Japanese American History Museum
A project of the Oregon Nikkei Endowment

121 NW 2nd Ave
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 224-1458

Exhibit hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sunday, noon to 3 p.m.

$3 suggested donation,
free for Friends of Oregon Nikkei Endowment

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For information on administrative hours please call us at
503-224-1458.

Resources and Services

Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center 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

 

Links

Other Educational Resources:

• Densho: the Japanese American Legacy Project
   
• Discover Nikkei
   
• Go for Broke National Education Center
   
• University of Washington
   
• Japanese American Citizens League Education Page
   
• Smithsonian: A More Perfect Union
   
• Asia Society Teachers' Resources
   

Local Community:

• Old Town Chinatown
• Oregon Historical Society
• JACL - Portland Chapter
• Four Rivers Cultural Center
• Portland Taiko
• Oregon Cultural Trust
• Oregon Council for the Humanities
• Portland 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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