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The Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MoCA) celebrates the fusion of Chinese and American lifestyles. In 1980, Jack Tchen and Charlie Lai began this community-based project to document the memories of first-generation Chinese-Americans, and more importantly, the cultural result of this blended heritage. The museum and gallery installation is dedicated to uncovering and displaying information about the Chinese immigration to the Western Hemisphere. Its collection of unusual artifacts—from a Cantonese opera costume to old store signs—attempt to answer questions like 'Where is home?' Visitors can fill out forms with personal answers to these queries, or explore exhibits like an interactive multimedia timeline of the changing profile of New York’s Chinatown. The museum also showcases Asian-American artists who, through multiple media, delve into topics as broad as the first Chinese restaurants in the Western hemisphere to the historical gems discarded in a Chinatown dumpster. — Lindsay Damast

Available on a range of levels, beginning with student/senior at $25. Get a 10% discount at the Museum Shop, free admission, as well as special invitations to previews and events, and the museum’s publications.

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