Free community open house at the Wing Luke Museum to meet new Executive Director Chrissy Shimizu and connect with the community.
Wing Luke Museum is holding a free community open house on Wednesday, October 14, from 2 PM to 5 PM. The afternoon is centered around one specific introduction: the museum's new executive director, Chrissy Shimizu. It's an open-door kind of event, so you can drop in, meet her, and talk with other community members about where the museum goes from here. The museum is asking visitors to share their own vision for its future, so if you have thoughts on what you'd like to see there, this is the time to voice them.
For context, Wing Luke Museum is the only pan-Asian art and history museum in the United States. It's dedicated to the histories, stories, art, and culture of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander people, and it's housed in the historic East Kong Yick building in Seattle's Chinatown-International District. If you've never been, it's a good place to start getting a sense of the neighborhood's roots.
One of the museum's more recent projects is the restoration of the Eng Family Home, one of the last remaining single-family homes in the district. The Eng family built a life there in 1930s Chinatown despite the exclusion and redlining of the era, and the home serves as a tangible piece of that history. It's a good example of the kind of work the museum does—preserving the specific, lived stories of the people who shaped the district.
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Between the new leadership and the ongoing work with the Eng Family Home, the open house marks a new chapter for the museum. It runs from 2 PM to 5 PM on Wednesday, October 14, at Wing Luke Museum, 719 South King Street in Seattle, and it's free to attend.
