Join us as we join the world in celebrating Human Rights Day on December 10, when we offer FREE admission for everyone and special programs and activities throughout the day.
Human Rights Day marks the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed at the United Nations on December 10, 1948. The declaration sets out, in 30 brief articles, the inherent human rights that belong to all of us, and that must be advanced and protected everywhere. The most translated document in the world, it is now available in 577 languages.
Activities to mark Human Rights Day
Tell us what you would add to our human rights timeline (11 a.m.–4 p.m.):
What are human rights? That is the question posed in the first gallery visitors encounter on
Level 2 — a question that has been asked for millennia. The gallery contains a timeline of 100 selected moments in human rights history from around the globe. On Human Rights Day, we will ask visitors: What would you add? What events, ideas, movements and people do you want to see on the timeline?