This New York museum is dedicated to telling Chinese American history

A visitor viewing the 'With A Single Step, Stories In The Making Of America' exhibit at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City. Photo: AFP

A New York City museum dedicated to telling Chinese American history marked its reopening to the public recently, with an exhibit on Asian Americans and racism that it curated partially through submissions gathered during the pandemic and a surge of anti-Asian bias incidents around the country.

The opening was a long time coming for the Museum of Chinese in America, not only because of the pandemic shutdown of over a year but because of a fire that ravaged though the space where its collection was housed in January 2020.