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Heart Mountain press releases provide updates on upcoming events, new exhibits, and news from the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and Interpretive Center; for high-resolution archival and contemporary images, visit the Media Kit or contact info@heartmountain.org, and for news from the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC), click here—recent and past press releases are available below.
December 7, 2021
December 8, 2021 Heart Mountain Interpretive Center invites educators to apply for a professional development workshop focused on the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, to be held on February 19, 2022. The workshop will be hosted at the interpretive center and is free to attend, but registration is required and space is limited. February […]
November 24, 2021
November 15, 2021 Heart Mountain Interpretive Center will host a free admission day on Saturday, November 27 and a holiday open house on Saturday, December 11. Both events are free and open to the public. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 27, Heart Mountain Interpretive Center will waive regular admission fees, so that local residents […]
November 15, 2021
Beginning Monday, November 15, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will be accepting applications from educators to participate in two weeklong workshops sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshops, entitled “Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and the Japanese American Incarceration,” will take place June 19-24 and July 24-29 at Heart Mountain Interpretive Center and other […]
August 17, 2021
August 17, 2021 The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation has received a grant from the National Endowment of Humanities to conduct workshops for 72 teachers from around the country for the second consecutive year. The workshops will take place in the summer of 2022 and will focus on the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans in Wyoming […]
April 14, 2021
April 13, 2021 The Shepard Symposium on Social Justice at the University of Wyoming has announced that Aura Sunada-Matsumura Newlin, secretary of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation’s board of directors, will receive their Community Member Award for 2021. The award recognizes dedication to social justice causes in the state of Wyoming. The ceremony will take […]
November 16, 2020
Admission to Heart Mountain Interpretive Center will be free on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 28. However, in recognition of ongoing coronavirus safety concerns, guests must schedule their visit in advance. Offering free admission after Thanksgiving is a longstanding tradition, said Heart Mountain Executive Director Dakota Russell. “We always look forward to our local supporters […]
October 19, 2020
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and the Park County Historic Preservation Commission will host an online workshop on Sunday, November 1, to teach volunteers how to identify and document buildings from the World War II confinement site around Park County. The event will kick off a long term project to catalog all the surviving camp […]
September 20, 2020
In conjunction with the publication of Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation chair Shirley Ann Higuchi’s new book, Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will host a virtual book talk on Saturday, September 26 at 6 p.m. Higuchi’s mother, Setsuko, was one of over 14,000 Japanese Americans […]
August 13, 2020
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of the CARES Act legislation passed to help relieve the financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic. The $92,852 grant will help the Foundation to retain staff at Heart Mountain Interpretive Center and to expand its online presence […]
July 29, 2020
Heart Mountain Interpretive Center will take part in a new national event, “America’s Summer Roadtrip,” on Saturday, August 1. The online broadcast, created and hosted by The Pursuit of History, promises to take viewers “across the country and through our nation’s history” with 12 live tours of historic sites across the nation. The event on […]
June 16, 2020
Heart Mountain Interpretive Center will fully reopen for visitors beginning Saturday, June 20. The interpretive center will be open daily, but will be operating on shortened hours, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The reduced hours reflect the center’s commitment to protecting visitors by implementing additional cleaning measures. Heart Mountain Interpretive Center closed to the […]
May 15, 2020
Heart Mountain Interpretive Center will reopen to visitation by appointment beginning Saturday, May 16. Visitors may now schedule an appointment by emailing us at info@heartmountain.org or by calling the museum at (307) 754-8000. Heart Mountain Interpretive Center has been closed since March due to concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. In reopening, the […]
