The Japanese American National Museum holds a wide variety of materials documenting the Japanese American experience from a Japanese American perspective. Built around broad historical eras and themes of Japanese American experience, the holdings are used to fulfill the museum’s mission "to promote understanding and appreciation of America's ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese…

We have a large collection of ephemera relating to the San Fernando Valley- restaurant menus, newspapers, concert flyers, photography, post cards, and more- much of which was donated directly by community members.