Thanks to a generous private donation, matched by funding from Canadian Heritage Cultural Spaces fund, the Nikkei National Museum is embarking on a $1M main floor expansion from fall of […]

We have an exciting year ahead at the Nikkei National Museum with main floor expansion due to begin this fall.  In preparation for that, we needed to move staff from […]

Writing Wrongs: Japanese-Canadian Protest Letters from the 1940s

The Nikkei National Museum is developing a multimedia online exhibit for the Virtual Museum of Canada inspired by over 300 protest letters written by Japanese Canadians opposing the forced sale of their property in the 1940s. “Writing Wrongs” will launch in 2019 and use multimedia technology, interviews, archival documents and photographs, and art to give context to these letters, from the hopes and dreams of Japanese immigrants to Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the relevance of this story to contemporary issues today. We are currently seeking to make connections with descendants of the authors of these letters.