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  • Member Appreciation Days

    Nov 26, 2021 - Nov 28, 2021

    Holiday shopping that counts! For three days only, all current JANM members receive 20% off on applicable merchandise! *ONLINE ORDERS ONLY* Visit janmstore.com/membershopping for discount code and instructions on how to receive the 20% off discount. Not a current member? Join today! Special MUSEUM STORE SUNDAY OFFER: A free sample of one of our signature Generations Teas for every museum patron who ...

  • Nima Voices: Episode 6—Christine Piper

    Sep 07, 2021

    Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories. Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening, interviews...

  • Post Election Discussion for Educators

    Nov 10, 2020 - Nov 24, 2020

    FREE The Education Unit of the Japanese American National Museum invites teachers and educators to an informal, virtual post-election discussion to respectfully share thoughts, questions, hopes and anxieties. How can we support our students as our democracy looks to the future in a climate of continued uncertainty and division? What does this look like in our teaching practice? These gatherings have no particular ...

  • 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...

  • REFLECTIONS/REFRACTIONS—Ten Works Inspired by "At First Light"

    Sep 19, 2019

    FREE An ad man coined the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” in the 1920s to emphasize the power of graphics to compel the viewer to adopt an idea or buy a product. But a picture can also be the springboard for new interpretations and the reimagination of the physical object, people, or places depicted. In that spirit, we reached out to ten literary arts practitioners to visit the At First Light: The...

  • "Moving Day" program presented by Visual Communications

    Apr 20, 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...

  • Panel Discussion—What Does the Japanese American Experience Tell Us About the Proposed Muslim Registry?

    Jan 18, 2017

    In advocating for a registry to track all Muslims living in or immigrating to the US, President-elect Donald Trump and his followers are raising the specter of the World War II incarceration, without due process, of 120,000 people of Japanese descent, most of whom were US citizens and all of whom were innocent of any crimes. Even though President Ronald Reagan formally apologized for the incarceration and authorize...

  • DOCUMENTARY ON PIONEER CONGRESSWOMAN PATSY MINK TO SCREEN OCT. 30

    Oct 23, 2010

    "Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority", an award-winning documentary that chronicles the life of pioneer Congresswoman Patsy Mink, will be screened on Saturday, Oct. 30, at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. Mink, the first woman of color to be elected to Congress in 1965, spent her life fighting racial and gender discrimination and left a lasting legacy with her authoring of the Title IX legislation th...

  • JA WWII RADIO BROADCASTERS PROGRAM SET FOR JULY 10

    Jul 01, 2010

    The documentary, "Calling Tokyo", that tells the little-known story of the role played by Japanese Americans as government broadcasters during World War II, will be screened as part of a public program set for Saturday, July 10, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. While the U.S. government unconstitutionally incarcerated 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during the wa...

  • Judgments Judged, Wrongs Remembered: Examining the Japanese American Civil Liberties Cases of World War II

    Nov 06, 2004

    Please refer to the November 5th event information.