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Contested Histories at Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
2026年02月04日 - 2026年03月15日
TRAVELING DISPLAYOberlin College Mary Church Terrell Main LibraryOberlin, OHOn view during library open hours. For more information, visit libraries.oberlin.edu. During World War II, Japanese Americans incarcerated in America's concentration camps demonstrated their resilience, ingenuity, and creativity, from crafting necessities like furniture and tools to creating works of art. In 2015, thanks to the efforts of com...
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JANM Mourns the Passing of Barbara Keimi
2025年12月22日
Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Barbara Keimi. She and her husband, Harold “Hal” Keimi, began volunteering at JANM nearly thirty-four years ago—before JANM opened its doors to the public in its Historic Building in 199...
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JANM Congratulates Ann Burroughs on Receiving the Bar Association of the District of Columbia’s Pioneer Award
2025年12月06日
Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) congratulates President and CEO, Ann Burroughs, on receiving the Annice M. Wagner Pioneer Award from the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (BADC). The Annice M. Wagner Pioneer Award is one of the hi...
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December and Early January Programs Include “Cruising J-Town” Finale and Oshogatsu Family Festival
2025年11月25日
Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo.PSALOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) celebrates the finale of Cruising J-Town in Pasadena and hosts a film screening about the speed shop Mooneyes at the Democracy Center. East West Players’ 60th anniversary commemorative event, Discover Nikke...
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JANM Book Club: Monster Maker with Debbi Michiko Florence and Mark Nagata
2025年11月15日
Join author Debbi Michiko Florence and artist Mark Nagata for a special reading of Debbi’s new book Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata. Then stick around for a conversation with them moderated by Maria Kwong, JANM’s Director of Retail Enterprise and curator of Kaiji vs Heroes, the exhibition that first connected Debbi to Mark!Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata is a biographical accou...
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The Democracy Center Invites the Community to Share Their “Wish for America” Ahead of Nation’s 250th Birthday
2025年11月05日
Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) invites the community to view wishes for America in the Historic Building display window next to the Democracy Cent...
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JANM and ArtCenter to Present Cruising J-Town, a New Exhibition Exploring Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles
2025年06月26日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in partnership with ArtCenter College of Design, will present Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community as part of JANM on the Go. On view from July 31–November 12, 2025 in the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery located at ArtCenter’s south campus in Pasadena, the exhibition celebrates Southern California’s love affair with the automobile thr...
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JANM Presents The Oath of the Sword at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on May 28, 2023
2023年05月08日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present the premiere screening of the recently restored 1914 silent film The Oath of the Sword at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, on Sunday, May 28, 2023, at 2 p.m. PDT. Tickets are $5 ($4 for members of the Academy Museum or JANM) and are available at academymuseum.org/calendar. Once thought to be lost, the sole surviving prin...
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The Japanese American National Museum Welcomes Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
2023年04月18日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) welcomes Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a lively roster of events. More information and tickets for the events are available at janm.org/events. More information and tickets for the exhibition, Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps, are available at janm.org/dont-fence-me-in. Don’t Fence Me In: Comin...
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Under a Mushroom Cloud
2019年11月09日 - 2021年07月25日
To commemorate the upcoming 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese American National Museum presents Under a Mushroom Cloud: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Atomic Bomb, organized in partnership with the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Through March 1, 2020, the exhibition will include a special display of artifacts belonging to atomic bomb victims. On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Enol...