and culture.

LMSP offers opportunities for students at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. The fall undergraduate program and the graduate summer program are cohort-based opportunities designed for participants interested in museum careers, and fellowship opportunities for independent scholars at the predoctoral and postdoctoral level.  

LMSP received federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the National Museum of the American Latino and generous support from the Mellon Foundation.  

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LMSP Undergraduate Internship

With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the undergraduate internship program offers opportunities in non-curatorial museum studies and practice. Participants build skills in museum conservation, collections management, museum education, museum interpretation, digital culture, exhibition design, and fabrication and production.

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LMSP Graduate Summer Fellowship

Fellows contribute to an ongoing project exploring U.S. Latino history, art, or culture through collections and scholarship at the Smithsonian, and engage with Smithsonian professionals, scholars, and leaders in the museum field.

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2023, National Museum of the American Latino.
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LMSP Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships

The LMSP Fellowships support independent scholars with opportunities to conduct research at various Smithsonian museums and centers. Pre-doctoral Fellowships and Postdoctoral opportunities are available to doctoral candidates and scholars for up to seven years beyond the Ph.D.

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2017, National Museum of the American Latino.