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JANM Condemns Plans to Convert Warehouses into Large-Scale Immigrant Detention Centers

2026年03月13日

Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) denounces plans of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to purchase warehouses across the country and convert them into large-scale immigrant detention centers that could hold thousands of people ...

JANM Condemns Antisemitism and Islamophobia

2026年03月13日

Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) condemns the recent antisemitic attack on the Michigan synagogue and the Islamophobic speech from Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville. We cannot allow the normalization of antisemitism, Islamophobia, or acts of ...

2026 Getty Marrow Collections and Curatorial Intern

Catalog, digitize, rehouse, and research artwork from the permanent collection.

2026 Getty Marrow Audience Engagement Intern

Develop innovative tools and resources to deepen audience connection with JANM’s new permanent exhibition.

2026 Getty Marrow Media Arts Intern

Assist in the creation of media components for upcoming films, exhibitions, educational/public programs, and social media.

JANM to Preview Interactive StoryFiles of George Takei and Others March 21

2026年03月09日

Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will preview four new interactive StoryFiles—a groundbreaking storytelling technology—of actor, author, and activist George Takei and three other Japanese Americans who were incarcerated in America’s concentr...

How Do Museums Resist Censorship?

2026年02月23日

Zócalo, JANM, and MOCA present a discussion at the top of LA’s art week: American Alliance of Museums Board Chair and Michigan State University Museum Director Devon Akmon, JANM President and CEO Ann Burroughs, and The Brick Director and MONUMENTS Co-Curator Hamza Walker will discuss how museums resist the erasure and revision of our history and culture, and what it means for how we document our shared past, present,...

2026 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance

2026年02月21日

The annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Executive Order 9066 authorized the US military to remove persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast and set into motion their incarceration in concentration camps during World War II.This year’s theme, “The Power of Action: Silence Today, Injustice Tomorrow,” high...

Defining Courage at Aratani Theatre in Los Angeles

2026年02月19日

Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier—Japanese Americans who served in the segregated units of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Produced and narrated by ABC7-Los Angeles news anchor and filmmaker David Ono, Defining Courage honors the greatest fighting units in American military history. Featuri...

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement in Reno, NV

2026年02月19日

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement will have a special screening at the Prim Theater in Reno, Nevada on Thursday, February 19, 2026.Courtesy of JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal.In recognition of the 84th anniversary of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, join Nevada Humanities and the Reno chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League for a special screening of Tadashi Nakam...