Museum of Chinese in America – Curators in Conversation: Melissa Chiu, Director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Herb Tam, Chief Curator of The Museum of Chinese in America

  • Darwin: Deep-sea diving for food
  • Gallery 4A (foray?)
  • Coming out of college she couldn’t get a job!! In the end came to the conclusion that even tough she had some experience she had to create something for herself. “If you really want to do it, insist, because sometimes it takes more effort if you’re an outsider.”
  • It’s one thing to have a theoretical understanding, another to understand how these issue play out in practice.
  • “We did many jobs at the time”
  • Push toward virtual that we all talked about before for nearly a decade and nobody could really do it. “Museums are really figuring out what it means to have a presence that is virtual where they never did before.”