Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles

The Japanese American National Museum is situated in Los Angeles and is dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans. It was established in 1992 and can be found in the Little Tokyo neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles. The museum is affiliated with the Smithsonian Affiliations program.

This museum covers a span of over 130 years of Japanese American history, tracing back to the first generation of Japanese immigrants known as Issei. Within its collection, there are more than 100,000 feet (equivalent to 30,000 meters) of 16 millimeters and 8 millimeters home movies created by and featuring Japanese Americans from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Additionally, it houses a diverse array of artifacts, textiles, artworks, photographs, and oral histories that relate to Japanese Americans. Notably, the Japanese American National Museum of Los Angeles collaborates with the Academy Film Archive to safeguard and provide access to home movies that document the Japanese American experience. Since its establishment in 1992, the JANM Collection at the Academy Film Archive has grown to encompass over 250 home movies.

The museum has three ongoing exhibitions: "Interactive StoryFile of Lawson Iichiro Sakai" where he answers a thousand questions about himself, "Common Ground: The Heart of Community" covering 130 years of Japanese American history, and "Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds," showcasing photos of the Japanese American community in Los Angeles and pre-atomic Hiroshima.