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  • Family History Workshop: Genealogy for All Ages!

    Dec 12, 2020

    Learn how to do genealogical research, even while physically distanced, with family members of all ages! We’ll highlight activities you can do with children—particularly those engaged in distance learning—to help your family stay connected. Find creative ways to share your family stories across generations and how to get started with your genealogical research from home. This workshop will be led by Marisa Louie L...

  • 15th Annual Museums Free-for-All

    Jan 25, 2020

    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...

  • Before They Were Heroes at California Museum (Sacramento, CA)

    Jan 22, 2019 - Mar 17, 2019

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION California Museum Sacramento, CA Susumu “Sus” Ito’s WWII photographs were taken while on a tour of duty through Europe as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team’s 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. While Ito participated in such dramatic events as the rescue of the Lost Battalion, these rare and breathtaking images capture the humble daily lives of a group of young Japanese Am...

  • ZÓCALO—How Will the New Supreme Court Change America?

    Dec 18, 2018

    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...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM STATEMENT ON READER LETTER PUBLISHED BY LOS ANGELES TIMES

    Dec 06, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—Two years ago, the Los Angeles Times published two letters that attempted to justify the forced removal and unlawful incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the Western United States during World War II. After appropriate outcry from other readers and leaders in the Japanese American community—including the Japanese American National Museum—the newspaper’s then publisher and editor-in-...

  • The Words We Hold

    Dec 01, 2018

    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...

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Aug 04, 2018

    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...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO INTERIOR SECRETARY RYAN ZINKE’S COMMENT TO REP. COLLEEN HANABUSA

    Mar 17, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum is profoundly disappointed by the insulting treatment of Hawaii Representative Colleen Hanabusa by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. By flippantly responding in Japanese to her impassioned plea for the continued funding of the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program, Secretary Zinke demonstrated a shocking level of insensitivity and cultural ignoranc...

  • "Moving Day" program presented by LTHS

    Jun 15, 2017

    FREE Each night through August 11, from sunset to midnight, Moving Day presents outdoor projections of Civilian Exclusion Order posters, which were issued during World War II to inform persons of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal and incarceration. The date of each projection will coincide with the original issue date of the order being projected. Projections take place on the façade of the museu...

  • 'FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY' TRAVELING EXHIBITION TO BE INSTALLED AT MUSEUM

    May 12, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum will bring home its innovative, educational traveling exhibition, Fighting for Democracy: Who is the “We” in “We, the People”?, as its seventh stop of a national 10-city tour by installing it at the National Museum beginning May 28. Originally created to highlight the stories of seven diverse individuals and their service to their country during World War II, Fighting for Demo...