Apply Now for Funding to Attend SEMC 2025!

In partnership with the Smithsonian’s Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past initiative, SEMC is thrilled to offer a special funding opportunity to support museum professionals attending the 2025 Annual Meeting in Montgomery, Alabama (October 20–22). Four (4) $1,400 travel support awards are available for students or professionals with a focus or interest in U.S. Latino museum audiences, content, and programming. This opportunity includes early-bird registration and up to $1,000 toward travel and lodging. Museum professionals across the Southeast, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands are encouraged to apply. All are welcome! Applications due by July 30, 2025 at 11:59PM CST.

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This program received federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the National Museum of the American Latino. 

Register Now for SEMC2025!

October 20 - 22, 2025
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel, Montgomery, Alabama

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About the 2025 theme:

Developed by the Montgomery local arrangements committee, the 2025 SEMC Conference theme, Future Forward: Reach, Remember, Reclaim, reflects the way Montgomery museums are looking toward the future by embracing new voices and new interpretations. We must reach into the community, remember and reconcile our past, and reclaim our community stories and spaces. In Montgomery, let's explore emerging trends and technologies in museums, share solutions and success stories, and come together to find a way forward.

We can't wait to welcome you to Montgomery!!