I couldn’t leave Winnipeg without experiencing the Canadian human rights museum,
and had fabulous company-Alejandra, Paolo and Waira, among others. [Picture of me in front of the museum looking sideways edits, museum is window and wavy modern architectural style, blue sky in background.]
Looking at the exhibits with these folks from Colombia and discussing some of the context and history of Canada, definitely gave me a broader perspective on the human rights issues touched on in the museum. [Selfie- Waira and me smiling in front of a window, I have a blue over shirt with white squiggle pattern and Waira is wearing a cloth hat was a little brim. We're both smiling.]
There are something like five floors with different displays on each floor, and the architecture is wider at the bottom and gets narrower as you go up, with increasing sunlight as well. When you reach the top there is a narrow viewing spot with 360 degree windows. [photo taken at viewing site at the top with Alejandra, Waira and myself smiling in front of a 180° view of the forks in Winnipeg where the red and Assiniboine rivers meet]
Traveling along with the ramp corridors to reach the top, gave a sense of progression or journey -We were wondering if this was meant to symbolize the journeying towards human rights as a sort of final endpoint? Was this a physical representation of the ideal that human rights will lead us to some version of perfect harmony? Or were we transposing these ideals that we have been taught, and then that we critique in various ways, onto the architecture?
[Pic of ramps from the side, there are marble-like sides of the ramps with lights inside so they glow, behind, a huge window with view of field and lots of sunlight. - Ramps and elevators are the only ways to go up and down, so no access segregation]
I don't have that many takeaways from the museum yet, simply because there was so much to take in and I think I need more time to mull about it. BUT! I saw a rad lift in the accessible washroom [large hanging lift on gray wall in dim washroom], which made me have a solo dance party in said washroom hehe