Haruka Takaku is a JOI (Japan Outreach Initiative) Coordinator for the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. She recently started her two-year appointment in August 2024, working in Cody, WY to ...

Japanese-Americans began arriving at Heart Mountain in August of 1942 and endured a harsh and hungry winter, according to the museum’s exhibits. One woman recalled dinners of rice and canned ...

Students at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center during World War II. Rep. John Winter, R-Thermopolis, at the Wyoming Legislature's 2023 general session.

Wyoming teachers tour the root cellar that is undergoing restoration near the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, located between Powell and Cody. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and UW’s ...

Founded in 1996, the Wyoming Heart Mountain Foundation raised $5 million for the center through private donations, much of it contributed by the camp’s former occupants.

Norman Mineta, left, and Alan Simpson hug at the opening of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center outside of Cody. Mineta died in 2022. Simpson said of the opening of the Mineta-Simpson Institute ...

 CODY, Wyo. — Harsh climate and crowded living conditions play as common themes in artwork painted by the occupants of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center nearly 70 years ago.

An intact root cellar at the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp near Cody on Friday, June 24, 2016. Volunteers are excavating part of another collapsed root cellar from the camp. CASEY PAGE/Gazette Staff ...

Some 14,000 people were incarcerated at Heart Mountain between 1942-45, making it the third-largest city in Wyoming at the time. In many ways, it operated like a city.