CMHR’s first outdoor exhibit explores women’s rights

WINNIPEG — The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is currently hosting their first outdoor gallery exhibit at Festival du Voyageur.

The exhibit is called “Let Them Howl: 100 Years in the Women’s Rights Struggle” and was developed by the CMHR and Library and Archives Canada.

“Women got the right to vote in Canada 100 years ago right here in Manitoba,” Maureen Fitzhenry with the CMHR said. “So these portraits take us from then right to the modern day.”

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The exhibit also features a selfie frame that anyone can take a photo with. The background of the frame is an old photograph of the Walker Theatre, where Nellie McClung held her famous ‘Women in Parliament’ play back in 1914.

The museum hopes the exposure of the exhibit gets more people talking about women’s rights, including what’s been accomplished so far and what more needs to be done.

The exhibit is running until February 21, and then opens back up to the public again on March 8 at Fort Gibraltar.