From December 2023 to October 2024, Molly Rose Merkert worked on the Where is Denver’s Chinatown? Stories Remembered Reclaimed Reimagined exhibit at History Colorado. This process included historical research, exhibit design, and team communication. The exhibit opened on October 9, 2024 and will close on August 9, 2025.

Merkert wrote:

History Colorado’s Where is Denver’s Chinatown? exhibit is an impressive display of Community-Institution collaboration that was a positive experience for the parties involved. The museum centered the voices of Chinatown descendants and their families. Community members were also compensated for their work by the museum.

Work on this exhibit is being discussed across the country at several conferences. I have presented at APIAHiP Forum in Seattle, Washington, and at the Saving Places conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In April, I will be presenting at the Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums Annual Meeting in Greeley, Colorado.

Moving forward, I am the Assistant Curator for a CU Denver lecture series called Becoming Chinatown. These three lectures will bring together scholars and activists from across North America to speak about the issues Chinatowns face, the work currently going on in North American Chinatowns, and the possible future for Denver’s Chinatown.

From December 2023 to October 2024, Molly Rose Merkert worked on the Where is Denver’s Chinatown? Stories Remembered Reclaimed Reimagined exhibit at History Colorado. This process included historical research, exhibit design, and team communication. The exhibit opened on October 9, 2024 and will close on August 9, 2025.

Merkert wrote:

History Colorado’s Where is Denver’s Chinatown? exhibit is an impressive display of Community-Institution collaboration that was a positive experience for the parties involved. The museum centered the voices of Chinatown descendants and their families. Community members were also compensated for their work by the museum.

Work on this exhibit is being discussed across the country at several conferences. I have presented at APIAHiP Forum in Seattle, Washington, and at the Saving Places conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In April, I will be presenting at the Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums Annual Meeting in Greeley, Colorado.

Moving forward, I am the Assistant Curator for a CU Denver lecture series called Becoming Chinatown. These three lectures will bring together scholars and activists from across North America to speak about the issues Chinatowns face, the work currently going on in North American Chinatowns, and the possible future for Denver’s Chinatown.