and actively engage in its welfare.

bringing arts and craft activities as well as innovative experiences that use technology to bring the Japanese American experience to life.The exhibition will re-imagine how it tells the stories of Japanese Americans by drawing on todays technological advances and national discussion around race and democracy; include familiar elements from the current core exhibition to carry the World War II incarceration stories forward; and highlight new stories that explore the choices the community made in face of adversity as they fought towards an ever-shifting vision of the future.

Details on these programs and other new programs to be announced will be available at janm.The exhibition will come to JANM in 2026–2027 with an array of public programs created in partnership with the Japanese American Cultural Community Center.In the Future We Call Now is supported by funding provided by the State of California.

and the forthcoming film Third Act.Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program.

Visitors will also be able to follow along online and on social media as JANMs collections and curatorial team prepare artifacts and the stories they reveal for the new core exhibition.

the museum will travel beyond its walls with robust in-person and virtual offerings and into communities near and far to share the important lessons of history and the Japanese American experience.and many remember how the strips quickly became completely black as they became overloaded with flies.

Because actual buildings still exist at the site (unlike many of the other 16 sites).Driving into the gigantic parking lot with Cirque de Soleil trucks gathered in one tiny corner.

Given the deplorable conditions.she had an immediate re-lived sensory experience.