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  • From Barbed Wire to Boogie Woogie

    Jun 17, 2023

    Celebrate the resilience of a community in struggle through personal storytelling, history, and swing music and dance!Discover what it was like to be a young person in camp, explore how jazz and big band music impacted the youth in America’s concentration camps, and learn how to swing dance in this two-part program.

  • Members Only Meet and Greet with Daniel James Brown

    May 14, 2022

    FREE for members In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Join for an exclusive conversation for JANM members with New York Times bestselling author of The Boys on the Boat, Daniel James Brown, and the Executive Director of Densho, Tom Ikeda. This program is FREE for all members, but RSVPs are required in advance at the link below, by email to memberevents@janm.org, or phone at 213.830.5646 by Friday, May 13th. Spac...

  • 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 ...

  • 2021 Gala & Auction: Reunited

    May 01, 2021

    Join Us at Reunited—the 2021 Gala & Auction! Celebrate JANM at a joyous evening of song, music, and special guests. This year, be Reunited with friends at our COVID-safe, virtual Gala & Auction—and support our largest annual fundraiser. The announcement of the winner of the 2021 Lexus Opportunity Drawing will also be online. Bid on unique items reflecting diverse Asian culture. New for our 2021 Gala is a video ...

  • Virtual Open House for Educators

    May 26, 2020

    FREE Join us for a brief orientation to the education resources available to you digitally through JANM. This quick, 30-minute webinar and Q&A will provide an overview of new and existing educational resources including video tutorials, lessons and curriculum, activities, and more. Connect with the Education Unit, get answers to any questions you have, and learn how JANM can support your work as an educat...

  • "Full Circle"—Mitsuye Yamada’s Book Release Celebration and Multigenerational Poetry Reading

    Aug 24, 2019

    Poet, essayist, educator, activist, and foremother of Asian American feminism, Mitsuye Yamada will read from her newest collection of poetry, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems. The celebration will also uplift the voices of generations of other Japanese American women writers, including special guests Diane Fujino, Miya Iwataki, Amy Uyematsu, Brynn Saito, and Diana Tsuchida. Live music by Kyoko Takenaka wi...

  • Film Screening—I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck

    Dec 12, 2017

    FREE One of the most acclaimed films of 2016 and an Oscar nominee for Best Documentary, I Am Not Your Negro envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words, spoken by Samuel L. Jackson, with a flood of rich archival material. Q&A to follow screening. Presented in partnership with PBS SoCal.

  • "Moving Day" program presented by JANM

    Mar 23, 2017

    Tonight marks the beginning of Moving Day, on the eve of the original issue date for Civilian Exclusion Order No. 1 (issued on March 24, 1942, to residents of Bainbridge Island, WA). Before the projection begins, join us for the first in a special series of public programs. Featured speakers are JANM volunteers Tohru Isobe and June Berk, both camp survivors, who will discuss what it was like to be forcibly remove...

  • JANM STATEMENT REGARDING THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

    Nov 10, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum respects the democratic process and its results in selecting the next president of the United States. As an institution whose mission is to promote understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity, we hope that the 45th President of the United States will remember the unlawful violation of Japanese Americans’ civil rights during World War II that led to...

  • Uprooted

    Sep 27, 2016 - Jan 08, 2017

    Between 1942 and 1944, thousands of incarcerated Japanese Americans were moved from assembly centers and concentration camps to farm labor camps as a way to mitigate the wartime labor shortage. Some 33,000 individual contracts were issued for seasonal farm labor, with many Japanese Americans assigned to work in the sugar beet industry, which played a vital role in producing munitions for the military. Under this seas...