Your museum, your stories
Opening in Winnipeg, Manitoba on September 20, 2014, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) will be the only museum in the world solely devoted to human rights awareness and education. An estimated 250,000 visitors will come through the Museum's doors each year.

Each of the Museum's 11 galleries explores human rights issues from a variety of perspectives, encouraging visitors to make important connections between universal themes, historical moments and personal experiences.

As part of this approach, the CMHR weaves human rights stories related to China and Chinese Canadians throughout not one but many of its galleries and exhibits. The Museum has received excellent input from expert scholars and Chinese Canadian advisors in the development of this material.

The Breaking the Silence Gallery
This gallery explores the human rights practice of breaking silence – using our hard-won freedom of speech to create a climate of accountability for gross violations of human rights. Visitors to this gallery will be invited to participate in breaking the silence over 16 large-scale human rights violations, including the 19th century slave trade, the "Comfort Women" system of sexual slavery in the Second World War in Asia, violence that erupted during India's partition, and violations committed against Indigenous Peoples in Canada through Indian Residential Schools. The exhibits will encourage visitors to participate in a variety of ways. For instance, a study table containing a wealth of evidence pertaining to each event will encourage deeper investigation, and private carrels will allow visitors to hear audio testimony from witnesses to these events.

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