Exhibits
Where is Home? Chinese in the Americas
Until February 16, 2008
MOCA's current core exhibit, Where Is Home?, is an evocative, interpretive display of the museum's growing collection of artifacts and personal testimony documenting the Chinese Diaspora to the Western hemisphere. The installation, designed by Billie Tsien, is divided into sections dealing with themes such as migrations, abandonments & reclamations, faiths & customs, women, and home.
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Many True Stories: Life in Chinatown On and After September 11th
Until February 16, 2008
As residents of Chinatown, students from the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Middle School 131 Oral History Club experienced firsthand the impact that September 11th had on their community and wanted a way to candidly capture the events and its aftermath without having to rely on second-hand sources that glossed-over or excluded their neighborhood.
Mapping Our Heritage Project
Until February 16, 2008
Wandering the streets of New York City Chinatown and observing the diverse architecture and dramatic streetscape, it’s not uncommon to wonder, “If these walls could talk, what would they say?” The Museum of Chinese in America begins to take the guesswork out of the question when it unveils the prototype of its Mapping Our Heritage Project – a pioneering three-dimensional, interactive map of New York’s “Old Chinatown” district. Mapping Our Heritage Project is a national model for how technology can be applied to a neighborhood’s cultural and historical preservation.
Ground One: Voices from Post-911 Chinatown
Ongoing, Online
To better understand the consequences of 9/11 on Chinatown and Chinese New Yorkers, the Museum of Chinese in America partnered with the Columbia University Oral History Research Office (OHRO), the September 11 Digital Archive (911 DA) at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and New York University's Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute (A/P/A) to create Ground One: Voices from Post-911 Chinatown. Ground One aims to provide an in-depth portrait of the ways in which the identity of a community, largely neglected by national media following 9/11, has been indelibly shaped by that day.
