Established in 1996, the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum is one of America’s foremost institutions dedicated to sharing the Chinese American experience, and to promoting Chinese art and culture. The group originally formed to preserve and share Chinese and Chinese American history and culture with meetings in the Horton Grand Hotel. In the 1990s, when a historic mission building, the former church and school of the local Chinese community, was slated for demolition, the San Diego Chinese Historical Society rallied to save it. The City approved of the plans to relocate the building to its current location at the heart of old Chinatown at the corner of J Street and Third Avenue.

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