BeHere / 1942

BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration will open at the Oakland Museum of California on September 18, 2026. This iteration of the project also incorporates immersive installations of historic images and augmented reality (AR) experiences, but adds new elements specific to the Bay Area.

Timed to open on the same Saturday in May that, eighty years ago, suddenly turned Little Tokyo into a ghost town, BeHere / 1942 at JANM opened on May 7, 2022. The exhibition used a variety of media forms—from hyper-enlarged photographs to cutting-edge augmented reality technology—to help us see, in a new light, this dark moment in the history of Los Angeles, and of the United States.