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Deets: This month, Metro Art will launch a new exhibit, Where You Stand: Chinatown 1880 to 1939, in Los Angeles Union Station’s Waiting Room Gallery.

Union Station stands at the site of Los Angeles’ original Chinatown. Where You Stand: LA Chinatown 1880-1939 invites Angelenos into the center of the vibrant community of families, businesses and associations through historic photographs, oral history recordings and augmented reality. Audiences can explore Union Station’s historical layers, formerly a collection of alleyways, streets, and buildings that was once home to thousands of Chinese residents beginning in 1880. The augmented reality experience component of this project blends historical research with creative website and AR technology to recover the neighborhood of the original Chinatown of Los Angeles. Visitors will be able to use their mobile devices to scan the QR codes on the exhibition to see images designed to repopulate this place with the lives of the people who lived and worked there.

 The year-long temporary exhibit will extend to Fall 2024 and is part of a wider collaboration among Metro Art, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, USC Cinematic Arts, and the Huntington Library that will culminate in an augmented reality (AR) experience and associated project website made possible in part with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Hint for the Average Socialite: This exhibit is free and open to the public!

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