Wing Luke

Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience

719 South King Street

The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience is dedicated to immersing people in uniquely-American stories of survival, success, struggle, conflict, compassion and hope. The Museum is in the heart of Seattle’s vibrant Chinatown-International District, and includes the very hotel where countless immigrants first found a home, a meal and refuge. As our nation’s only museum devoted to the Asian Pacific American experience, it’s one of the few places that can truly give you a new perspective on what it means to be American. 

There are two easy bus options:
ST 545 Express at Stewart and 9th, get off at 5th and Jackson.
MT 255 from Stewart and Yale, get off at the Intl district in the bus tunnel.

You are required to visit the museum, but you can go at any time.  On Thursday, it is free and open from 10am to 8pm.  I will be at the museum during our scheduled class time.  At 7:20, I’m going to eat dinner somewhere nearby.  It will be inexpensive and good, if you‘d like to join me.

While you're at the museum, I want you to choose one particular item from the collection (photo, object, map).  It can be a small piece or large installation, whatever draws your attention.  In one page - you can hand write it on the spot - describe the item in detail and suggest how it fits into the context of the larger museum.  What does it "say" about the Asian Pacific American Experience?