05.19.08
Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum takes flight once more
Right: Workers install glass in front of a 1900s theater scrim in the museum.
The Wing Luke Asian Museum of Seattle reopens to fanfare on May 31, having been relocated to an early 20th-century building that once offered rooms, meals and social support to Chinese immigrants.
According to the Seattle P-I, the museum’s new “Historic Immersion Tours” will take visitors through restored apartments, a food store, a kitchen and common areas that once teemed with off-duty workers.
“You’ll be able to learn about the pioneers’ stories right in the actual living spaces, so it becomes much more tangible and alive,” says Cassie Chinn, the museum’s deputy director for programming.
For more info on the grand reopening, visit the museum’s official Web site.