The Mexican Museum Hires Mela Delgado

New registrar to be responsible for inventory and care of museum collections and on-loan exhibits

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Mexican Museum, the premier museum of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American art, culture and heritage, announces that Mela Delgado has been hired as Registrar. In her position, Delgado will be responsible for overseeing the recordkeeping, monitoring, care, conservation, storage, and transport of the Museum’s permanent collection of more than 16,500 objects, reflecting Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, Popular, Modern and Contemporary Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American art. Delgado will also coordinate all logistics for artworks on loan for exhibition.

“We are extremely pleased to have Mela join us as the Museum’s new Registrar, as she is very familiar with our collections and how to accurately document art objects and ensure their specific care under every condition. Mela also has the experience and passion necessary to help us transition our collections to the new museum facility in 2019,” said Andrew M. Kluger, Chairman of Board of The Mexican Museum.

Delgado honed her knowledge of the collections of The Mexican Museum by serving as a Visitor Services and Events Associate since 2015. During that time, she also acted as a Visitor Experience Assistant II at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Her previous museum positions include serving as Museum Data Collector for the Oakland Museum of California and Assistant Collections Registrar for the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. Delgado is also an accomplished multimedia glass mosaic artist who runs Mela Delgado Studio and galaARTS in Alameda, CA, where she teaches basic and advanced mosaic classes for children and adults. In 2016, Delgado was selected as a featured Heart Sculpture Artist by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.

Delgado received her Master of Arts in Museum Studies from John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She also received a Photography Certificate from the Art Institutes® in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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About The Mexican Museum: Founded by the well-known San Francisco artist Peter Rodriguez in 1975 in the heart of the Mission District, The Mexican Museum is located at the Fort Mason Center. It is the realization of his vision to present the aesthetic expression of the Mexican and Mexican American people. Today, the museum’s vision has expanded to include the full scope of the Mexican, Chicano, and Latino experience – including the arts, history, and heritage of their respective cultures.

In 2012, The Mexican Museum became an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex. The Museum joins over 200 organizations in 45 states, Puerto Rico and Panama that are in association with the Smithsonian. The Mexican Museum currently has a permanent collection of more than 16,500 objects reflecting Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, Popular, Modern and Contemporary Mexican, Chicano and Latin American art.

The Mexican Museum, open Thursday – Sunday from noon to 4 p.m., is located at the Fort Mason Center, Building D, Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street, in San Francisco. Admission is FREE. The Museum offers a wide variety of programs, including Family Sundays, exhibitions, special events, lectures, and public programming throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, please visit: http://www.mexicanmuseum.org or call (415) 202-9700.