The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation opened the Heart Mountain Wyoming Interpretive Learning Center on August 20, 2011. The museum features photographs and artifacts of its prisoners, two replicated barracks, and exhibits about camp life and the impact of the incarceration. The centerpiece of the ILC is the Mineta/Simpson Friendship Hall, a theater/multipurpose area named in honor of former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta and retired U.S. Senator Alan Simpson, who met as Boy Scouts from opposite sides of the barbed wire fence surrounding the Heart Mountain compound. Their friendship has spanned more than six decades.
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