The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (photo by Robert Lindsell/Flickr)

After years of planning and controversy, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is officially opening on September 20 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. With a $351 million design of glass and bending lines by Antoine Predock, crowned by a 23-story “Tower of Hope,” its 47,000 square feet of gallery space are the elaborate setting for an ambitious mission.

It’s been quite a decade of a journey for the CMHR, with its initial planner Izzy Aspersuddenly dying in 2003, groundbreaking in 2008, debate over what should be the focus on the museum, and controversy with indigenous groups in Canada over the content not portraying their culture’s destruction as genocide, and then the museum land itself being packed with thousands of indigenous artifacts. (Global News has a more thorough timeline here.).....Continue Reading

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