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  • Member Appreciation Days: Shopping from Home

    May 08, 2020 - May 15, 2020

    20% Member Discount for 8 days! Friday, May 8 – Friday, May 15 Throughout these challenging times, JANM Members have continued to show immense generosity and dedication to our mission. Thank you for allowing us to continue our work. Traditionally, our Member Appreciation Days represent a partnership between JANM and other fantastic Southern California museums to offer free reciprocal admission and 20% store ...

  • Justice Bradley’s Reference to Korematsu is Insensitive and Offensive

    May 08, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA – One of the goals of the Japanese American National Museum is to preserve and share the history of people of Japanese ancestry in the United States. As the Chair of its Board of Trustees, I am usually pleased to hear public figures cite sections of that history to argue a point or draw historic parallels. After the 9/11 attacks, for instance, President George W. Bush warned against profiling Muslims ...

  • ONLINE Tea & Letter Writing: Building Connections

    May 06, 2020

    FREE Gather with us in the comfort of your own home to share tea and conversation and write letters—with plenty of prompts provided by traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM. As we continue to physically distance, we are reminded of the most vulnerable populations among us, especially our community seniors who have been safer at home, but isolated, for some time now and those ...

  • ONLINE Book Talk: From Japanese American Incarceration to COVID-19: The Fight for Justice

    May 05, 2020

    FREE While times of global crisis can bring out the best in this country, they also have a history of surfacing deeply rooted xenophobia and bigotry. At a moment where many are fearful, we are once again seeing efforts to scapegoat a group of Americans based on their identity. On May 5, the Pacific Council and Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in partnership with Skylight Books, will host a conversation...

  • VIRTUAL TALK: Contested Histories on the Road with Clement Hanami

    Apr 30, 2020

    Dive into the experience of traveling across the country with the Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection special display, from program developer and curator Clement Hanami in this live presentation and Q&A! Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects crea...

  • JANM RECEIVES TWO JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES GRANTS

    May 01, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received over $530,000 in grants from the Department of Interior, National Park Service (NPS) through the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program. The funds will support two projects - the development of an experiential exhibition that will explore the important role that religious institutions and individuals played for Japanese Amer...

  • Wellness While Safer at Home

    Apr 29, 2020

    FREE Learn from a panel of experts from the AAPI community who specialize in health and wellness, in all aspects of life! This is your chance to ask for advice on everything from nutrition to meditation to caring for family and friends. Join us for a panel discussion and Q&A with Matthew Shima, LMFT (Shima Therapy); Finola Rodriguez (Project Specialist for APIFM); Lupe Limón Corales (Youth Services Coordina...

  • JANM RECEIVES GRANT AWARD FROM CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES

    Apr 30, 2020

    Los Angeles, CA – California Humanities has recently announced the March Humanities For All Project Grant awards. The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has been awarded $20,000 for its project entitled Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds, Los Angeles and Hiroshima, 1917-1944. Humanities For All Project Grant is a competitive grant program of California Humanities which supports locally-developed proje...

  • VIRTUAL LIVE TALK: The Japanese Hospital in Los Angeles: Reflections on a Hospital for All

    Apr 25, 2020

    FREE In the midst of this current COVID-19 pandemic, we’re learning more about the 1918 Influenza pandemic and its devastation across the globe. We’re also more aware of the impacts on communities of color and the long history of unequal access to health care. Join Kristen Hayashi, PhD, Director of Collections Management & Access and Curator at JANM, for a virtual live talk and Q&A that takes a historical l...

  • JANM’S ANNUAL OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVAL SET FOR JANUARY 3, 2016

    Dec 14, 2015

    The Japanese American National Museum will hold its annual Oshogatsu Family Festival on Sunday, January 3, 2016, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The new year celebration will include free crafts, performances, and cultural activities for people of all ages to help ring in the Year of the Monkey. Highlights of the day will include demonstrations of the ancient art of candy sculpting, a scavenger hunt, a Curious George-t...