Yao, who was picked to lead the new Smithsonian museum through design and construction, said she needs to prioritise her family

Nancy Yao, the director of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America, will take the helm at the in-development Washington, DC museum in June

A $118m project to expand the Museum of Chinese in America in New York kicks off amid protests centring on plans for a massive new “skyscraper” jail

Demonstrators argue the museum is complicit in mass incarceration and the gentrification of Chinatown

Members of the collective argue that the museum implicitly supported construction of a jail

Viewers can track the recovery after the blaze and view hundreds of images of the New York museum’s artefacts

Salvaging effort focuses on the remaining 80 percent of the archives of the Museum of Chinese in America

Curator says that conservators might be able to dry many wet objects in the museum’s archive

An estimated 85,000 items are feared lost, including letters, antique wedding dresses and photographs