Museum of Chinese in America
Updated January 6, 2026 – The story of the Chinese immigrant experience in the U.S. is wholly different from that of any other ethnic group that came here. Arguably, these Chinese Americans, like the African Americans who came here as slaves, had a much more difficult time than other immigrant groups, and the tales of what they endured—thanks to the limited work they were allowed to do and the “Chinese Exclusion Act,” a federal law barring further Chinese immigration (that separated countless families)—give this small museum true power. Maya Lin, famed for the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C., was the museum’s original designer.
Updated January 6, 2026 – The story of the Chinese immigrant experience in the U.S. is wholly different from that of any other ethnic group that came here. Arguably, these Chinese Americans, like the African Americans who came here as slaves, had a much more difficult time than other immigrant groups, and the tales of what they endured—thanks to the limited work they were allowed to do and the “Chinese Exclusion Act,” a federal law barring further Chinese immigration (that separated countless families)—give this small museum true power. Maya Lin, famed for the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C., was the museum’s original designer.
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