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Permanent Exhibitions
One Song Many Voices
Our centerpiece exhibition depicts the 200-year story of the immigration and settlement of Asians and Pacific Islanders in Washington State, from the first Hawaiian settlers to more recent refugees from Southeast Asia. The exhibition includes 10 Asian Pacific American groups – Cambodians, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, Laotians, Pacific Islanders, South Asians, Southeast Asian hill tribes and Vietnamese. The exhibition is the only one of its kind in the nation to integrate their many different experiences into a cohesive story of courage, determination and success.

One Song, Many Voices features artifacts and photographs from early Asian American businesses and community groups, including restaurants, social clubs, a barber shop, an herbal shop and a hand laundry. The exhibition also features musical instruments, festival clothing and food practices. Chinese lanterns suspend from 16-foot high rafters, alongside a 35-foot traditional Chinese dragon and a 50-foot dragon boat. This vivid array invites every visitor to enjoy our nation’s rich cultural heritage. 
Camp Harmony D-4-44

Visitors must walk behind barbed wire to experience Camp Harmony D-4-44. This exhibition features a replica of a portion of the assembly center in Puyallup, Washington where thousands of Seattle's American-born Japanese were incarcerated without justification during World War II. The Installation incorporates sound dramatizations of the desperate hours before families were forced to abandon their homes.
 

Portrait of a Community

Seattle’s Chinatown/International District is the only area in the United States where Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, African Americans, Koreans, Vietnamese and Cambodians settled together and built one neighborhood. This outdoor exhibition introduces visitors to the neighborhood, capturing the history of the area from its origins in the early 1900s to the present-day. Start your tour of the District here. Walking tour brochures available at the Wing Luke Asian Museum.

Funding provided by:
City of Seattle, Neighborhood Matching Fund
King County Arts Commission and Landmarks & Heritage Commission Cultural Facilities Fund
SAFECO
The Seattle Foundation
South Downtown Foundation

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