The Japanese American Internment Museum occupies the historic train depot at 100 South Railroad Street in McGehee, in Desha County. It was dedicated on April 16, 2013, as the Jerome-Rohwer Interpretive and Visitor Center. Its featured exhibit, Against Their Will: The Japanese American Experience in World War II Arkansas, was made through the public history program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and is on loan from the Delta Cultural Center in Helena.
The museum covers both camps in Arkansas. Rohwer and Jerome held some 16,000 Japanese Americans forced from the West Coast, the largest influx of any ethnic group in the state's history. Jerome, in Drew and Chicot counties, operated from October 6, 1942, to June 30, 1944, the fewest days of any of the ten camps, and it held 8,497 people at its peak. In February 1943, several hundred young Nisei marched peacefully to the camp director's building to petition against the Army's loyalty and draft program. After the camp closed it was used as a German prisoner-of-war camp until the war in Europe ended.
Little of Jerome survives. Its site is mostly farmland, with a monument and the remains of the hospital smokestack, so the McGehee exhibit is the best place to start. The Rohwer cemetery is about thirteen miles to the northeast, and the museum's site recommends visiting the museum first for background.
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