MUSEUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
The coolest building in Canada
Canadian Museum for Human Rights By Dorothy Dobbie
“We want to show you that you don’t have to be Gandhi to count.”
R
ising beside the Red River like smoke from a prairie campfire is the iconic Mu-
seum for Human Rights, an ode to hope for tomorrow’s humanity. Te building itself is beautiful and
inspiring both inside and out, physi- cally designed to illustrate the idea that all of humanity is connected to Mother Earth and therefore all equally deserving of human rights. It
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can also be interpreted as showing us how human thought and action can be raised from the baseness of our everyday instincts, as symbolically rooted in the earth, to the aspirations that set us apart as a species and have made it possible to rise above, in this case, transcendentally into the clouds.
Te building consists of the tree- like roots extending in four direc-
tions on the ground floor. Above this is the mythic mountain of stone that houses the exhibits, the glass cloud designed to resemble the encircling wings of a dove, and the lofty “Tower of Hope” rising 100 metres above the earth, lifting us toward a better world. “Tis is a concept museum, a mu- seum of ideas, not a collection of artefacts commemorating atroci-
The Hub
Photos by Dorothy Dobbie.
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