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  • Members Only Curator Tour: “Contested Histories”

    Nov 02, 2024

    JANM Members are invited to join exhibition curator Clement Hanami, JANM’s Vice President of Exhibitions and Art Director, for a walkthrough of JANM’s exhibition, Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection. The exhibition consists of the Eaton Collection, some 400 objects made by Japanese American incarcerees that were saved from the auction block by the incredible efforts of community organiz...

  • JANM Condemns Proposal to Invoke Alien Enemies Act to Enforce Mass Deportations

    Oct 16, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) condemns the former President’s proposal to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to enforce mass deportations of migrants without due process. That law permits deporting people from countries with which the US is at war and that have invaded the US. In 1941, President Roosevelt used it to arrest and detain citizens of Japan, Germany, and Italy without due...

  • 2022 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance

    Feb 19, 2022

    The annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing on February 19, 1942 of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Executive Order 9066 authorized the military to remove and incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry into American concentration camps during World War II. Focusing on the theme of “Power of Communities: Building Strength Through Collective Action,” this year’s vi...

  • Members Only Virtual Conversation: A Life in Pieces

    Aug 14, 2021

    All JANM Members are invited to an exclusive Members Only virtual conversation with JANM’s VP of Exhibitions and Art Director Clement Hanami, writer/filmmaker Sharon Yamato, actor Kurt Kanazawa, and Emblematic's founder and CEO Nonny de la Peña. They will discuss the virtual reality video created for A Life in Pieces: The Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami. This program is FREE for all members, but RSVPs are requ...

  • Museum Store Sunday

    Nov 29, 2020

    FREE GIFT WITH PURCHASE OF $20 OR MORE! We are celebrating the fourth annual Museum Store Sunday on November 29 by offering a special gift with purchases over $20! Get a FREE mixed set of Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes holiday cards. Enjoy six each of his two signature illustrations (a total of 12 cards) from the Caldecott Award-winning artist’s very special holiday book. On November 29, 2020, when you purch...

  • SANTA ANITA ASSEMBLY CENTER REUNION SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 15 AT JANM

    Mar 02, 2017

    The Santa Anita Assembly Center Committee, in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum, will present a reunion and public remembrance of the opening of the Assembly Center 75 years ago, beginning a dark chapter in United States history when the government denied the civil rights of Japanese Americans. On Saturday, April 15, 2017, surviving incarcerees, their families, and their descendants’ families w...

  • JANM TO HOST “COMMON GROUND CONVERSATIONS” BEGINNING IN JANUARY

    Dec 14, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will host a four-week series of "Common Ground Conversations" in the galleries of its Common Ground: The Heart of Community exhibition beginning January 12, 2017. Sessions will take place on consecutive Thursday evenings from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and each will focus on a different topic. Staff members of the museum’s education department will lead each session and facilitate the...

  • JANM’S ANNUAL OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVAL SET FOR JANUARY 8, 2017

    Dec 01, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will hold its annual Oshogatsu Family Festival on Sunday, January 8, 2017, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The New Year celebration will include free crafts, performances, and cultural activities for people of all ages to help ring in the Year of the Rooster. Highlights of the day will include demonstrations of the ancient art of candy sculpting, sample bowls of lucky zaru soba fo...

  • JANM ANNOUNCES HONOREES AND THEME FOR 2017 ANNUAL GALA DINNER

    Nov 15, 2016

    The Japanese American National Museum will hold its annual Gala Dinner and Silent Auction on May 6, 2017, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles. The evening’s theme will be Reconnecting with the Past, Forging Our Future and the honorees will be Irene Hirano Inouye, the museum’s founding Executive Director; Bruce T. Kaji, a founding Director and the founding President of the museum; and Tom Ikeda, ...

  • Ansel Adams at Manzanar—Article

    A Glimpse of the Elusive Truth Ansel Adams at Manzanar By Lisa Itagaki I believe that the arid splendor of the desert, ringed with towering mountains, has strengthened the spirit of the people of Manzanar…From the harsh soil they have extracted fine crops; they have made gardens glow in the firebreaks and between the barracks. Out of the jostling, dusty confusion of the first bleak days in raw barracks they h...