Support Our Mission

The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation relies on the support of our members and donors to advance our mission and take on new projects, including the restoration of original Heart Mountain structures. Join Heart Mountain in preserving the past, so that we can share all the lessons it holds for the future.

Giving Opportunites

Hours & Admission

SUMMER
Mid-May to Early October
Open Daily 10-5 pm

WINTER
Early October to Mid-May
Open Wed-Sat 10-5 pm

Adults $14
Seniors/Students $12
Children 10-17: $10

Children Under 10: Free
Commercial Group Rate: $10
* We’re a Blue Star Museum

Contact

(307) 754-8000
info@heartmountain.org
1539 Road 19
Powell, WY 82435

Learn the History

Learn about the history of Japanese Americans in the United States by exploring the progression of Japanese immigration, to the settlement of Japanese immigrants, to the forced removal of people of Japanese ancestry after the U.S. entrance into WWII, and finally to the experiences of Japanese Americans in the confinement sites.

Explore the History

Kokoro Kara Magazine

Kokoro Kara (“From Our Heart”) is our award-winning magazine. The publication includes original feature articles on Heart Mountain history, contributions by former incarcerees and their descendants, updates on the Foundation’s work, and news related to the Japanese American incarceration. Read through digital copies of past issues along with expanded online articles.

Read through past issues

Draft Resisters at Heart Mountain

Of the ten incarceration sites for Japanese Americans, Heart Mountain was the center of resistance to the military draft in 1944 and 1945. Check out the profiles of these men, including biographies and War Relocation Authority files.

Draft Resister Profiles

Recent News

Heart Mountain press releases include announcements about upcoming events, new exhibits, general news about the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, and other important information.

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Eric Muller to Receive LaDonna Zall Compassionate Witness Award

January 9, 2025

Eric Muller speaking at the 2023 Heart Mountain Pilgrimage

Author, historian and law professor Eric Muller, who curated the permanent exhibit at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, will receive the LaDonna Zall Compassionate Witness Award during the Heart Mountain Pilgrimage on Saturday, July 27. 

The award is named after LaDonna Zall, who watched the last train carrying incarcerees leave Heart Mountain on November 10, 1945, and who was the interpretive center’s first curator. A longtime educator in Powell, Wyoming, she passed away in 2021.

Muller is the author of multiple books about Heart Mountain and the Japanese American incarceration, including Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War IIand Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America’s World War II Concentration Camps. 

The Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the University of North Carolina Law School, Muller was previously a professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law. 

Muller is a faculty member with the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE), which develops young professionals by analyzing the passivity toward tyranny displayed by German professionals during the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. He led a FASPE delegation to Heart Mountain in 2021.

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