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  • SoCal Museums Free-for-All 2024

    Mar 23, 2024

    SoCal Museums announces the Museums Free-for-All on Saturday, March 23, 2024. Over thirty museums—presenting art, cultural heritage, film, natural history, and science—will open their doors and offer free general admission. The Free-for-All also serves as a reminder that free visitor days are available year-round at museums across Southern California. A calendar of free days can be found at socalmuseums.org/free....

  • 2023 Benefit & Online Auction

    May 13, 2023

    Join us as we honor our rich history, engage future generations, and celebrate the stories of JANM’s supporters from across the nation, and across generations. The festivities include dinner in the elegant InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, an online auction, and a program that pays tribute to JANM’s leaders and supporters who see and believe in the importance of the Museum and its enduring role in our democr...

  • Premiere Screening and Q&A—We Said No! No!

    Oct 15, 2022

    $20 general, $10 member Join JANM for the world premiere of the new award-winning documentary film, We Said No! No!, by director Brian Maeda. The film combines interviews with Japanese Americans and their family members who were once derisively referred to as “No No Boys.” The film features archival footage and dramatic reenactments of incidents in the Tule Lake Segregation Center. A Q&A with the cast and crew wil...

  • Nima Voices: Episode 9—Greg Robinson

    Jul 12, 2022

    Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening, interviews. In the ninth episode, Greg Robinson, a noted author and scholar of Japanese American and Japanese Canadian history, will be interviewed by guest host Lisa Doi, a curatorial assistant at the Japanese American National Museum and a PhD Student in American Studies at Indiana University. Greg has been contribut...

  • Virtual Artist Talk—Inspired by Miné

    Jan 29, 2022

    EVENT UPDATE Due to the rapidly increasing COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County due to the Omicron variant, this program will now be held virtually. The safety of our community is of paramount importance to us, as is our obligation as a public institution to do our part to support efforts to inhibit the spread of the COVID-19 virus. We will continue to monitor public health guidelines and reassess a...

  • Museum Store Sunday

    Nov 28, 2021

    November 28, 2021, will mark the fifth annual Museum Store Sunday. To celebrate the new 101 Americans Tea Cup, any tea cup or mug purchase on that day will be paired with a sample of one of our signature Generations Teas. Your sample of tea will be chosen for you from our selection. (One tea sample per cup ordered) 101 Americans Tea Cup

  • The Unsung Great: Uncovering Nikkei Histories with Greg Robinson

    Jun 12, 2021

    $10 general / FREE for members In his newest book, The Unsung Great: Stories of Extraordinary Japanese Americans, scholar and journalist Greg Robinson reveals the diverse experiences of Japanese Americans and explores a wealth of themes, including mixed-race families, artistic pioneers, mass confinement, civil rights activism, and queer history. Robinson will speak more to his process uncovering these stories ...

  • JANM Digital Film Festival—Crossroads: Boyle Heights Q&A

    Dec 18, 2020

    A neighborhood is made up of people and places. It is defined through the experiences of those who consider it home. And it holds their hopes for the future and their memories of the past. In 2002, the exhibition, Boyle Heights: The Power of Place, celebrated these experiences and memories of Boyle Heights, a vibrant, multiethnic, and multicultural Los Angeles neighborhood. The short film, Crossroads: Boyle Heights (...

  • Justice Bradley’s Reference to Korematsu is Insensitive and Offensive

    May 08, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA – One of the goals of the Japanese American National Museum is to preserve and share the history of people of Japanese ancestry in the United States. As the Chair of its Board of Trustees, I am usually pleased to hear public figures cite sections of that history to argue a point or draw historic parallels. After the 9/11 attacks, for instance, President George W. Bush warned against profiling Muslims ...

  • TRANSPACIFIC MUSICLANDS OUTDOOR CONCERT SET FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Sep 22, 2017

    Los Angeles, CA—In conjunction with its new Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo exhibition, the Japanese American National Museum will present Transpacific Musiclands, an outdoor concert celebrating cultural exchange between East Los Angeles and Japan on Saturday, October 14, from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tickets for Transpacific Musiclands are on sale no...