JANM on the GO
From special exhibitions and public programs to family festivals, education programs, and more, find out how JANM on the Go is coming to a community near you!
JANM On The Go
JANM On The Go
In 2025, the Japanese American National Museum embarks on a renovation of its Pavilion and an ambitious reimagining of its core exhibition. Once the updates and renovations begin, JANM will reach beyond the Museum’s walls with a lively schedule of special exhibitions, public programs, family festivals, education programs, and more on the JANM campus, throughout Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Southern California, and beyond!
JANM on the Go will kick off on January 5, 2025, with our annual Oshogatsu Family Festival and the final day to see JANM’s original core exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of a Community before the Pavilion closes for renovation. From January 2025 through 2026, watch for JANM on the Go programs in locations near you:
- On JANM’s Campus—Oshogatsu Family Festival, regular public programs, the Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, and more
- Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, and other California Locations—Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community exhibition in Pasadena, family festivals, community pop-ups, and more
- Virtual—Virtual field trips for students grades 1–12, the new virtual corporate program History Unpacked, new community tools and streaming programs from Discover Nikkei, online exhibitions, and more
- Across the United States—The Ireichō: Sacred Book of Names traveling in conjunction with pilgrimages to a number of former War Relocation Authority, Department of Justice, and Wartime Civil Control Administration incarceration sites, in partnership with The Irei Project and USC’s Duncan Ryuken Williams, the groundbreaking exhibition Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and Monterey, Defining Courage performances in multiple cities, screenings of Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement and Third Act at universities and film festivals, and more
- Japan—The exhibition Japanese American History and Art from JANM’s Collection in Nagoya and Yokohama; BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration in Tokyo, and sister museum programs in Wakayama.