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  • Member Appreciation Days: Holiday Edition

    Nov 23, 2018 - Nov 25, 2018

    Friday–Sunday, November 23–25, 2018 Members enjoy a 20% discount at the JANM Store and janmstore.com. They also receive free museum admission and a 20% discount at several other Southern California institutions. Visit janmstore.com/membershopping in October for details, restrictions, and a list of participants. November 25 is also the second annual Museum Store Sunday; check back for details on special o...

  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Above the Fold"

    Aug 20, 2016

    Join Above the Fold: New Expressions in Origami curator Meher McArthur for an in-depth gallery tour. Limited to 25 members. RSVP to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. Photo: Erik DeMaine and Martin DeMaine, Destructors III, 2013. Photo courtesy of the artists.

  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Giant Robot Biennale 4"

    Jan 23, 2016

    All members are invited to join curator Eric Nakamura for an intimate tour of the exhibition. Limited to 25 members. RSVP to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. This event has reached capacity; no additional reservations can be accepted.

  • Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Live!

    Sep 26, 2015

    Free admission to JANM all day! In the spirit of the Smithsonian Museums, which offer free admission every day, JANM is participating in this year’s Museum Day Live. Admission will be free for all visitors.

  • The 27th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

    May 03, 2011 - May 04, 2011

    The 27th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival will be at the National Museum from May 3 to May 4. Presented by Visual Communications (VC), the nation’s premier APA media arts center, screenings will premier and showcase Asian American and International Asian cinema in the nation. The film festival screens 150 films and videos from over 20 countries. 200 industry professionals including filmmakers, celebri...

  • Crossings

    Apr 02, 2009 - Jun 21, 2009

    See the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II through the eyes of ten unique artists from the past and the present. Featuring several never before displayed works from the Museum’s collections, Crossings places art created during the war alongside contemporary work to demonstrate how artists can provide insight into a dark episode in American history and expose its lasting impact on a community...

  • Panel Discussion for the "Beliz Brother, Mei-ling Hom, and Kim Yasuda: Celebrating U.S. - Japan Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship Program" Exhibition

    May 12, 2001

    Featuring: Prof. Masako Notoji (Tokyo University), Dr. Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Dr. Richard Wood (Yale University), Professor Nagayo Homma (Seijyo University), and moderated by E. Barry Keehn, President of the Japan America Society. Panelists will examine the relationship between the US and Japan over the last 50 years, in particular, how each country impacts each other culturally, economically and socia...

  • Halloween SPOOKY Fun

    Oct 26, 1997

    Join us for a ghoulishly delightful day of storytelling and pumpkin-making. Enter our Museum Family Costume Contest and win a prize! Fun for the entire family. Invite your friends too! Spooky punch and Goblin cookies will be served. Free with Museum admission. Storytelling at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.; reservations required for 1:30 p.m. pumpkin-making FUNshop by October 22; costume contest and snacks at 3 p.m. This...

  • Creative Writers Workshop Series presented by Asian American Writer's Workshop

    Oct 25, 1997

    Los Angeles based author, Sesshu Foster (City Terrace Field Manual) will hold a creative writing class to kick off this new series. The Museum, in collaboration with the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, a non-profit collective of writers based in New York City and Los Angeles, will present a series of creative writing workshops given by noted Asian American writers. Members $5, non-members, $9 includes Museum admi...

  • Koto and Shakuhachi Concert

    May 03, 1997

    Special Performance Master musicians, Masakazu Yoshizawa on shakuhachi (bamboo flute) and Hiromi Hashibe on koto (stringed harp-like instrument), perform sokyoku (traditional classical) and contemporary music in this special concert. Woodwind specialist Masakazu Yoshizawa is a multifaceted musician, composer, and studio and concert performer who has played and recorded with Henry Mancini, John Williams, t...