Human Rights Museum Wins Global Award

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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has won a top award at a prestigious celebration of innovative digital projects at cultural institutions.

The museum was recognized recently at the annual GLAMi Awards in Boston, which showcase outstanding  digital exhibitions. It was one of three finalists in three different categories for its temporary exhibition Mandela: Struggle for Freedom, which runs until the fall.

Other finalists in the same categories included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Anne Frank House and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. 

"This recognition reinforces our place among the best in the world for use of cutting-edge technology and digital interactives, inspiring people to think and talk about human rights in new ways," said the museum's president, John Young. 

The first place award is for a poster-making activity visitors can access on a large touchscreen  or remotely from their own digital devices. Once published, the posters appear in the museum, projected alongside replicas of actual posters used in the fight against apartheid in South Africa.

The museum was also a finalist for a replica of Mandela's tiny South African prison cell, which uses motion-sensor technology to transform it into a theatre when people enter.

A marketing campaign promoting the exhibition was also a finalist.

Source: Canadian Museum for Human Rights