The Interpretive Center is open Wednesday – Saturday
HOURS: 10:00am – 5:00pm
During the upcoming months, we may occasionally need to close the museum due to construction or inclement weather. Please check our social media pages (Facebook & Twitter) for updates before planning your visit. Thank you for your understanding!
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Sam Mihara Receives Human Rights Award
Sam Mihara, who was incarcerated at Heart Mountain as a child, received the Salem Award for Human Rights and Justice...
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Opposes Attempt to End NEH Funding
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation opposes a House amendment that would remove funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities. ...
Heart Mountain Board Chair Higuchi Honored as Pioneering Japanese American Lawyer
Shirley Ann Higuchi, the Chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, will be honored as a leader in the Japanese...
Heart Mountain Website of Translated Literary Journal Wins Award
A series of literary articles and poetry published by first-generation Japanese immigrants incarcerated at Heart Mountain during World War II...
New Lifetime Achievement Medal Named After Heart Mountain Vice Chair Douglas W. Nelson
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation recognized the contributions made by its longtime Vice Chair Douglas Nelson during its annual pilgrimage...
Heart Mountain Pilgrimage Will Feature New Awards, Highlight Key Speakers
Three Japanese Americans who help build the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will receive the organization’s first lifetime achievement awards during...
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Regrets Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision
For too long, Asian Americans have been used as a wedge between the nation’s White majority and other peoples of...
Heart Mountain Exhibit Celebrates Neighborhood Where Japanese and Black Americans Found Solidarity
When Executive Order 9066 forced Japanese Americans living in the Los Angeles neighborhood known as J-Flats from their homes and...
Heart Mountain Workshops Feature Public Event on Montana Sedition Act Abuses
For the first time, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will open to the public a session of its workshops for...
National Park Service Awards Major Grant for Mineta-Simpson Institute Exhibit
The Mineta-Simpson Institute at Heart Mountain has taken another step closer to completion with the awarding of a $149,646 grant...
Heart Mountain Publishes Japanese-Language Edition of Setsuko’s Secret
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation has published a Japanese-language edition of Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese...
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Releases Translations of Rare Camp Writings
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is releasing a new digital exhibit featuring English translations of poems, essays and short stories...
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Appoints Aura Sunada Newlin as Executive Director
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Aura Sunada Newlin as its permanent executive director,...
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Presents Night of Taiko and Shakuhachi
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is proud to present a performance by the San Jose Taiko drumming ensemble and shakuhachi...
HMWF Decries Attacks on the Loyalty of Asian American Member of Congress
Eighty-one years ago, 120,000 people of Japanese descent were incarcerated without evidence, because opportunistic politicians used their ethnicity to question...
Heart Mountain Opens New Exhibit on Ties Between Holocaust and Japanese American Soldiers
On Saturday, February 18, the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center will open its new exhibit, Parallel Barbed Wire: From Heart Mountain...
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