FROM OUR VISITOR GUESTBOOK
Our museum visitors have the opportunity to leave a note about their thoughts in our guestbook. Click below to read some of our favorite comments:
Thank you for a beautiful and moving museum! The deeply personal stories, the accounts of close relations between local residents and internees, the incredibly rich collection of artifacts, and the combination of art and history is incredibly powerful. What an impressive quality of exhibition concept and execution in an out-of-the-way location, but it IS the location that helps the stories speak. As a Japanese American, I am grateful for all you’ve done here, and as a teacher I admire the way it grew out of a high school journalism project. Incredible!
I’ve visited many internment camps and this museum is by far the best. Very well done. This museum is definitely a gem in a dark time in American history.
The stories, photos and “journey” through this wonderful Topaz Museum has taught me basics of gratitude, respect and kindness despite difficult days, months, and years. That some are not less equal than others. The awareness I have will adjust my own behavior so that in the moment I can choose to be my best self. Your docents and the leadership of Jane Beckwith are each a treasure to behold. You have my profound thanks.
This is a beautifully made museum. The quality amazed me, especially in a small town in the middle of nowhere. It beautifully encompasses the story and brings me such emotion. I would definitely recommend people to come to Delta just for this place.
Very well worth the drive [from northern Utah]. A very great museum well put together. I will come back and bring friends. I’ve been to a lot of NPS sites. This is as good and in a lot of cases better.
Having visited most of the camps, I should say that this is the best museum on the internment I’ve seen. Thanks.
Thank you for the hours of work to put together such a beautifully curated museum, visually, emotionally, viscerally memorable. We brought our fifth grader because they are reading “Journey to Topaz” [in their classroom] so we all came, and we all learned. Bravo for your work and commitment.
Fabulous exhibits! Really enjoyed seeing what the insides of a barrack would have looked like and the handmade furniture fashioned with love out of meager materials. The artwork was fantastic and all the displays were educational. Thanks for preserving these mementos from a horrifying period in our history.
Remarkable what you have put together to teach, to remind, to encourage standing up to injustice. The story is, unfortunately, true. It brings me to tears.
Thank you, thank you!! We fully appreciated the wonderful tour of your beautiful museum and above all, being able to tag along with the other visitors to the camp site. This is such important work you’re doing. My family [incarcerated at Topaz] will be so pleased to hear my report and see my photos.
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FROM OUR VISITOR GUESTBOOK
Our museum visitors have the opportunity to leave a note about their thoughts in our guestbook. Click below to read some of our favorite comments:
Thank you for a beautiful and moving museum! The deeply personal stories, the accounts of close relations between local residents and internees, the incredibly rich collection of artifacts, and the combination of art and history is incredibly powerful. What an impressive quality of exhibition concept and execution in an out-of-the-way location, but it IS the location that helps the stories speak. As a Japanese American, I am grateful for all you’ve done here, and as a teacher I admire the way it grew out of a high school journalism project. Incredible!
I’ve visited many internment camps and this museum is by far the best. Very well done. This museum is definitely a gem in a dark time in American history.
The stories, photos and “journey” through this wonderful Topaz Museum has taught me basics of gratitude, respect and kindness despite difficult days, months, and years. That some are not less equal than others. The awareness I have will adjust my own behavior so that in the moment I can choose to be my best self. Your docents and the leadership of Jane Beckwith are each a treasure to behold. You have my profound thanks.
This is a beautifully made museum. The quality amazed me, especially in a small town in the middle of nowhere. It beautifully encompasses the story and brings me such emotion. I would definitely recommend people to come to Delta just for this place.
Very well worth the drive [from northern Utah]. A very great museum well put together. I will come back and bring friends. I’ve been to a lot of NPS sites. This is as good and in a lot of cases better.
Having visited most of the camps, I should say that this is the best museum on the internment I’ve seen. Thanks.
Thank you for the hours of work to put together such a beautifully curated museum, visually, emotionally, viscerally memorable. We brought our fifth grader because they are reading “Journey to Topaz” [in their classroom] so we all came, and we all learned. Bravo for your work and commitment.
Fabulous exhibits! Really enjoyed seeing what the insides of a barrack would have looked like and the handmade furniture fashioned with love out of meager materials. The artwork was fantastic and all the displays were educational. Thanks for preserving these mementos from a horrifying period in our history.
Remarkable what you have put together to teach, to remind, to encourage standing up to injustice. The story is, unfortunately, true. It brings me to tears.
Thank you, thank you!! We fully appreciated the wonderful tour of your beautiful museum and above all, being able to tag along with the other visitors to the camp site. This is such important work you’re doing. My family [incarcerated at Topaz] will be so pleased to hear my report and see my photos.