Museums are different. Some have collections of paintings and sculptures. Others are dedicated to the lives of famous people. There are museums of cinema, ballet, and theater. And there is a Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. This was an unusual decision to build a museum based on a democratic state. It is the only Museum for Human Rights in the world.

This museum is very young. It was decided to create it in 2008. It is noteworthy that this is the first National Museum to be established in Canada in the last 40 years. Before that, there were only frequent small museums and galleries. A project of such a large scale did not exist.

The Museum for Human Rights ideological mastermind was Canadian media mogul Asper. He gave 20 million dollars for construction.

The architects chose a place for the museum, started working on the site, and faced a serious problem: artifacts dating back to 1100 were found on the designated territory. More than 400,000 different archeological finds led to a significant slowdown in the construction of the Museum. There were even proposals to move it to another city. But after a detailed study of the area, it was decided to continue construction.

There were also problems with the opening of the museum. The museum's 10 main galleries contain exhibitions that deal with major themes of human rights violations: the Holocaust, persecution of indigenous peoples, and various types of discrimination. Many people were dissatisfied with this approach. They felt that some issues were given too much attention, while others were not presented at all.

The debate about what the Museum for Human Rights should be and what it exhibits should contain continues to this day. Museum staff says that the material is constantly collected. Therefore, it was not possible to cover all the problems and issues related to human rights at once before the opening. But, unfortunately, not all visitors to the museum are ready to understand this approach. You can often hear that the Museum for Human Rights contains only selected topics that were close to its creator.