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  • NUNO Textiles and Sherry Remez Trunk Show

    Nov 16, 2024 - Nov 17, 2024

    Shop this season’s essentials during this special textile celebration featuring clothing and accessories from NUNO Textiles and handmade jewelry by Sherry Remez.Saturday, November 16: NUNO Textiles and Sherry RemezSunday, November 17: NUNO TextilesHours: 11 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (both days)NUNO combines traditional weaving technologies with state-of-the-art materials to produce unique fabric and apparel that reflect centuri...

  • JANM Hosts Manzanar Baseball Project Program December 7

    Nov 15, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host a program and panel discussion about the Manzanar Baseball Project, on Saturday, December 7, 2024, from 2 p.m.–4 p.m. Admission is $16 ($9 seniors, students, and youth, free for JANM Members) and includes entry to the Museum. Tickets are available at janm.org/events.During the 1940s, baseball was the national pastime of the US, including in Amer...

  • JANM Announces October 2024 Programs

    Sep 24, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces its schedule of October 2024 programs. Tickets are $16 ($9 for seniors and students, free for JANM Members) unless otherwise noted and will be available at janm.org/events. Upcoming dates for public programs and events are:Tuesday, October 1, 2024Breakfast and Ballots9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.FreeDo you have questions about the election? How does Prop 5 ...

  • NEH Awards $190,000 Education Grant to JANM

    Sep 20, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) a $190,000 Landmarks of American History and Culture for K–12 Educators Grant for the project, Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations 2025. JANM has been the recipient of this grant for the third year in a row. The project will support two five-day, residential workshops for ...

  • JANM to Open Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection on October 19

    Sep 04, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present the exhibition, Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection, on view from October 19, 2024 – January 5, 2025. The online press gallery is available at janm.org/press/images/contested-histories. During World War II, Japanese Americans incarcerated in America's concentration camps demonstrated their resilience, ingenuity...

  • 2024 Natsumatsuri Family Festival

    Aug 10, 2024

    FREE ALL DAYJoin our annual summer celebration featuring free cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages!Performances by Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko and East LA TaikoBook readings with Nadine Sachiko HsuSouvenir photos by cre8tive outletsFun summer-themed crafts and origamiScavenger hunt for prizesAnd so much more! Plus, free admission all day to see all of our exhibitions Giant Robo...

  • JANM and JACCC Awarded $894,293 in Grants for New Core Exhibition and Foodways Programs

    Aug 07, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) have received $894,293 in two grants from the National Park Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program. The funds will support JANM’s new core exhibition, In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy, and the JACCC’s project, “Ask the Mountain for ...

  • JANM Book Club: Most Honorable Son with Gregg Jones

    Aug 03, 2024

    Join author Gregg Jones for a discussion around his newest book, Most Honorable Son, which is the first comprehensive biography of Japanese American World War II hero Ben Kuroki.The JANM Book Club is a series of Public Programs that highlights new publications by Japanese Americans or related to Japanese American history and culture. About the bookA Nebraska farm boy who enlisted following the attack on Pearl Harbor...

  • Premiere Screening of "Life Interrupted: A Special Arkansas Reunion" - Private Invitation Only

    Jul 20, 2006

    Did you attend the Camp Connections conference in Little Rock, Arkansas? Join the National Museum for a special reunion and release of the new video documentary Life Interrupted: A Special Arkansas Reunion, produced by the award-winning Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center. Relive and reflect on this remarkable trip to Arkansas. Light reception to follow. Visit www.janm.org/media/lifeinterrupted to learn more about t...

  • An Enduring Odyssey: Masayo Duus and Peter Duus Talk About the Life and Times of Isamu Noguchi

    Mar 18, 2006

    * * * RESCHEDULED! This program was originally scheduled for February 19, 2006, but was unfortunately postponed. Thankfully, we were able to reschedule with the authors. * * * In the book, The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders, Masayo Duus has written what many consider the definitive biography of the influential artist. For this event, she is joined by her husband--historian a...