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  • Manzanar Baseball Project Comes to JANM on August 24, 2024

    2024年08月05日

    PSAWHAT: During World War II, baseball was a way for Japanese Americans in America’s concentration camps to find a sense of normalcy, uplift their spirits, and claim a connection to American culture. Today, the Manzanar Baseball Project is rebuilding and bringing to life the baseball diamond at Manzanar National Historic Site. WHEN: Saturday, August 24, 2024 from 11 a.m.–1 p.m.DETAILS: This special event will...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Welcomes the Passage of two Japanese American History Bills in the Omnibus Appropriations Package

    2022年12月23日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum celebrates today’s passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 is an omnibus bill that will provide annual funding for the federal government and the passage of a variety of bills including the Norman Y. Mineta Japanese American C...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Denounces Racist Remarks from the Chancellor of Purdue University Northwest

    2022年12月22日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is gravely concerned by the offensive tropes designed to mock Asian languages that Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon uttered during a commencement ceremony on December 10, 2022. The Faculty Senate Executive Committee released a letter demanding Keon’s resignation and has yet to hear from him. “As the public face and leader of the unive...

  • JANM Free Family Days: Handy Crafts

    2016年07月09日

    FREE ALL DAY Inspired by Above the Fold, this Family Day will explore origami and other fun handmade crafts. ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: Learn to fold a paper frog at Ruthie’s Origami Corner—a JANM favorite! Visit our various origami stations to work on projects at the skill level of your choice. There will be beginning, intermediate, and advanced stations available. We will even have a pop culture...

  • Making Waves

    2016年02月28日 - 2016年06月26日

    In the early 1900s, groups of Japanese Americans formed photography clubs along the Pacific coast from Los Angeles to Seattle. Their photographs were exhibited and published internationally to considerable acclaim, and admired by other photographers including Edward Weston and László Moholy-Nagy. Through artfully arranged images, the photographers represented the Japanese cultural heritage that they knew and loved; a...

  • GIANT ROBOT BIENNALE RETURNS TO JANM FOR FOURTH INSTALLMENT

    2015年08月31日

    The Japanese American National Museum will open Giant Robot Biennale 4, its fourth exhibition in collaboration with Giant Robot founder, Eric Nakamura, on October 11, 2015. This edition of the popular series, first presented in 2007, will examine the evolution of the Giant Robot aesthetic from its humble origins in drawing to its many celebrated manifestations in painting, installation, muralism, and photography. T...

  • Before They Were Heroes

    2015年07月14日 - 2015年09月06日

    Before They Were Heroes: Sus Ito’s World War II Images is the inaugural exhibition in Sharing Our Stories, a new series of exhibitions drawn from JANM’s extensive permanent collection. A celebration of the donation by Susumu “Sus” Ito of his vast archive of photographs and negatives taken while on duty during World War II, Before They Were Heroes gives the public a rare and breathtaking look at the daily lives of the...

  • Colors of Confinement

    2014年05月03日 - 2014年08月31日

    SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT Colors of Confinement presents 18 rare Kodachrome photographs taken by Bill Manbo during his incarceration at the Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming in 1943 and 1944. It shatters preconceptions about this episode of injustice by showing it to us in vivid and beautiful color. Manbo was ahead of his time—while others were shooting in black-and-white, he shot in Kodachrome, a technolog...

  • NATIONAL MUSEUM SETS 2011 OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVAL ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 2

    2010年12月24日

    To open 2011, the Japanese American National Museum will once again hold its free annual Oshogatsu (New Year) Family Festival on Sunday, January 2, 2011, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at its facility in Little Tokyo, featuring taiko performances, food demonstrations and tastings, and arts and crafts related to the arrival of a new year. At the MOCA Geffen facility (next door to the National Museum), a special Sunday Studio...

  • ‘CROSSINGS’ EXHIBITION FEATURES ARTISTS' TAKE ON WWII CONCENTRATION CAMPS

    2009年03月31日

    Crossings: 10 Views of America’s Concentration Camps, a new exhibition providing an artist’s perspective into the mass incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II by the U.S. government, looks at artwork from the past and present in an attempt to provide greater insight into a dark episode of American history. The exhibition opens April 2 at the National Museum. By comparing works from the...