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  • Contested Histories: Whispers from the Past

    Dec 14, 2024

    Discover the process of creating Contested Histories and uncovering the stories behind the objects with the exhibition’s curator and the Museum’s Vice President of Exhibitions and Art Director, Clement Hanami, and project coordinator, Dina Furumoto. The project traveled over 400 objects from the controversial Allen Hendershott Eaton collection across the US. Hanami and Furumoto will show behind-the-scenes videos and ...

  • JANM Book Club Series Returns August 3

    Jul 18, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces the lineup of authors for the summer and fall 2024 JANM Book Club, a public program series that highlights new publications by Japanese Americans or related to Japanese American history and culture. The featured authors are Gregg Jones, traci kato-kiriyama, Christine Kitano, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Matthew Mejia, Denice Kumagai-Hoy, Marilyn Tokuda, ...

  • Members’ Reception and Tour of "From Bento to Mixed Plate" at Maui Arts and Cultural Center

    Dec 12, 2003

    Maui Arts and Cultural Center Maui, Hawai`i National Museum members are invited to attend a pre-opening reception and tour of From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese American Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center in Kahului, Maui. For more information, please contact Rene Tomita in the National Museum’s Honolulu office at 808.946.5417 or via email at rtomita@janm.org.

  • Renovation Information

    Redesigning the JANM CampusIn January 2025, JANM will begin work on the most significant change to its Pavilion since it opened in 1999—a renovation of our Pavilion and an ambitious reimagining of our core exhibition.Over the next two years, JANM will create a new core exhibition, In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy. The exhibition will re-imagine how it tells the stories of Japanese A...

  • Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market—Artist

    Glenn Kaino was born in 1972 in Los Angeles. His studio practice includes sculpture, painting, filmmaking, performance, installation, and large-scale public work. He also operates outside the traditional purview of contemporary art, instigating collaborations with other modes of culture—ranging from tech to music to political organizing. Major solo exhibitions of Kaino’s work have been presented at MASS MoCA, High ...

  • Hirasaki National Resource Center

    Since its inception in 1985, the Japanese American National Museum has chronicled more than 130 years of Japanese American history—from the first Issei generation through the World War II incarceration to the present-day. In 1999, the museum established the Manabi and Sumi Hirasaki National Resource Center (HNRC) to ensure that the story of Japanese Americans remains accessible to everyone.

  • Our Promise—Revitalize

    Redesign and repurpose JANM’s campus to provide welcoming, cohesive, and dynamic spaces for everyone ($25 million). Our new core exhibition will take visitors on a journey that begins with curiosity and ends with action.The Japanese American story is a quintessential American story in the making. Our core exhibition will showcase the American story as one that is—and has always been—intrinsically multiracial, mult...

  • Our Promise—Amplify

    Re-energize the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy as a platform for civic engagement with events and issues that shape our nation—including race, the fragility of democracy, shared values, civil rights and social justice, and the arts ($7.5 million). As we reimagine our spaces, we must also reshape our programs to tell stories in powerful ways through the National Center for the Preservation of Dem...

  • Watanabe Democracy Fellowship

    Learn about the Toshizo Watanabe Democracy Fellowship fosters a network of emerging Japanese leaders committed to strengthening global democracy and deepening the US-Japan relationship.

  • Sugar/Islands: Finding Okinawa in Hawai‘i—The Art of Laura Kina and Emily Hanako Momohara - Events

    Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.