This important and necessary project will build on our existing 18 exhibitions and will continue to raise awareness by educating people about the Residential School System, experiences of First Nations, Inuit and Métis children who sought to escape the system and ran for their lives. The exhibition will give first person testimony

The Waniskahtan project is designed to educate and create greater awareness about the high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG), and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and 2-Spirit (LGBTQ2S), in order to commemorate them and to prevent future occurrences. This project will create a travelling exhibition and accompanying

This exhibition explores the concept of Reconciliation through artistic expression and what that means to youth in Canada. The banners feature artworks and poems by winners of the first Imagine a Canada    competition announced in March 2016. Imagine a Canada is an annual national art and essay competition sponsored by the National

Debuted in November 2015 at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, Forgotten is a modular exhibition that uses art, artefacts, poetry, images and text to explore the experiences of Métis children in the residential schools, experiences that have been, up until now, largely lost and forgotten. This exhibition explores Métis

This exhibition, the first in Canada to be developed on residential schools, uses archival photographs and documents, to tell the story of the System using a more traditional museum-style format. The content is presented on text panels and the images as framed photographs.This exhibition spans over 125 years and contains photographs and documents from

The first of its kind, this exhibition explores the experiences of Survivors of the Sixties Scoop, which began in the 1960s, where Indigenous children were taken from their families, often forcibly and fostered and/or adopted out to non-Indigenous homes often far away from their communities and some across the globe. Developed

On June 11, 2008, then Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, made a Statement of Apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools on behalf of the Government of Canada for the emotional, physical, sexual, spiritual, cultural and mental abuse they experienced while in care at the schools, and as part

As medical health officer for the Department of Indian Affairs, Bryce had found that large numbers of First Nations children were dying each year due to conditions in Residential Schools and lack of tuberculosis treatment from 1904 to 1921. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission estimates that at least more than 6,000 children died

A National Crime: Canada's Indian Residential School This exhibition explores the creation of the Residential School System, the experiences of the students, its impacts and traumas, and Indigenous-led political action, healing, and efforts towards Reconciliation. Our Exhibitions

For several centuries, Indigenous children were taken from their homes and communities and placed in institutions called Residential Schools. These schools were run by religious orders in collaboration with the Federal Government and were attended by children as young as four or five years of age. (100 years was