Only What Could Be Carried
Gallery Exhibit
February 18- March 11

Here at the Four Rivers Cultural Center, we seek to connect our community–and all the people who make up our region to the unique stories that make up their cultural heritage. That’s why from February 18th through March 11th we’re inviting you to an interactive exhibit that will connect you to the past: Only What Could be Carried. For a limited time, visitors can learn more about Minidoka, in this educational pop-up exhibit housed right here in the Harano Gallery! 

Experience a teenager’s memories of her experiences in WWII’s War Relocation Authority’s Minidoka concentration camp. Explore a trunk full of artifacts, photographs, and documents from the Japanese American Museum collection through a fully digital interactive experience, and view artifacts from FRCC’s own collections depicting life in the internment camps. 

Through the touch-screen exhibit, audiences will learn about the eyes of a teenage girl pulled from her home in the Pacific Northwest and brought to an isolated concentration camp in southern Idaho. In this exhibit, visitors will explore a small glimpse of the experience by interacting with artifacts, letters, and images all framed through the lens of personal diary entries. Our main character and her immediate family are fictional in name, but the events, friends, teachers, emotions, and other memories of Minidoka are very real. ONLY WHAT COULD BE CARRIED… what would you take? 

In this interactive exhibit, visitors will have the chance to decide what should be left behind as they move through the activities. In the end, they can only bring what will fit in the suitcase provided.

Opening Night and More!
Join us for the gallery opening of this special exhibit on February 18th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. where light refreshments will be provided, and enjoy a documentary film about the Minidoka experience.