Topaz Museum

Very inspiring

This was a great museum, it teaches you about the Japanese internment camp in 1942, when Californian Japanese citizens were brought here to a camp called "Topaz". It was very emotional and made me cry...

One of the very BEST museums!!

This is an outstanding museum well worth the drive off the beaten path, and our guide was an amazing and personable historian who made our visit "come alive," enriching the experience. We would recomm...

Wonderful Detour

This museum is well worth the trip. The history was beautifully and thoughtfully presented and you can tell how passionate the descendants and the community feel about sharing these stories. The art i...

Excellent presentation of shameful and neglected American History

Our family knows about the internment from the inside, as our mothers, aunts, uncles and grandparents were interned. Several of the sites commemorate the internment; but this small museum in a very ou...

Side Trip

Great museum with very knowledgeable people. Definitely avoid the summer, though, if you want to go out to the site :)