Museum of Chinese in America
The Museum of Chinese in America is a museum in New York City which exhibits Chinese American history. It is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) education and cultural institution that presents the living history, heritage, culture, and diverse experiences of Chinese Americans through exhibitions, educational services and public programs. Much of its collection was damaged or destroyed in a fire in January 2020. After being closed for more than a year following the fire, the museum reopened to the public on July 15, 2021.
The museum in 2015
Menu of Port Arthur Chinese Restaurant, one of the oldest Chinese restaurants in Chinatown, on display
Artwork within the 2021 – 2023 "Responses: Asian American Voices Resisting the Tides of Racism" exhibition.
Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017.
Crossing Canal Street in Chinatown, facing Mott Street toward the south
The Chinese American experience has been documented at the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan's Chinatown since 1980.
Little Fuzhou (on East Broadway) is seen from the Manhattan Bridge.
Doyers Street in an 1898 postcard
