Winnipeg - October 13, 2022

Free admission to the Museum this Friday after 5:00 p.m., performance at 7:30 p.m.

Winnipeg - October 11, 2022

CMHR CEO to be joined by women leaders at RWB performances to discuss themes from iconic story

Winnipeg - August 11, 2022

Matthew Cutler (he/him) will join the CMHR as the new Vice‐President, Exhibitions.

Winnipeg - June 28, 2022

Stories feature youth voices calling for action

Winnipeg - May 31, 2022

Panel discussion, public launch to open free exhibition on May 31

Winnipeg - May 17, 2022

End of “men’s” and “women’s” washrooms a step to create safer experiences for 2SLGBTQ+ community, caregivers.

Winnipeg - March 24, 2022

Free admission Tuesday to Saturday for children 12 and under

Winnipeg - January 25, 2022

In 1940, as Nazi forces advanced through France, Aristides de Sousa Mendes served as the Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux. He defied orders of his government and issued an estimated 30,000 visas and passports to those fleeing Nazi persecution. Among them were thousands of Jews seeking safety amid the h …

Winnipeg - December 9, 2021

Free admission, dazzling evening light show mark International Human Rights Day

Winnipeg - November 24, 2021

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is welcoming a new senior leader who will help transform its workplace into a stronger, more equitable organization, CEO Isha Khan announced today. Kimberley Levasseur Puhach brings extensive experience in strategic management, organizational development …

Winnipeg - November 9, 2021

A conversation about rights and democracy in the digital age

Winnipeg - November 8, 2021

Free admission for veterans and military this week

Winnipeg - October 5, 2021

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), in cooperation with the LGBT Purge Fund, has created a new advisory council for a major project to develop exhibitions, public and education programs and digital content on the LGBT Purge. The Purge was the longest‐running and largest‐scale violation o …

Winnipeg - September 23, 2021

International and Indigenous artists join virtual CMHR panel discussion

Winnipeg - September 14, 2021

An Alberta teacher who co‐founded the province’s first Black Teachers Association has become the new Educator in Residence with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). Sarah Adomako‐Ansah will share her passion for diversity, representation and technology to create CMHR programs and resource …

Winnipeg - July 28, 2021

Young Manitobans are sharing their visions for the future of human rights in a vibrant exhibition called ARTiculate Our Rights, which opens inside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) on July 30. Media are invited to a preview tomorrow. More than 100 teenagers from across the province subm …

Winnipeg - July 26, 2021

800 objects hold stories of residential school survivors from across Canada

Winnipeg - July 20, 2021

Over the last few days, we have received numerous questions, comments and criticism about our decision to reopen on July 27 in compliance with the provincial public health order. Currently, the law specifically allows us to admit only those visitors who have been double vaccinated against COVID‐19 o …

Winnipeg - May 17, 2021

University student Alec Carlos was walking in the mall with some friends when he heard it. Coming from a group of young white men passing by – which included some of his former schoolmates. “One of them said, ‘These Asians are taking over our town,’” said Carlos, who was born in the Philippines a …

Winnipeg - April 29, 2021

Powerful works of art that have inspired action for human rights around the world are featured in two exhibitions opening tomorrow (April 30) at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). See video. Faces of captured Yazidi women, preserved in paper‐mâché, dangle from the bars of a steel cage. On …