AAPI Mobile History Museum

The traveling AAPI History Museum exhibit has displayed at:

AAPI History Museum
Brown University
PVD Fest
Lowell Cambodian New Year
West Warwick Library
Park View Middle School
Atria Senior Living
The Learning Community

The AAPI Mobile History Museum is a traveling exhibit created by the AAPI History Museum, showcasing different AAPI journeys. Given the range of unique expereinces under one able, this mobile museum asks: what can we accomplish by celebrating our different yet interconnected histories? For The Cambodian American Journey module, the AAPI Mobile History Museum partnered with local Khmer photographer Kannetha Brown to use portraits from her Two Oceans project, centering photographs of the Cambodian community in Providence.

“We chose her photos for the Mobile Museum because as a Khmer American herself, she brings an authentic and modern lens to her work. Most Americans know about the Vietnam War but they know less about the Cambodian and Laos civil wars. Kannetha’s work fixes that and more importantly, serves as a bridge overlooking reflections of the past while leading us out of it— Putting faces to stories and cementing Khmer Americans’ place into local history.” –Setha Phongsavan, Acting Museum Manager

More information here.