Catch This One Fascinating Exhibit Before it’s Gone

If you can’t wait to see terrific exhibits before the start of fall, the Chandler Museum is hosting “Un-American: Japanese Internment in Our Backyard” until September 2.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were confined to internment camps. Of those, 16,655 women, men and children were relocated to Gila River Internment Camp, only a few miles away from Chandler, simply because they looked like the enemy. Experience the photos and stories of the people who were forced to leave behind almost everything they owned to live in stark conditions in the middle of the desert.  “Un-American” has attracted people from all over the Valley and Arizona, including former internees.
The exhibit, which opened in February, features an installation of 16,655 paper origami cranes (one representing each person incarcerated at the camp) created by people from across the Valley and beyond and a wall with names of each family moved to Gila River Internment Camp with markers indicating former internees or family members who have visited the exhibit.
Info: chandlermuseum.org