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1539 Rd 19 Powell, WY 82435
Powell, WY
Business Hours
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monday
10:00am-5:00pm
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tuesday
10:00am-5:00pm
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wednesday
10:00am-5:00pm
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thrusday
10:00am-5:00pm
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friday
10:00am-5:00pm
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saturday
10:00am-5:00pm
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sunday
10:00am-5:00pm
About Heart Mountain Interpretive Center
Specialties: A world-class museum dedicated to passing on the Heart Mountain story to future generations. Through photographs, artifacts, oral histories and the interactive exhibits, guests to the Center experience life at Heart Mountain through the eyes of those Japanese and Japanese Americans who were confined here during WWII. The Center provides an overview of the wartime relocation of Japa...
Specialties: A world-class museum dedicated to passing on the Heart Mountain story to future generations. Through photographs, artifacts, oral histories and the interactive exhibits, guests to the Center experience life at Heart Mountain through the eyes of those Japanese and Japanese Americans who were confined here during WWII. The Center provides an overview of the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans, including the background history of anti-Asian prejudice in America and the factors leading to their enforced relocation and confinement. Established in 1997. The HMWF is a private non-profit run by former incarcerees, their descendants, and local Wyoming citizens.
The HMWF restored the Honor Roll, originally built in 1944 by incarcerees, bearing the names of over 800 men and women from Heart Mountain who served in the U.S. military.
In 2005, a Walking Tour was dedicated to the memory of Setsuko Saito Higuchi, one of a small but determined group of former Heart Mountain incarcerees who envisioned an educational facility that would preserve and teach the lessons embodied in the wartime experience of the people confined there during World War II.
In 2007, the site of the "Heart Mountain Relocation Center" was designated as a National Historical Landmark site.
The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center opened in 2011, with more projects, interpretation and exhibits being added regularly.
In 2015, the HMWF moved an original barrack 80 miles from Shell, WY back to the Heart Mountain National Historic Landmark site.
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