EDUCATION
As an educator, explore Wing Luke Museum which is a resource for students of all ages. Help your classroom experience history first-hand through immersive stories of American citizens, immigrants, and refugees, and learn how they helped transform our nation, state, and region.
BRINGING AANHPI HISTORY TO LIFE
Wing Luke Museum is the only museum in North America focused on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history. The programs here seek to provide students and curious minds with immersive ways to engage with an essential part of American history.
EDUCATOR RESOURCES
Classroom resources, training for teachers, digital interactive multimedia resources, and short documentary films for the classroom based in AANHPI history and culture.
EDUCATOR TRAINING & WORKSHOPS
Professional training for K-12 educators, museum educators, and others seeking additional training to develop cultural competency in teaching history, and developing culturally and racially equitable curricula.
SCHOOL VISITS & PARTNERSHIPS
From curriculum training to school tours, our experiences are grade-level appropriate and adhere to state and national standards in ELA and Social Studies.
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE SITES
Learn more about historic places, federal lands, and state parks of the Pacific Northwest that tell the story of early Asian Pacific American pioneer contributions in the West. Produced in partnership with the US Forest Service (USFS).
WING LUKE MUSEUM GOVERNOR GARY LOCKE LIBRARY & COMMUNITY HERITAGE CENTER
Currently, the library is closed to the public; however, limited online databases are available.
The Wing Luke Museum Governor Gary Locke Library and Community Heritage Center collects, preserves, and provides access to archives, photographs, artifacts, and oral histories concerning the history, art, and culture of local, regional, and national Asian Pacific American communities.
Gain access to more than 47,000 resources and materials including books, periodicals, oral and video histories, photographs, historic documents, and other artifacts. All library and collections materials must be viewed onsite in the library on the third floor of Wing Luke Museum.
FREE to the public by appointment — admission fee to The Wing not required.
For research assistance or inquiries about finding specific artifacts or collections please contact the Education Department
VIEW THE TAKANO STUDIO COLLECTION
Takano Studio was a Japanese photo studio opened around 1920 by Tay Takano, and later run by Henry & Yuki Miyake at 316 Maynard Ave in Seattle's Nihonmachi. From the Takano Studio collection, we see a thriving Japanese American community before the relocation and incarceration of all persons of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast during World War II.
"All are posed photos, perhaps to send to friends and relatives back in Japan, or to record milestones for a business or organization. What we see are only those who could afford a photo at the time"
Photo from Wing Luke Museum Collection 2007.036.106