Japanese American Museum of Oregon

Formerly Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center

411 NW Flanders St.
Portland, OR  97209
(503) 224-1458

Museum hours:
Fridays-Sundays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
BY RESERVATION ONLY
Call 503-224-1458 for reservations

Adult $8, Senior $6, Student $5, Children 11 & under Free

MASKS REQUIRED

Current Exhibits

OREGON’S NIKKEI: AN AMERICAN STORY OF RESILIENCE
THE CALVIN & MAYO TANABE GALLERY

This is a story of discrimination, resilience, and identity. It begins in rural Oregon and the streets of Japantown where Japanese immigrants embraced American ideals. It leads to the bleak landscape of American concentration camps. The story continues with the rebuilding of communities and the ongoing fight for justice.

This exhibit explores the story of Japanese Americans in Oregon from early immigration and the establishment of farms and communities to the abrupt, unjust incarceration during World War II, and finally as citizens playing vital roles in Oregon today.

 

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Grace, Grit and Gaman:
Japanese American Women through the Generations
Extended! On display through March 20, 2022

Curated by Marsha Matthews and Linda Tamura, this new exhibition shares the rarely revealed story of the grace, grit and gaman (perseverance) displayed by Japanese American women. You’ll gain a view of multiple generations of Japanese American women and the unique challenges they have faced—in their own ways, on their own terms, and in their own times.

Join us for a virtual panel discussion, Grace, Grit and Gaman: Generations of Japanese American Women, Wednesday, June 23, 6:30-7:30pm, moderated by Dr. Linda Tamura and featuring Dorothy Sato, Julianne Parker, and Vicki Nakashima. Please call or email to register:

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Museum hours:
May 14-June 13: Friends of the Japanese American Museum of Oregon ONLY
Friday - Sunday 11 am to 3 pm, by reservation only. Call 503-224-1458 for reservations.

Starting June 18: open to the general public BY RESERVATION ONLY. Adult $8, Senior $6, Student $5, Children 11 & under Free.

Japanese American Museum of Oregon
411 NW Flanders Street
Portland, OR 97209

Phone: 503-224-1458
email
 

 


Upcoming Exhibitions

Na Omi Shintani: Dream Refuge for Children Imprisoned
On display through April - September 2022

Dream Refuge for Children Imprisoned is an installation by San Francisco artist, Na Omi Shintani, exploring the trauma of children that have been incarcerated. This sacred space Shintani has created consists of a series of cots arranged in a circle with an image of a sleeping child drawn directly on each mattress. The piece draws parallels between Japanese American children that were incarcerated in American concentration camps during WWII, American Indian boarding school children who were denied their culture and taken from their communities, and the Central American children who are imprisoned, separated from their families, and living in squalid, unsafe conditions at the US border.
 

Resilience — A Sansei Sense of Legacy
October 1 –December 22, 2022

Resilience — A Sansei Sense of Legacy is an exhibition of eight artists whose work reflects on the effect of Executive Order 9066 as it resonated from generation to generation. While several of the artists in Resilience employ traditional Japanese methods in the construction of their work — Lydia Nakashima Degarrod’s use of boro stitching on her works on paper and Judy Shintani’s use of kintsugi on the ceramic vessels which accompany her deconstructed kimonos — others use iconography relating to Japanese culture as a jumping-off point for personal explorations on the subject of the incarceration camps — Reiko Fuji’s photographs-as-kimono and Tom Nakashima’s mixed media collage on Byôbu folding screen. Each in their own way, the artists in this exhibition express moments of deeply-felt pain and reluctant acceptance–emotions which were often withheld by their elders.

Exhibition artists are Kristine Aono, Reiki Fuji, Wendy Maruyama, Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, Tom Nakashima, Roger Shimomura, Judy Shintani, and Jerry Takigawa. This exhibition is co-curated by Jerry Takigawa and Gail Enns.
 


Online Exhibits

Discover Nikkei
The Japanese American Museum of Oregon is partnering with Discover Nikkei, one of the world's largest sources for Nikkei-related databases, history and culture, to create online collections of photographs and history relating to Oregon's Japanese American history.

Nihonmachi: Portland's Japantown

Nihonmachi

Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area

Nikkei Farmers

Taken: Oregonians Arrested after Pearl Harbor

Taken: FBI

Oregon Nikkei History

Portland Assemby Center

 

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Current Exhibits

OREGON'S NIKKEI: AN AMERICAN STORY OF RESILIENCE

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Grace, Grit and Gaman: Japanese American Women through the Generations

Grace Grit and Gaman

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