Once located in the area known today as Lower Downtown (LoDo), Denver’s Chinatown was one of the largest in the American West during the late 1800s and early 1900s. It provided a welcoming space for Chinese people in Colorado who built a community and celebrated their culture against a backdrop of frequent ignorance, hostility, and violence. The exhibition will invite visitors into this thriving cultural community through historic personal family photographs and objects, artifacts from the museum collection, a portrayal of a typical home, and artistic reimaginings of the neighborhood.

Created in collaboration with Colorado Asian Pacific United and the University of Colorado Denver’s College of Architecture and Planning, Where is Denver’s Chinatown? reveals the Chinese community that flourished here, the racist efforts to erase it, and the resilience of the community today. 

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