Museum of Chinese in America News

Conservators Work on Items Damaged in Manhattan’s Chinatown Museum Fire

A volunteer team of conservators is working to salvage some of the 85,000 artifacts feared lost in a fire in the heart of Manhattan’s Chinatown. About a third of the collection belonging to the Museum of Chinese in America has …

Roughly 85K Museum Artifacts Feared Lost in NYC Chinatown Fire

Some 85,000 artifacts that tell the story of the Chinese migration to the United States may have been lost in a fire that struck a building in the heart of Manhattan’s Chinatown, a museum official said Friday. The president of …