Uprooted: An American Story is a permanent exhibit that immerses visitors in the stories and experiences of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated en masse during WWII.

This is a permanent exhibit created for the California Museum. We worked closely with experts and docents to ensure that the story was told in a compelling way. The exhibition, redesigned by our team at C&G Partners, focuses on the incarceration of over 127,000 Japanese Americans. The exhibit uses interactive oral histories, scale models, 1:1 recreations of the camps, and poignant personal memorabilia to ground the story in reality. The cloud of 1,000 tsuru — cranes — floats over the exhibition, expressing a wish that this kind of atrocity will never happen again.

Client: The California Museum
Firm: C&G Partners
Photography: C&G Partners, The California Museum