Wing Luke Museum

New Wing Luke Museum exhibit explores the personal connection to everyday items

Freddy Monares

Ten Thousand Things displays everyday objects accompanied by a short story that explains each item's meaning to its owner or creator.

Yellow background with the words "Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle" in green written across it and "conversations with our elders" below it. Along with the images of glasses, a cookie tin and bottle.

Arts & Culture

'Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle' pays tribute to the elders in our lives

Grace Madigan

Seattle's Wing Luke Museum has a new exhibit dedicated to exploring what it means to be an elder and how we as a society can learn from them and support them.

Four men gesture and point at a mural across multiple windowpanes and a door.

Social Justice

Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum unveils mural after alleged hate crime

Scott Greenstone

The mural stretches across nine windows in the Chinatown-International district that were smashed by a white man who was allegedly yelling racist slurs.

A black and white front entrance sign to the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle on a red brick building with cars in the background

Social Justice

Attack on Seattle's Wing Luke Museum was abhorrent, but 'not a surprise'

Emil Moffatt

Longtime writer and Chinatown International District community organizer Ron Chew says anti-Asian sentiment has been on the rise. He also says he’s disturbed by a lack of engagement and investment by the city.

Wing Luke Museum's community hall pictured in 2008. Established in 1967, the Wing Luke Museum "focuses on the culture, art and history of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders."

Law

Man charged with hate crime after Wing Luke Museum vandalized

The Associated Press

A man has been charged with a hate crime after the windows of the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle's Chinatown-International District were smashed last week.

Seven people dressed in colorful skirts and accessories representing birds native to the Mariana Islands where the CHamoru people are indigenous to. They pose in front of the Black Hole Sun sculpture in Volunteer Park in front of the Seattle Asian Art Museum.

Arts & Culture

New Wing Luke Museum exhibit features multimedia art by the artist collective Guma' Gela'

Grace Madigan

Artist collective Guma' Gela' presents the exhibit "Part land, part sea, all ancestry" at the Wing Luke Museum honoring their queer, CHamoru identities.

The Our Stories Are Your Stories campaign celebrates the unique voices and stories of the AAPI community to encourage understanding, empathy and connection.

News

'Our Stories Are Your Stories' amplifies AAPI voices

With the surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans, community leaders in the Seattle area found a way to get Asian American and Pacific Islander voices…

Gary Locke, the first Chinese-American governor (Washington) and US Commerce Secretary, is shown here in 1997 during a visit to his ancestral home in Jilong village, southeast China. Locke is expected to be nominated as the next US Ambassador to China.

News

Gary Locke reflects on his Asian roots, the importance of sharing his story

As a Japanese American kid, Julia Furukawa grew up seeing Gary Locke as one of the few Asian faces in politics. Locke was the first Chinese American…

An image from the graphic novel "We Hereby Refuse: Japanese Resistance to Wartime Incarceration."

Other News

A new graphic novel draws parallels between wartime incarceration and modern-day America

Kevin Kniestedt

A new graphic novel is being released called “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.” It’s part of a three-part series of graphic…

News

Remembering A Shameful Past: 135 Years Ago, Congress Passed The Chinese Exclusion Act

Paula Wissel

On May 6, 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. The 1882 law barred all skilled and unskilled Chinese laborers from entering the country.The…