Message from kluna

The Chinese American Museum is a small museum on the outskirts of Olvera Street in Los Angeles. Although this Museum is small, it packs a lot of information. I really enjoyed the timeline section of the museum, which shows the population of Chinese in the U.S. during different time periods (using rice in rice bowls- awesome!), major achievements, and laws and major events affecting Chinese and Chinese Americans. Topics on this timeline range from developing communities, to Anti-Chinese violence, to challenging the exclusion people faced. I especially like this section because it allowed me to integrate topics discussed in class into the greater context of the Chinese experience, including in the U.S. They also have the Sung Wing Wu General Store and Herb Shop that has cultural artifact that helped continue cultural traditions in the U.S. which I particularly enjoyed because I was able to make connections with my own cultural traditions.