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March 2025
Museum celebrates spring break with family‐friendly activities
Winnipeg - March 27, 2025
Free admission all week for children 12 and under
Free event highlights Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust
Winnipeg - March 20, 2025
During the war, Sugihara issued thousands of transit visas, allowing Jewish families from Poland and Lithuania to escape. But the visas were just the beginning of a difficult journey across Asia to find safety in Japan.
Folklorama returns to CMHR with night of music, dance, cuisine, storytelling and human rights
Winnipeg - March 13, 2025
Featuring Winnipeg’s Chilean, Greek, Irish and Indigenous communities
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March 2023
Spring break extravaganza at CMHR this week
Winnipeg - March 28, 2023
Free admission, performances and activities for kids all week
Jingle dress shares stories of family, community and hope
Winnipeg - March 23, 2023
Event this Friday with dressmaker Amanda Grieves and Michael Redhead Champagne
What a way to make a living: film screening on workplace inequality to mark International Women’s Day
Winnipeg - March 7, 2023
Free screening of retrospective on cult classic 9 to 5 starts at noon tomorrow.
Museum welcomes community leader as VP Visitor Experience
Winnipeg - March 7, 2023
An inclusive leader with deep roots in the Franco‐Manitoban community is the new Vice‐President, Visitor Experience at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
The Mariachi Ghost bring anguish, joy, fury to CMHR this Friday
Winnipeg - March 1, 2023
Tickets to show start at just $12, free admission to galleries after 5 p.m.
March 2022
Museum hosts family‐friendly programming for spring break
Winnipeg - March 24, 2022
Free admission Tuesday to Saturday for children 12 and under
March 2021
New CMHR leaders to focus on community and collaboration
Winnipeg, MB - March 29, 2021
Two new leaders have been welcomed to the management team of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) as it continues its journey to build a stronger, more equitable organization, CEO Isha Khan announced today. Riva Harrison brings 20 years of senior leadership experience and a lifelong c …
March 2020
Museum invites social sharing through video stories
Winnipeg - March 30, 2020
Online features encourage focus on human rights during pandemic
CMHR to close due to risks from COVID‐19
Winnipeg - March 13, 2020
Due to public health risks associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic, all national museums of Canada – including the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) – have made the decision to close their doors to visitors and all other groups, effective tomorrow (Saturday, March 14) until further notice. “W …
March 2019
Jailed Iranian‐Canadian journalist to speak at Museum
Winnipeg - March 22, 2019
Jailed Iranian‐Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari – whose best‐selling memoir was the basis for Jon Stewart’s film Rosewater – will speak at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) on Tuesday, March 26. Co‐hosted by the Museum and the Bahá’í Community of Canada, this free public event wil …
Rights fest for children transforms Museum during spring break
Winnipeg - March 21, 2019
Free admission all week for children 12 and under
Mandela’s lessons for Canada
Winnipeg - March 18, 2019
Indigenous leader speaks out on International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Special women’s rights tour offered all week to mark International Women’s Day
Winnipeg - March 1, 2019
Visitors to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) next week can journey through the struggle for women’s rights and inspiring contributions by women in Canada and around the world. A special themed tour will be offered each day to mark International Women’s Day, celebrated globally on Ma …
March 2018
Lessons for laws and lives from Indigenous traditions
Winnipeg - March 23, 2018
CMHR President's Lecture series continues with scholar John Borrows Anishinaabe scholar, author and lawyer John Borrows will deliver the second address in the President's Lecture Series, introduced this year at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). Borrows' lecture on Monday evening (March 2 …
CMHR welcoming an increasing number of visitors from across Canada and the world: Annual Public Meeting
Vancouver - March 21, 2018
Over 60 per cent of visitors to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in 2016–17 came from outside of Winnipeg, the Museum announced at its Annual Public Meeting held in Vancouver today. Growing recognition of the CMHR as a world‐renowned tourism destination is the result of national and …
Freedom of expression and language rights focus of spring break activities at Museum
Winnipeg - March 20, 2018
Free admission all week for children 12 and under Families and young visitors can connect with themes of freedom of expression and language rights during spring break at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), through art projects, storytelling, music and crafts. Children aged 12 and under …
CMHR honoured to be featured on new $10 bank note with Viola Desmond
Winnipeg - March 8, 2018
Museum among symbols connected to pursuit of human rights