Touchstones for learning
The groundwork is being laid for the national campaign to raise the funds necessary tIn the future, The Center will
house a visual archive of the rare MIS object collection that
both the public and University researcher can access on-line.
Ideas are being sought for both online and onsite interactive
exhibits, teaching plans and tools, tours, programs, events,
debates, and celebrations.
As coming generations face an increasingly globalized world
in which language and culture is key to peace and security,
opportunity and prosperity, many will find valuable lessons
of the MIS Japanese American experience as touchstones of their
learning.
For an example of how the Building 640 project will reach out
to the community on internment and civil rights, please see
the NJAHS sponsored "Locked
In, Locked Out: Linking Japanese American Internment to Your
Rights Today."
Connected to the Interpretive Center's mission and
location are two other works-in-progress: an effort
by the Angel
Island Immigration Station Foundation to preserve
the stories of Immigration at this historic site,
and the Pacific
Coast Immigration Museum to interpret the unique
experience of Americans who came to the West Coast
from Asia, the Pacific Islands, Latin America and
other regions.
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