Oral History Booth on the 2nd Floor of the Collections and Research Center. Photograph taken by Nancy Tam, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) institutional archives.
Title: Digitizing 44 Years of Oral Histories at the Museum of Chinese in America: A Talk and Guided Tour of the Museum & Archives Date & Time: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 5:15PM (Tour begins promptly at 5:30 PM)
Join us for a guided tour of the Museum of Chinese in America's (MOCA) current exhibitions, With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America and Five Senses of Chinatown. Following the tour, Yue Ma, Director of Collections and Research of MOCA, will walk visitors over to the museum’s nearby collections space for a behind-the-scenes tour and talk highlighting MOCA’s ongoing oral history digitization work. Since its inception and throughout its now 44-year history, conducting and collecting oral histories has been central to the museum’s community documenting and exhibition research work. Originally recorded on audio cassettes, VHS, and miniDVs, this large collection of over 600 oral histories is being digitized, indexed, translated, and cataloged by MOCA’s Collections staff with the support of grants from the NHPRC, IMLS and Luce Foundation. The talk will focus on the museum’s 44 years of oral history work and current efforts to make the oral histories digitally accessible on MOCA’s oral history archive platform OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer).
This is an in-person event limited to 18 A.R.T. Members. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event. In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
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