Yin Yu Tang House @Peabody Essex Museum — Local services in Salem

I was able to visit when I purchased a ticket 🎟️ to the Peabody Essex Museum. It was a little bit like going back 🔙 in time without the TARDIS or a DeLorean. There are two floors to walk, 16 bedrooms and two fish ponds. Displays are set up depicting what it was like to live in the time period of early Communist China. The building was built in the 18th Century and has been remarkably preserved. There is a video on display showing the deconstruction from its original location in the southeastern Huizhou region, Anhui province from the village of Huang Cun. The house was built during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and the house's name translates "Hall of Plentiful Shelter". The reconstructed house was officially reopened in Salem in June 2003. According to this house's Wikipedia page 📄, it is the only house 🏠 in North America to have historic Chinese vernacular architecture. There is a museum 🖼️ attached to the house with interesting artifacts and photos. It is...

Wow the Yin Yu Tang house is awesome. They completely disassembled an entire giant house, stuck it all on a boat, brought it to Salem, and build the entire house again inside the museum. Wow if thats not a feat of modern engineering I don’t know what is. It’s a house of an old multi generation family that went through a lot of prosperity and trials and slaughter during the Chinese revolution that was basically genocide.

The house has a cool layout. You have basically all the rooms of the house facing inward looking at a central square. All the family members could come to this square and socialize. A great way of maintaining family dynamics.

The house is awesome, well...

We went to see the YIN YU TANG house with family from out of town but unfortunately the lady in charge of the group was too severe with us. We're adults, we're not kids. My cousin came from NYC with his 2 kids and wife. We both are Chinese Martial arts teacher's (Tai chi) and we just wanted to take a couple of nice photo's wearing our traditional Kung-fu uniforms, but she was too harassing and consistently disapproving anything we tried to do. We love Chinese art and we were very cautious in not breaking anything. She also had a gentleman assisting her on the upper level who was not at all customer friendly. I truly left the...