SDCHM

The KFMB-TV MOJO Awards Named SDCHM the #1 Best Museum in the San Diego Area!

The KFMB-TV Mojo Awards is a weekly competition to find the best businesses in the San Diego area. Between August 8 and 14, 2010, viewers reviewed San Diego’s museums, the site analyzed their responses for credibility, and our museum was ranked first out of ninety nominees. The Mojo Pages calculates that there is a 97% chance you will have a great time if you visit our museum. We would like to thank everyone who submitted reviews and all of the members and donors who have helped make our museum such as success. Read all the great things people are saying about us here: (just click on the “Museum” link under “Schedule” for the month of August.) And see us featured on the KFMB newscast here.

Family Moon Festival
Saturday, October 2, 2010. 1:00 - 3:00pm
Please RSVP

Join the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum in celebrating the brightest full moon of the year! The Chinese celebrate the Moon or Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month by savoring the full moon, the bounty of the harvest, and delicious mooncakes. We will demonstrate how to prepare these traditional treats, which can include exotic flavors ranging from red bean paste to sweet lotus seed. Children will have a chance to make their own mooncakes, and volunteers will help museum staff retell Chinese legends about the jade rabbit and fairy princess living in the moon. Festivities in the museum garden also will include Chinese arts and crafts, a calligraphy demonstration and, of course, a chance to sample various types of mooncake. Please RSVP via email at info@sdchm.org, or by calling the museum at 619-338-9888.
The 10th annual Family Moon Festival will be held on Saturday, October 2nd from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. Light refreshments will be served. Admission is $2 and free for members and children under 12.
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Lecture & Book Signing with Erika Lee and Jung Yung -
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
Saturday, September 11, 2010 2:00pm.

The San Diego Chinese Historical Museum is proud to present a lecture and book signing featuring authors Erika Lee and Judy Yung.
Between 1910 and 1940, over half a million potential immigrants sailed through the Golden Gate, but due to the discriminatory laws of the time, most of these new arrivals from Asia faced detention, interrogation, and even deportation at Angel Island Immigration Station before they could pursue their dreams of a better life. In this landmark book, historians Erika Lee and Judy Yung present extensive new research into immigration records, oral histories, and inscriptions on detention center barrack walls producing the first comprehensive history of the Angel Island Immigration Station and the people who arrived there. Detainees included Chinese “paper sons,” Japanese picture brides, Korean students, South Asian political activists, Russian and Jewish refugees, Mexican families, Filipino repatriates, and many others from around the world.
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The Elite and Popular Culture of Old China
Exhibit Opening & Reception, Saturday, July 31, 2010. 2:00 - 4:00pm

The San Diego Chinese Historical Museum is pleased to present a new exhibit, The Elite and Popular Culture of Old China.
Historically, the Chinese people have been divided into a majority of common farmers and an elite minority of scholars chosen by examination to serve as government officials. This exhibit will highlight the arts, entertainments and handmade utensils of each class: from operas that bring folk stories to life to ancient script etched into stone chops. Farmers cultivated the soil while scholars cultivated the mind, but each activity was an integral part of shaping and maintaining the Chinese culture that has endured into the present.
Click here to view a news article in Chinese published in the Epoch Times.
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Blue Star Museums Program
Memorial Day through Labor Day 2010

The San Diego Chinese Historical Museum is pleased to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2010 as part of the Blue Star Museum program presented in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and more than 600 museums across America. The complete list of participating Blue Star Museums is available at www.arts.gov.
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DK Travel has named SDCHM as one of the "Top 10 Museums & Art Galleries" in San Diego.

It is our great pleasure to announce that DK Eyewitness Travel has named the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum as San Diego's number four museum or art gallery in its travel guide's 2009 edition. The book is still in press, but you can see the top ten museums and galleries here, or see the museum's listing and write a review here. It is a great honor for us to be listed among the other renowned attractions in America's Finest City. Filled with colorful maps, photos and diagrams, DK Publishing's Eyewitness Travel Guides cater to upper middle class travelers, particularly those interested in cultural attractions. A division of Penguin Group (USA), DK also has published multiple New York Times bestsellers, an award-winning Eyewitness series for children, as well as the BradyGames and Rough Guide series.