Japanese American National Resource Center
Japanese American National Resource Center
Having built a comprehensive collection of Japanese American objects, images, and documents, and exhibiting them through educational programs, films, and publications, The Japanese American National Resource Center is the first of it's kind in the United States. It is dedicated to sharing the history of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Telling the story of Japanese-Americans around the country to a national as well as a world wide audience.
The Japanese American National Resource Center's mission is to provide a service to all ages and skill levels a diverse collection of documentation of the Japanese American experience. A reference collection, as well as an artifactual collection and to the institutional archives, to better provide an interpretation and appreciation of America's ethnic and cultural diversity.
A wide ranged collection of vintage kimonos to World War II artifacts and contemporary art assembled from families, organizations, families, and individuals, are on display at the museum. Representing the history and experience of it's people.
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Hours: Closed on Mondays, and Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Tuesday through Sunday, 10:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.; Thursday 10:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.;
Admission:$6.00 Adults; $5.00 Seniors; $3.00 Students with valid I.D and children ages 6 - 17; Free Members and children under 5
Free every Thursday from 5:00p.m. til 8:00p.m.
Free the third Thursday of the month from 10:00a.m. - 8:00p.m.
In the continuing exhibit, the visitor will find a moving historical overview of Japanese American communities. Starting in the early days of the first generation Japanese Americans, the Issei pioneers, and going through World War II incarceration, to present day. You will see objects, documents, photographs, and the Museum's largest artifact, a barracks from the concentration camps at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.
