Since its founding in 1980, MOCA has celebrated the living history of the Chinese experience in America by preserving and presenting the 200-year history, heritage, culture, and diverse experiences of American communities of Chinese descent. The Research & Collections Center is a publicly accessible research and oral history workspace. Take a behind-the-scenes tour of MOCA’s Collections & Research Center and partake in a Q&A with Yue Ma, Director of the Collections and Research Center. MOCA Workshop is the home base for MOCA’s fire recovery and conservation work, featuring state-of-the-art collections storage, a reference library, and digitization stations. On January 23, 2020, MOCA experienced a devastating five-alarm fire at its collections and archives site in the heart of Chinatown. In the days that followed, MOCA received an unprecedented outpouring of support from volunteers, community members, and professional institutions from near and far that was critical to the successful rescue of MOCA’s archives from the fire-damaged building. MOCA’s volunteers’ crucial collective efforts helped it save 90 percent of this invaluable 85,000-object collection of Chinese American history and heritage. Since October 2020, MOCA’s archives have been safely relocated to the MOCA Workshop for ongoing and multi-pronged fire recovery and conservation efforts.
Since its founding in 1980, MOCA has celebrated the living history of the Chinese experience in America by preserving and presenting the 200-year history, heritage, culture, and diverse experiences of American communities of Chinese descent. The Research & Collections Center is a publicly accessible research and oral history workspace. Take a behind-the-scenes tour of MOCA’s Collections & Research Center and partake in a Q&A with Yue Ma, Director of the Collections and Research Center.
MOCA Workshop is the home base for MOCA’s fire recovery and conservation work, featuring state-of-the-art collections storage, a reference library, and digitization stations. On January 23, 2020, MOCA experienced a devastating five-alarm fire at its collections and archives site in the heart of Chinatown. In the days that followed, MOCA received an unprecedented outpouring of support from volunteers, community members, and professional institutions from near and far that was critical to the successful rescue of MOCA’s archives from the fire-damaged building. MOCA’s volunteers’ crucial collective efforts helped it save 90 percent of this invaluable 85,000-object collection of Chinese American history and heritage. Since October 2020, MOCA’s archives have been safely relocated to the MOCA Workshop for ongoing and multi-pronged fire recovery and conservation efforts.
Building Capital Series How does the combination of financial, cultural, and community capital enrich quality of life? The "Building Capital: Value of Place" series showcases places that play a vital role fostering community connections and local culture, telling the story of how the space was designed, built, and financed, how it’s being used, and how they contribute to the financial security and well-being of residents long displaced by systemic racism. Building Capital is the latest installment of OHNY’s Urban Systems program and is presented in partnership with Bloomberg Connects.
Bloomberg Connects Series Want to take a deeper dive into your favorite museum or cultural space—or discover somewhere new? The Bloomberg Connects series opens doors physically and digitally to promote broader access to exhibitions, collections, and renowned artists featured at museums, gardens, historic houses and other cultural institutions across the five boroughs. Bloomberg Connects is a free app that features exclusive app-only stories and insights from partner artists, curators and experts. The app offers a built in map to explore nearly 70 NYC organizations—a one-stop cultural guide to the diversity that defines NYC! It's free to download and use with no limits on how many digital guides one can explore. Bloomberg Connects can be used anywhere—onsite, for an enhanced in-person visit, or wherever you like, so all can start exploring in advance of OHNY Weekend!
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