The Interpretive Center is open Wednesday – Saturday
HOURS: 10:00am – 5:00pm
CLOSURE:
Due to a winter storm, we will be closed on Saturday, March 25.
During the upcoming year, we may occasionally need to close the museum due to construction or winter weather. Please check our social media pages (Facebook & Twitter) for updates before planning your visit. Thank you for your understanding!
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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...

HMWF Praises Passage of Bills About the Japanese American Incarceration
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation praises Congress for passing the 2023 spending bill that includes the Norman Y. Mineta Japanese...

Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Urges Virginia not to Whitewash History
As an organization devoted to teaching the accurate history of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II, the Heart...

What’s in a Name?
by Duncan Ryūken Williams Each of the over 14,000 individuals who were incarcerated in Heart Mountain had a name. But...

Heart Mountain AR: An Augmented Reality Experience
Welcome to the Heart Mountain Augmented Reality tour! Use this free app to glimpse some moments in the lives of...

National Day of Remembrance: 80 Years of Reckoning
Eighty years ago, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that put into motion the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000...

Recreating a Taste of “Home”: The Challenge of Finding Good Food While Incarcerated
by Emily Anderson The first meals at Heart Mountain and the other incarceration camps, as recalled later by former incarcerees,...

Father Luke Yokota
by Krist Jessup In the southwest corner St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Laramie, Wyoming, there is an unassuming stained-glass window that...

Japanese American Pioneers of the Bighorn Basin
by Dakota Russell Heart Mountain will always dominate any conversation about Japanese American life in Wyoming. That’s no surprise. In...
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