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Chinese American Museum of Chicago

Category: People

Chinese Beauty, 1893

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One of the first Chinese women ever photographed in Chicago, at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.  According to one source… Read more Chinese Beauty, 1893

Chin Foin, restaurateur

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1921: Birds Nests & The First Chinese Woman PhD in Chicago

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Many Chinese women who got a college degree in the US before World War II went back to China to… Read more 1921: Birds Nests & The First Chinese Woman PhD in Chicago

1933: Hu Shih 胡適 gives the Chinese Renaissance lecture series at the University of Chicago

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Hu, who had been a student at Cornell in 1910 and at Columbia after that, was already famous when he… Read more 1933: Hu Shih 胡適 gives the Chinese Renaissance lecture series at the University of Chicago

1945-1950 A pair of Nobel Prize winners studies physics in Chicago

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Chen Ning Yang (杨振宁), a native of Hefei in Anhui, and Tsung Dao Lee (李政道), a Shanghainese, came to Chicago… Read more 1945-1950 A pair of Nobel Prize winners studies physics in Chicago

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CAMOC is governed by the Board of Directors of the Chinatown Museum Foundation (CMF), a 501(C)(3) non-profit corporation located in Chicago, Illinois.

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238 West 23rd Street
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: 312-949-1000 Fax: 312-949-1001
office@ccamuseum.org
Mon: Closed
Tue: Closed
Wed: 9:30AM-2PM
Thu: Closed
Fri: 9:30AM-2PM
Sat-Sun: 10AM-4PM (Winter)
Sat-Sun: 10AM-5PM (Summer)
Group visits by appointment only.

Closed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

Suggested Donation for Admission:
Adults: $8
Students and Seniors: $5
Museum Members: FREE
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Museum Updates

CAMOC is open on Wednesday and Friday from 9:30am to 2pm and Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm. We will be closing early at 3pm on Saturday, June 18, to prepare for our 21st Benefit Dinner. Group visits by appointment only. Visitors are required to wear a mask at all times while inside the Museum.

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