The Indo-American Heritage Museum (IAHM) is dedicated to increasing awareness and appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of Indian Americans and showcasing their outstanding contributions to the building of America.

Indo-American Heritage Museum on NPR's Morning Edition!
Listen to Lynette Kalsnes capture the essence of IAHM's Ethnic Dialogue with teachers from Chicago Public Schools.

Rollicking Good Times at Indo-American Heritage Museum Event
Our first 2010 event, Spring Into Comedy, showcased some of the finest comedians of South Asian heritage. 

Whereas the word “museum” might bring to mind stuffy rooms filled with displays in glass cases, IAHM, which holds its programs at Chicago’s Indo-American Center at 6328 N. California Avenue, engages visitors and volunteers in lively, interactive sessions and uses the living museum of the Indo-Pak business district along Devon Avenue in fulfilling its mission to promote understanding of the diversity, history, and culture of Indian Americans and showcase their contributions and achievements. 

IAHM is a community-based, grass roots organization.  The museum's Virtual Galleries at its website include little known facts about the earliest arrivals from India and invite visitors to share stories of their immigrant experience. 

The Museum is open by appointment between 10am and 5pm Monday-Saturday. To make an appointment or request information on programs, email info@iahmuseum.org.

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• The first Indian in the United States is said to have been a man from Madras who visited Salem, Massachusetts in 1790?
  Learn more about early Indian visitors to the United States
• Indians served in the U.S. military during the Civil War?
  Learn more about Indians in the military
• The first Sikh gurudwara in the U.S. was established in Stockton, California in 1912?
  Learn more about how Indian Americans have transformed the religious landscape of the United States

 

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CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNITY DISCUSSION HOSTED BY THE CHICAGO CULTURAL ALLIANCE

Summer 2010

Talking About... Identity
and the HAPA* photo exhibition
Saturday, 10 July, 9-11am
Field Museum
(Free admission and bus transportation from Devon)
Participants: Adults
Space is limited, Register by July 6

Talking About... Im/migration
Sunday, 1 August, 1-3pm
Levy Activity Center,
300 Dodge Ave., Evanston, IL
Participants: Asian Indian Immigrants
Register by July 26

Contact Rima Mukherjee at programs@iahmuseum.org to register.

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