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Collecting and Preserving a Community’s History
2021年09月23日
FREE Do you have objects at home that you think belong in a community archive? Have you ever wondered about how items end up inside museums or displayed at historic sites? Learn how these institutions collect and maintain their historic collections, the challenges this type of work entails, and how people can help prepare their collections if they are interested in having them considered for intake. Hear...
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Post Election Discussion for Educators
2020年11月10日 - 2020年11月24日
FREE The Education Unit of the Japanese American National Museum invites teachers and educators to an informal, virtual post-election discussion to respectfully share thoughts, questions, hopes and anxieties. How can we support our students as our democracy looks to the future in a climate of continued uncertainty and division? What does this look like in our teaching practice? These gatherings have no particular ...
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15th Annual Museums Free-for-All
2020年01月25日
FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY In an effort to make museums available to the broadest possible audience, JANM joins with more than 40 other regional museums in offering free admission on this day. Take advantage of free admission to come see Under a Mushroom Cloud: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Atomic Bomb and Common Ground: The Heart of Community. For a complete list of participating institutions, visit socalmuseum...
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ZÓCALO—How Will the New Supreme Court Change America?
2018年12月18日
A Zócalo/UCLA Downtown Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Jess Bravin, Supreme Court Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal It’s age-old wisdom: Every single new justice creates a brand-new US Supreme Court. But some legal scholars are suggesting that the court taking shape now, with a conservative majority established by President Trump’s second appo...
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The Words We Hold
2018年12月01日
If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. FREE Stories of World War II, hailing from both sides of the Pacific, paint a picture of how Japanese and Japanese American ancestors experienced everyday life during those treacherous times. Yonsei Nicole Cherry and Kristen Hayashi, and shin-Nikkei Ayumi Nagata and Natsumi Shibata will share personal family stories pa...
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"Common Ground" Exhibition Tour
2018年08月04日
PAY WHAT YOU WISH Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the landmark legislation that brought incarceration camp survivors an apology from the US government and monetary reparations, the last section of Common Ground is being reimagined to further emphasize the historic a...
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"Moving Day"
2017年03月23日 - 2017年08月11日
If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. March 23 – August 11, 2017 Daily from sunset to midnight In conjunction with the exhibition Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, JANM presents Moving Day, an outdoor public art installation. The work consists of a series of projections of the Civilian Exclusion Orders that were publicly poste...
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"Above the Fold" Lecture by Robert Lang
2016年07月16日
SOLD OUT The last 15 years have been witness to a revolution in the application of mathematical techniques to origami, the centuries-old Japanese art of paper-folding. Exhibiting artist Robert J. Lang is recognized as one of the foremost origami artists in the world as well as a pioneer in computational origami and the development of formal design algorithms for folding. In this talk, he will describe ho...
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TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL GALA DINNER
2014年03月27日
Tickets for the Japanese American National Museum’s 2014 Gala Dinner, Silent Auction & After Party at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, on Saturday, April 12, are still available, as are tickets for the event’s accompanying Lexus Opportunity Drawing for a 2015 Lexus RC F. The dinner’s theme, “Evolving Pastimes: Connecting Communities & Generations through Sports,” will celebrate athletes and sp...