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  • Dan Kwong: "What? No Ping Pong Balls"

    Jun 03, 2018

    Performance artist Dan Kwong teams up with taiko artist Kenny Endo for this moving and hilarious tribute to Kwong’s rebellious late mother, Momo Nagano. Kwong traces Nagano’s journey from her all-American girlhood in Los Angeles to World War II incarceration camp, her life as a single mother raising four kids, and her transformation from housewife to Venice Beach artist. By including video interviews with other Ja...

  • Author Discussion—"Japan: A Reverence for Beauty" by Gil Garcetti

    Sep 26, 2015

    FREE During more than 10 trips to Japan over a period of five years, author and photographer (and former Los Angeles County District Attorney) Gil Garcetti captured the stunning images reproduced in this limited edition, hardbound portfolio. The photographs are accompanied by illuminating essays, in both English and Japanese, from such noted authors as Pico Iyer, Kendall Brown, Hitoshi Abe, and Atsuko Tanaka. ...

  • Member Appreciation Days (MAD)

    Dec 01, 2013

    Friday-Sunday, November 29-30 & December 1 MAD is in its 10th year! National Members get a 20% discount at the Museum Store and janmstore.com, plus free admission and a 20% discount at 16 other participating Southern California institutions including museums, libraries, and other cultural sites like the California Science Center, Craft and Folk Art Museum, MOCA, Pacific Asia Museum, and the The San Diego Museu...

  • Member Appreciation Days (MAD)

    Nov 29, 2013

    Friday-Sunday, November 29-30 & December 1 MAD is in its 10th year! National Members get a 20% discount at the Museum Store and janmstore.com, plus free admission and a 20% discount at 16 other participating Southern California institutions including museums, libraries, and other cultural sites like the California Science Center, Craft and Folk Art Museum, MOCA, Pacific Asia Museum, and the The San Diego Museu...

  • 2005 National Summer Institute for Educators -- Diversity and Democracy

    Jul 20, 2005

    July 20-23, 2005 * By invitation only Twenty-nine educators from seven states will culminate their two-year commitment as participants in the National Summer Institute for Educators. Participants will present the lesson plans that they have created over the past year and discuss how the intertwined issues of diversity and democracy affect their students, their schools, and their profession.

  • Discovering Your Family Tree Workshop (Instructor: Chester Hashizume)

    Jun 27, 2004

    This workshop will provide tips on creating your own family tree and will offer sources of information to help identify ancestors and relatives in Japan. You will also learn to access your family tree in the National Museum's Family Registry. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission.

  • Discovering Your Family Tree Workshop (Instructor: Chester Hashizume)

    Feb 29, 2004

    This workshop will provide tips on creating your own family tree and will offer sources of information to help identify ancestors and relatives in Japan. You will also learn to access your family tree in the National Museum's Family Registry. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission.

  • Up Close and Personal: Inside L.A.’s Locker Rooms

    Jul 08, 2000

    2ND SATURDAY AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM Panel Discussion and Q&A for the More Than a Game Exhibition Featuring Tim Kawakami, Los Angeles Times, and Rob Fukuzaki, ABC7 Eyewitness News Whether they are in the locker room with the Los Angeles Lakers or at a press conference at the Staples Center, Tim Kawakami and Rob Fukuzaki are important names in the high-profile world of Los Angeles professional sports. In a profe...

  • Estelle Ishigo Collection

    (94.195) The online collection of Estelle Peck Ishigo (1899-1990) covers life in the Pomona detention center in California and in the Heart Mountain, Wyoming camp during World War II. Includes 120 drawings, sketches, and watercolors. EXPLORE THE COLLECTION

  • Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues—Bios

    In celebration of its 50th issue and in collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum, the pop-culture magazine Giant Robot has assembled works by ten cutting-edge artists from around the country in Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues.