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Amache Museum

Address: 109 E Goff Ave, Granada, CO 81041, USA

Main Phone: (719) 734-5411

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Latitude: 38.0625256

Longitude: -102.3091945

Did you know that Amache Museum rates 4.6/5 based on 31 total ratings?

Reviews for Amache Museum
Kathy Kite

Kathy Kite

5/5

6 months ago

Very informative. The student that spoke with us was amazing.

Jennie Heidbreder

Jennie Heidbreder

5/5

7 months ago

Dark time in our American history. Very nicely displayed at this museum

Kristi Anderson

Kristi Anderson

5/5

8 months ago

We went in and we’re kindly greeted by a high schooler who walked us around the museum explaining everything.

Silkscreen Shop At Amache

Amache was the only camp with a successful silkscreen shop. At the time, silkscreening was one of the best ways to crisply print in color, something required by the U.S. Navy for their training materials. Established in June of 1943, the Amache silkscreen shop produced over 250,000 color posters under a contract with the navy. The staff of forty-five also created many prints for use in camp, including calendars, programs for camp events, even souvenirs for the yearly carnival. The Amache silkscreen shop produced a colorful and visually distinctive record of life at the camp. Resource: Amache Silkscreen Shopweb page.

Activities

Inmates developed a well organized and active recreation program with sports leagues in baseball and basketball for both men and women. An extensive adult education program was developed for the older men and women with classes in sewing, crocheting, weaving, knitting, dressmaking, paper flower arranging, art, woodcarving, painting and poetry.

Special morale building events were organized to cope with the daily boredom of confined living. Such events included arts and craft festivals, agricultural fairs, 4th of July parades, carnivals, movies, talent shows, musical concerts, sports contests, dances for the young people and an annual Obon festival.

While agriculture employed the majority of labor in the camps, adults worked in other capacities as well. Sixty served in the Amache police department and three crews of firefighters supported daily operations. Inmates worked as teachers (alongside Caucasians), medical personnel in the hospital, dental staff, mess hall cooks, postal employees, librarians, and in the co-op. Amache had its own newspaper, Granada Pioneer, with its own comic strip featuring Lil’ Neebo create by Chris Ishii.

The Amache Silkscreen Shop employed 45 people and produced war training material for the US Navy as well as internal Amache calendars, programs, and personal projects. When not working, the recreation barracks were utilized by the Boy and Girl Scouts, the YMCA, nursery schools, movies and theater, concerts and clubs, sports programs, and classes in Japanese calligraphy and flower arranging. They also served as churches for Buddhists, Christians, and other faiths.

Children went to school and participated in sports programs. Adults did their best to hide the hardships from the children and made recreational apparatus for the children to play on. Playing with marbles was also popular with the children.

In 1944 and 1945 there were funeral services at the cemetery for the Amache men who were killed in action fighting the Nazi forces in Italy and France. Resource: Amache Org Dailey Activities and Events web page.