Poston Restoration: Visions of the Future

Plans for the Poston Camp I Site: A Living Museum

• Visitors center that orients the viewer to the Poston internment history as well as the history of the Colorado River Indian Tribes and highlights how the internment impacted both cultures.


• Actual barracks as well as barracks replicated to the conditions that existed during both the internment and the subsequent Native American colonization.


• Auditorium and Class rooms restored to the period. Some of the classrooms will be used to hold workshops, teacher and student training, as well as archive materials. The auditorium will serve as a showcase for museum exhibits and space for artifacts to be displayed.


• Kabuki Theatre replicated to its original design as well as a Japanese garden and swimming pool, all of which were originally on the site and built by internees.

What we hope the Museum will accomplish:

• Raise awareness of a very important chapter in American History


• Pay tribute to those whose lives were altered indefinitely by the experience of being relocated


• Honor those who had their own freedoms limited and yet still fought for the freedom of others


• Highlight the impacts that the Interment Camps had on the Colorado River Indian Tribes and their reservation


• Bring tourism to the Poston community