Japanese American National Museum

Japanese American National Museum

This museum is the first museum in the United States to represent/ acknowledge Japanese American culture and history. There is lots of background on the Japanese American National Museum. It opened in the year of 1992. It displays the culture of Japanese Americans. The museum contains many important objects. It has many home movies of Japanese Americans. It also has artifacts, textiles, art, photographs, and oral histories. This Museum contains One hundred and thirty years worth of Japanese American History. Its quite amazing actually. The Museum was first located where the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple. They then moved it in January 1999 to its current location.