Current Exhibits 

Where Songs Surface
TAIKEN: Generations of Resilience
Women of Change: Celebrating Japanese Canadian Leaders

Upcoming Exhibits 

Superlative Artistry of Japan


Online Exhibits

Washi 和紙
「Forgiveness(赦し)」
Understanding Forgiveness
Women of Change: Celebrating Japanese Canadian Leaders
Writing Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Protest Letters of the 1940s
Witness to Loss
Warrior Spirit 1916
Hastings Park 1942
Tashme
Nikkei Stories
The Open Doors Project
Asahi: Canadian Baseball Legends
Our Mothers’ Patterns

Offsite Exhibits

Hastings Park Commemorative Project

Located at the Pacific National Exhibition, 2901 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC

In early 1942, over 8,000 Japanese Canadians were detained in Hastings Park before being sent to internment sites in the BC interior or to work camps across the country. A permanent outdoor exhibit and related website preserve the stories and images of this important history.

Interpretive panels have been attached to the exterior or mounted nearby each of the four surviving significant buildings at Hastings Park: the Livestock Building, the Forum, Rollerland, and the Garden Auditorium. Each of these buildings played a role in the 1942 detention of Japanese Canadians at Hastings Park, and they are considered “heritage resources within Hastings Park”.

Walking tours are available through the Nikkei National Museum.

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www.hastingspark1942.ca

A Century of Community Spirit

Located at the Vancouver Japanese Language School at 487 Alexander Street, Vancouver, BC

Discover the important role played by the Vancouver Japanese Language School in the early days of Vancouver. First opened in 1906, the school was an important educational and cultural centre for the Powell Street community.

Powell Street was the pre-war business centre of the Japanese community in Vancouver. The street was vibrant, busy and filled with Japanese people – in the busy open vegetable markets, the regular baseball games played by the Asahi ball team in Oppenheimer Park, the taxi company, the Japanese and English language newspapers, cafés, boarding houses, traditional bath houses, drug stores, department stores, and special Japanese food businesses, making tofu or manju. We invite you to discover the many monogatari (tales) of Powell Street.

Supported by Vancouver125, BC Arts Council, Vancouver Foundation, National Association of Japanese Canadians.