Canadian Museum of Human Rights

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The Museum of Human Rights

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights ( Canadian Museum for Human Rights ) is a museum in Winnipeg , the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba . Built from 2008 to the end of 2012 at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers , the museum opened on September 19, 2014. It is the only national museum in Canada outside of the capital, Ottawa, and the first of its kind to be built since 1967.

history

The Human Rights Museum, view from The Forks, November 2011

The museum goes back to the initiative of Izzy Asper , the founder of CanWest . His aim was not only to enable work on human rights and to present them in a museum, but also to promote downtown Winnipeg. Izzy began his initiative on April 17, 2003, the 21st anniversary of the signing of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms , but died that same year. His daughter Gail Asper continued the project.

In the same year, the Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights , led by Gail Asper, organized a competition in which 62 companies from 21 countries took part. The choice fell on a design by Antoine Predock , an architect from Albuquerque , New Mexico . The idea was to go up from the roots, the underground parts of the museum, into the Tower of Hope, which also opens up a view of Winnipeg. Predock was also inspired by the natural landscapes of Canada, the northern lights and the First Nations .

On April 20, 2007, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the government's intention to turn the museum into a national museum. To this end, Bill C-42 was passed on March 13, 2008.

On December 19, 2008, the construction project began. Construction began in April 2009 and should be completed by 2012. Due to higher construction costs, however, construction was delayed and will therefore only open in 2014.

At the beginning of the construction phase, the elderly sank the medicine bags they had made in Thunderbird House in Winnipeg into the holes provided for the stands to symbolize respect for Mother Earth. Queen Elizabeth II laid the foundation stone on July 3, 2010. She left a stone from the ruins of St. Mary's Priory in Runnymede , where the English king approved the Magna Carta in 1215 .

criticism

Criticism of the location sparked because there was possibly a holy place there that was not adequately documented. The museum management referred to consultations with the elders of the First Nations . No human remains have been found during relevant excavations. However, more than 50 studies since 1950 determine that the area was already before 4000 BC. Was used.

Criticism of the concept of the twelve galleries was sparked by the fact that the questions asked by the museum put a special emphasis on the persecution of the Jews and the First Nations, but also other minorities such as Ukrainians, Japanese, Italians and Germans who were abused during the world wars had not been recognized. There was also the question of whether the global human rights issue should not be discussed, not just events in Canada. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress wrote a petition for equality and fairness in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights . She calls for consideration of the Holodomor from 1932 to 1933, which the Canadian government recognized as genocide in 2008. According to the museum, the Holocaust will have its own gallery, as will the crimes against the indigenous peoples, the Holodomor a permanent exhibition in the area of ​​mass crimes, and the Canadian internments.

financing

The federal government, the provincial government and the city of Winnipeg share the financing of the project, which is planned to amount to 310 million dollars, plus private donors. So far, the three institutions have deposited $ 100 million, $ 40 million and $ 20 million, respectively. The Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights raised $ 125 million by early 2011. In April 2011, the house received $ 3.6 million from the City of Winnipeg.

The Canadian federal government bears the running costs of $ 23 million annually for the museum once it opens, as it is a national museum.

Exhibitions

The designers of the opening events are Ralph Appelbaum Associates from New York , whereby the struggle for human rights in Canada, the concept of the indigenous peoples on human rights, the Holocaust and current topics are to be honored in exhibitions. To collect Canadian stories about the museum, a collection of stories was organized under the title Help Write the Story of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights . To this end, a team traveled through the country from May 2009 to February 2010 and visited 19 cities to ask people about their experiences with human rights. The surveys were carried out by Lord Cultural Resources from Toronto. The results are part of the exhibitions.

The exhibition galleries are dedicated to the following topics:

  1. History and content of human rights
  2. The native peoples' perspective on human rights (including the Aborigines )
  3. Canadian documents and testimonies of ethnic rights violations (result of 2009/2010 trip)
  4. The position of human rights in Canadian society
  5. Genocide by the example of the recognized by the Canadian government examples ( Holocaust , Holodomor , the Armenian genocide , genocide in Rwanda and the massacre at Srebrenica )
  6. Actions for human rights
  7. The meaning of the words - The end of the silence about human rights violations
  8. Actions - Current Human Rights Education
  9. Human rights today
  10. Gallery with objects and pictures that promoted human rights.

The museum's partners are:

Web links

Commons : Canadian Museum for Human Rights  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ National Post - Canadian Museum for Human Rights opens amidst controversy and protests, September 19, 2014, accessed December 5, 2014
  2. ^ Canadian Museum for Human Rights. (No longer available online.) Prime Minister's Office, December 19, 2008, archived from original on March 31, 2010 ; Retrieved February 14, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pm.gc.ca
  3. ^ The Architect. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 26, 2013 ; Retrieved February 14, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / humanrightsmuseum.ca
  4. ↑ Christopher Hume: Soaring design tells human rights tale , in: Toronto Star, December 19, 2009
  5. ^ The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Antoine Predock Architect
  6. ↑ Bill C-42: An Act to amend the Museums Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts ( Memento of the original of May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.parl.gc.ca archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Government of Canada (PDF; 83 kB)
  7. ^ Mia Rabson: Museum sod to be turned - no matter how cold , in: Winnipeg Free Press, December 19, 2008.
  8. ↑ The Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Building the Museum ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / humanrightsmuseum.ca
  9. ↑ a b Human rights museum construction hits milestone. CBC News , September 20, 2012, accessed February 14, 2013 .
  10. ↑ The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is honored to welcome Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada to the site of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 8, 2011 ; Retrieved February 14, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / humanrightsmuseum.ca
  11. ↑ Ruins of St. Mary's Priory - Runnymede
  12. ^ Queen gives Canadian Museum for Human Rights a piece of history , CTV, July 3, 2010
  13. ↑ Bless Museum's Sacred Ground: Native Elders Work with Crews During Construction , in: Winnipeg Free Press, June 2, 2009
  14. ↑ Sandra Jezik, Paul Downie, Lori McKinnon: The Forks National Historic Site of Canada - Archaeological Artifact Catalog , Winnipeg 2003 (created for the Manitoba Field Unit, Cultural Resource Services, Western Canada Service Center, Parks Canada)  ( page no longer available , Search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.theforks.com  
  15. ^ Paul Downie: The Forks National Historic Site of Canada: Cultural Resource Inventory and Cumulative Impacts Analysis. (PDF) (No longer available online.) 2002, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 6, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.theforks.com  
  16. ^ Petition for equity and fairness at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights , February 2, 2011.
  17. ↑ PM receives Shevchenko Medal Award ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The Prime Minister of Canada - Stephen Harper .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pm.gc.ca
  18. ^ The Canadian Museum for Human Rights: About the Museum: Corporate Governance: Corporate Reports: Corporate Plans: Financial Statements ( Memento of March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  19. ↑ The Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.friendsofcmhr.com
  20. ^ Council grants more money to rights museum , CBC News, April 27, 2011.
  21. ^ Lord Cultural Resources .

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