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Exhibitions and Events: Expand your views on human rights.

Through our galleries and programs, you will encounter thousands of stories featuring people, events and ideas from all over the world. We explore moments of human rights advancement and others of setback. These stories encourage us all to consider how our choices affect others, from our neighbours to people across the globe.

Feature event The Canadian Centre for Child Protection

May 6, 2025 — November 2025

Learn about this organization’s work to protect the human rights and dignity of all young people.

Large dark blue panels with white text and graphics displayed in the Community Corridor at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The centre panel features a circular logo and commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. The two panels on either side present bilingual text in English and French. Partially obscured.

Dimensions in Testimony

Saturdays at 1:15 p.m. (English) and 2:15 p.m. (French).
Times are subject to change.

A small group of people sitting on wooden benches in a theatre face a screen showing an older woman seated in a chair. A man in a yellow shirt is standing to the right of the screen holding a microphone. Partially obscured.

The Witness Blanket

September 20, 2024 to September 20, 2027

A museum exhibition featuring a large, curved freestanding wooden wall on which is mounted numerous small objects arranged in diamond and rectangular patterns. In the foreground, there circular benches creating an inviting space for visitors to view and contemplate the exhibit. Partially obscured.

Love in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s LGBT Purge

January 31, 2025 to early 2026

A large group of protestors march through a city while two uniformed RCMP officers keep watch. In this black-and-white image, the protestors' signs and banners call for an end to discriminatory practices against members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community. Partially obscured.

Reclaiming Power and Place

May 3, 2025 - April 5, 2030

Six red dresses and a white dress in the middle are suspended on wooden clothes hangers in front of a backdrop. A white star glows at the location of the heart on the central white dress. The backdrop features patterns on a birchbark texture. Some of the patterns are illuminated from behind to create glowing star-like features on the panels. Partially obscured.

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