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SoCal Museums Free-for-All 2024

Mar 23, 2024

SoCal Museums announces the Museums Free-for-All on Saturday, March 23, 2024. Over thirty museums—presenting art, cultural heritage, film, natural history, and science—will open their doors and offer free general admission. The Free-for-All also serves as a reminder that free visitor days are available year-round at museums across Southern California. A calendar of free days can be found at socalmuseums.org/free....

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...

TRANSCENDIENTS: Heroes at Borders A Contemporary Art Exhibit by Taiji Terasaki

Jan 21, 2020

Los Angeles, CA–Celebrated multi-media artist Taiji Terasaki is hard at work on his next exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in remembrance of the 78th anniversary of Japanese American concentration camps in World War II. On February 19,1942 President Roosevelt signed an executive order that authorized the unconstitutional incarceration of American citizens and residents. TRANSCENDIENTS: Heroe...

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