Canadian Museum for Human Rights

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) sets new international benchmarks for universal design. Beyond providing universal building accessibility, the museum delivers its exhibitions in innovative ways, ensuring people of all ages and abilities are able to engage with and experience museum content in a meaningful way.

It's a blue sky day and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights sits before us. A light pathway arcs from the right of the picture to the entrance on the bottom level. This level is made of stone and the top levels of the structure bulge to the sky, encased in grey-blue glass. This glass structure is made of bended plates, almost like an armadillo, with a glass spire rising above. People walk in and out of the entrance below, they look tiny in comparison to the building.

Northern façade of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

The museum’s exceptionally design was developed with nation-wide input from the disability community. It utilises cutting-edge technology and pioneering Canadian accessibility research. The result is an architectural masterpiece, that extends beyond the purely aesthetic to integrate world-class wayfinding, physical accessibility, visitor services and universally interactive digital and non-digital exhibition content.