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Mai Wah Museum

17 West Mercury Street,
Butte
Montana
USA
59703
406-723-3231

Type: Museum
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 11:00am -5:00pm

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Chinese miners came to Butte to work the mines. Later these mines were abandoned as the placer mining era declined, and the Chinese were relegated to work in laundries, domestic services and noodle parlors. The Mai Wah and Wah Chong Tai buildings are adjacent to China Alley, a narrow thoroughfare between Galena and Mercury Streets in uptown Butte. The Mai Wah is a historic building in what was Chinatown. Once a mercantile and noodle parlor, the building now houses exhibits to interpret Asian history in Butte and the Rocky Mountain West. In the summer of 2003, the Mai Wah Society, Inc. will host ‘Gateway to Gold Mountain,' a traveling exhibition, at the Mai Wah Museum. The exhibit tells the story of Angel Island, the immigration station in San Francisco Bay, the entry point into the United States for more than 175,000 Chinese immigrants between 1910 and 1940. The exhibition was designed by the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded more than 20 years ago by citizens committed to preserving the deteriorating immigration station barracks. Angel Island is a National Historic Landmark. Many Chinese called the new land of opportunity ‘Gam Saan' or Gold Mountain. However, the world they found was very different from the world they imagined. This exhibit discusses the hopes and fears of the immigrants as well as the discrimination they faced trying to gain entry to America.
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Last updated May 10, 2008
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