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  • JANM Denounces Rise in Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation

    Jul 07, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) denounces the recent rise in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. According to the Human Rights Campaign, over 520 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced in state legislatures and seventy anti-LGBTQ+ laws have been enacted in 2023. Most recently, the US Supreme Court ruled that conservative Christian businesses have the right to refuse services for same-sex marriages...

  • Who Is My Neighbor? Allyship Then and Now

    Jan 28, 2023

    FREE Who advocated for Japanese Americans during World War II and what motivated them? What made them act when most didn’t? What are lessons we can learn from the past to become advocates and allies for those who are facing injustice now? In conjunction with the closing of the exhibition Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American WWII Incarceration, scholars and activists will join together to discuss all...

  • Museum Store Sunday 2022

    Nov 27, 2022

    On November 27, 2022, join us for the 6th Annual Museum Store Sunday! Museums foster appreciation and knowledge of art, nature, culture, science, and history. When you purchase a gift from the museum store, you help to sustain the museum’s service to their community and the public. Products found in museum stores are curated just like the works displayed in their respective institutions, with many items often develop...

  • Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration Launch

    Sep 25, 2022

    PLEASE NOTE: This event is NOT sold out. To accommodate all visitors, this event requires timed tickets. Please select your time slot for your visit by clicking “other times” and selecting desired time. You may also email Public Programs for your reservation at publicprograms@janm.org FREE Museum admission must be purchased separately. Please check-in with Visitor Services at the front desk before t...

  • Nikkei Uncovered III: a poetry reading

    Sep 15, 2022

    FREE Join us for our third annual virtual poetry reading with a powerful lineup of poets previously featured in Discover Nikkei’s Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column, hosted by traci kato-kiriyama (author of Navigating With(out) Instruments). This year, the poets were chosen to reflect on the theme of gathering. What does it mean to gather in a time of physical and social separation? How can poetry bring us...

  • Kelli-Ann Nakayama Named Chief Development Officer at the Japanese American National Museum

    Sep 01, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has appointed Kelli-Ann Nakayama as the Museum’s new chief development officer. Nakayama has more than twenty years of professional nonprofit fundraising experience, with a specialty in capital campaigns and major/principal gifts. She provides leadership to the Museum's national philanthropic funding strategies, including membership, individual and ins...

  • Exhibition Family Day - "Japan After Perry: Views of Yokohama and Meiji Japan" and "Lasting Beauty: Miss Jamison and the Student Muralists"

    Mar 05, 2005

    Learn how to create woodblock prints through demonstrations and an activity where participants will design and create their own simple prints using a variety of materials. Also, discover what it takes to develop a mural by lending a hand to paint our very own portable community mural.

  • Author Discussion—"Footprints in My Rearview Mirror: An Autobiography and Christian Testimony of George Oiye" by George Oiye

    Oct 19, 2003

    Join author George Oiye as he reads selected passages from his autobiographical work, Footsteps in My Rearview Mirror. Oiye recounts key moments of his life and has included photos from an album documenting his service with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion during World War II (currently on display in Object Lessons and featured on the National Museum's website). Oiye also describes how these pivotal moments shap...

  • Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II - Store

    JANM members receive a 10% discount! Join or renew now

  • Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II - Press

    For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Press Photo Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)