Resources and Services

The Legacy Center and its programs provide tangible reminders of the richness and vitality that ethnic minorities can bring to societies that hold sacred the rights of its citizens and regard as a blessing the diversity of its people.

ONLC activities and resources are designed to collect and preserve and share the Nikkei history with a broad range of audiences.

• Visiting exhibits focusing on art, culture, history, civil rights, sports and other relevant topics.
  
  
• Speakers for schools, services clubs, and community organizations.
  
  
• Museum in a Suitcase, a portable exhibit for classroom presentations by our speakers.
  
  
• Guided tours of the exhibits or the Japanese American Historical plaza.
  
  
• Videotaped oral histories.
  
  
• Research library.
  
  
• Historic documents and artifacts.
  
  
• Books and scholarly publications.

If you would like to schedule a group tour to the Legacy Center, or to arrange for a speaker to visit your school or organization, please call or e-mail:

Phone: 503-224-1458

 

Museum in a Suitcase
Developed by the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, with assistance from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center is proud to announce the development of a new teaching aid for use in classroom presentations called Museum in a Suitcase. Our speakers will share the Japanese-American experience in Oregon with your students by bringing exhibits (visual images and artifacts) in a suitcase to your classroom.

The exhibits cover the following topics and are available to your classroom:

• Early Japanese Immigration to Oregon and the Seeds of Racial Intolerance
• Creating Communities – Life in Nihonmachi (Portland’s Japantown) and Racial Intolerance
• Internment Story – World War II, Executive Order 9066, Evacuation Process, Portland Assembly Center, Transfer to Concentration Camps, Life in Camp, U.S. Military, End of the War, Resettlement Process, and Redress

To schedule a speaker and make arrangements on topics that you would like presented to your classroom, contact the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center:

Phone: 503-224-1458

 

Online Exhibits

The Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center 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 Nikkei.

Nihonmachi: Portland's Japantown

Nikkei Farmers of the Hood River Area

Oregon Nikkei History
 

Other Educational Resources

• Densho: the Japanese American Legacy Project
• Discover Nikkei
• Go for Broke National Education Center
• University of Washington
   

Links

Local Community:

• Old Town Chinatown
• Oregon Historical Society
• JACL - Portland Chapter
• Portland Taiko
• Oregon Cultural Trust
• Oregon Council for the Humanities
• The Japanese Garden
• Japan-America Society of Oregon
• The International School
• Hidden Portland
• Oregon Museums Association
• Oregon 150: Oregon Sesquicentennial
• Oregon Reads 2009

National:

• Discover Nikkei
• Go for Broke
• Densho
• Japanese American National Museum
• Japanese American Citizens League
• Pacific Citizen
• National Japanese American Historical Society
• Japanese American National Library
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• The Wing Luke Asian Museum

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