VIDEO: Canadian Museum for Human Rights exhibit: What are Human Rights?
WINNIPEG – When the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is complete, it will offer a human rights “journey,” museum officials say.
While all of the museum’s exhibits aren’t visitor-ready on its opening weekend, 9,000 lucky people won free tickets to tour four exhibits Saturday and Sunday. The tickets were awarded by draw to those who sent emails after demand for them crashed the museum’s online booking system on Sept. 3.
While not everyone can get inside this weekend, Global News offers video sneak peeks at five of the galleries.
Gallery: What are Human Rights? (video at the top of this page)
This gallery explores the concept of human rights and how the meaning has changed over the years. A multimedia experience will show people’s perspectives on human rights. A timeline presents 100 moments in human rights history around the world.
VIDEO: Canadian Museum for Human Rights exhibit: Indigenous Perspectives
Gallery: Indigenous Perspectives
This gallery focuses on First Nations, Metis and Inuit people’s concepts of rights and responsibilities in which everyone and everything is connected. The focus is a circular theatre of wooden slats in the centre of the gallery. Inside the theatre are several original works of art. It will also play a 360-degree film about indigenous rights and responsibilities over several generations.
VIDEO: Canadian Museum for Human Rights exhibit: Canadian Journeys
Gallery: Canadian Journeys
This gallery is all about the road to greater rights for everyone in Canada. This is the largest gallery in the museum. It explores Canadian stories about the steps we’ve taken and the challenges Canadians have overcome. A 29-metre screen displays visual stories.
VIDEO: Canadian Museum for Human Rights exhibit: Protecting Rights in Canada
Gallery: Protecting Rights in Canada
This gallery explores legal aspects of Canadian Human Rights. The digital tree represents the ability of Canadian laws to adapt, change and grow. The Proclamation of the Constitution Act (1982) will be displayed here.
VIDEO: Canadian Museum for Human Rights exhibit: Breaking the Silence
This gallery is about the power of words and breaking the silence. It includes an examination of the Ukrainian Holodomor, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia. A digital study table is the centrepiece.
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