Yin Yu Tang A Chinese Home

During the Qing Dynasty, a prosperous Chinese merchant from Anhui Province built a stately sixteen-bedroom house in China's southeastern Huizhou region and named it Yin Yu Tang, meaning "Hall of Plentiful Shelter." It was home to the Huang family for more than two hundred years. Representing Chinese culture from the 1790s to the 1980s, the house reveals the Huizhou region's unique architectural style as well as diverse cultural changes that occurred in China throughout the home's occupancy. Relocated from its original location in China in 1997, it was transformed from a multigenerational family residence into an historic house in a museum setting at PEM. Yin Yu Tang has been interpreted as it appeared when the Huang family last occupied it in 1982, offering rare perspectives into Chinese art, architecture, and culture through the history of the house, its owners, and objects.

Salem, Massachusetts · United States