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The Museum is closed for annual maintenance from Jan. 12-20, 2025

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We explore human rights from many different angles and perspectives. Check out our past events (since March 2018).

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January 2025

The Frost Moon and natural law: Walking gently

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

Event details
The large full moon rises over a snowy hill covered in pine trees.

December 2024

Winter break activities 2024–25

December 27, 2024 to January 5, 2025

Cost: Free

Location: Various locations in the Museum

Event details
A group of children and youth paint with small brushes. They are gathered on both sides of a long table with different coloured paints in the foreground.

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

Event details
A traditional Indigenous structure, commonly called a tipi, made of sticks sits on a leaf-strewn forest floor, surrounded by cut logs.

Winter piñata workshop

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Cost: $19.99 per person, tax included. All materials and supplies are included in the cost.

Location: Stuart Clark Garden of Contemplation

Event details
A child making a craft works intently to pull a string. The child is dressed in a blue sweatshirt with a snowman on it.

Human Rights Day 2024

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Cost: Free all day to everyone

Location: Locations throughout the Museum

Event details
A large crowd in a Museum gallery. Most people are looking at a display on the wall of the gallery. The display consists of a series of pictures and of long rectangular text panels placed horizontally.

Holiday wreathmaking workshops

December 7 and 8, 2024

Cost: $39.99 per kit/person, tax included

Location: Stuart Clark Garden of Contemplation

Event details
A close-up of two people making a wreath. One person is holding clippers and is about to cut some wire.

November 2024

Annual Public Meeting 2024

November 19, 2024

Cost: Free; registration required in advance

Location: Online via Zoom

Event details
Four individuals follow the path toward the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on a fall day. Three are on foot and one is in a wheelchair.

One Land Two Hearts

November 17, 2024

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Stuart Clark Garden of Contemplation, Level 3

Event details
Tall spruce trees lean together against a night sky that is alive with greenish northern lights and stars.

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

Event details
A close-up of a segment of the moon’s surface.

October 2024

Chasing wrongs, defending rights

October 30, 2024

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Manitoba Teachers’ Society Classrooms, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Level 1

Event details
In the Sri Lankan city Vavuniya in 2017, Elaine Pearson meets with Tamil mothers protesting the enforced disappearance of their children during Sri Lanka's civil war.

Too old, too young

Monday, October 28, 2024

Cost: Free

Location: This virtual dialogue will be held on Zoom.

Event details
A young woman who looks to be in her teen years smiles as she works at a computer alongside an older, white-haired woman who is also smiling.

Sharing the Migration Moon

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

Event details
A flock of geese fly in unison against a brilliant blue sky.

Culinary Night at the Museum

Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 6 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. seatings

Cost: $135 includes dinner, $170 includes dinner and signature drink at each stop

Location: Various locations in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
An elegant long table with people dining in an architecturally striking space, featuring tall glass windows and a high ceiling supported by metal beams.

September 2024

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

September 30, 2024

Cost: Admission is free to all on September 30

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
Hundreds of demonstrators in orange shirts, many also wearing traditional Indigenous articles such as a headdress or ribbon skirt and carrying signs, march down a wide paved street.

Nuit Blanche 2024

September 28, 2024

Cost: Free and open to all

Location: Outside and inside on Level 1

Event details
The exterior of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is pictured at night. The building is lit up from the inside with vibrant deep blue lights.

The Mating Moon, thankfulness and honouring our passage into the fall equinox

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6.

Event details
A large tipi sits in a field of grass. Its poles rise into a misty sky.

Friday, September 20, 2024

Cost: Free; registration is required. Ticket includes complimentary admission to Beyond the Beat: Music of Resistance and Change.

Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1

Event details
A bearded, dark-haired man, wearing sunglasses and a black t-shirt, is performing on stage using a computer and an electronic keyboard mixer.

The right to be known

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Cost: Free, registration encouraged

Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1, CMHR

Event details
A painting, mostly in black and white with a few splashes of colour, is in the style of a mosaic so that different tiles contain various natural elements—a fish, flowers, mountains, fields. Together the tiles become a human face directly looking at the viewer with an intense expression.

August 2024

Gone too soon: Send your message on Overdose Awareness Day

August 31, 2024

Cost: Free

Location: Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Event details
Three-petal flowers made of paper in various shades of purple are grouped together in a wall display. Names and messages are written on them.

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Cost: Free, registration required

Location: The group will meet in Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1 and proceed together to Level 6

Event details
A duck flying up alongside a concrete block wall that bears the duck’s shadow.

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