The idea of a human rights museum /edited by Karen Busby, Adam Muller, and Andrew Woolford. 
 Human rights museum 

 - Winnipeg, Manitoba :  University of Manitoba Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource (371 pages) 
 - Human rights and social justice series,  1 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> The idea of a human rights museum /  Grounding the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in conversation /  Protecting human rights and preventing genocide : the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the will to intervene /  Toward radical transparency at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights : lessons from media coverage during construction /  Illusion and the human rights museum /  Change of plans : conceptualizing inaugural exhibits at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights /  Transcendence or struggle? Top-down and bottom-up narratives of human rights /  Engaging machines : experience, empathy, and the modern museum /  Curatorial practice and learning from difficult knowledge /  Viewer discretion : curatorial strategies and consequences of exhibition signage /  Representing agricultural migrant workers in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights /  The museology of human rights /  Temporalizing history toward the future : representing violence and human rights violations in the Military History Museum in Dresden /  Overcoming illiteracy in idea-driven museums : a curatorial conundrum /  Curating action : comparative genocide exhibits and the "call to action" at the Kigali Memorial Centre, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia /  What (and how) to remember? Spaces for memory in post-dictatorship Argentina /  Beyond difficult histories : First Nations, the right to culture, and the obligation of redress /  From imagination to inauguration /  Karen Busby, Adam Muller, and Andrew Woolford --  Ken Norman --  A. Dirk Moses --  Helen Fallding --  David Petrasek --  Karen Busby --  Christopher Powell --  Adam Muller, Struan Sinclair, and Andrew Woolford --  Angela Failler and Roger I. Simon --  Mary Reid --  Armando Perla --  Jennifer Carter --  Stephan Jaeger --  George Jacob --  Amanda Grzyb --  Jorge A. Nállim --  Ruth B. Phillips --  Jodi Giesbrecht and Clint Curle. 
<br/><br/> "The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and institutions elsewhere in the world that emphasize human rights and social justice. This collection brings together authors from diverse fields--law, cultural studies, museum studies, sociology, history, political science, and literature--to critically assess the potentials and pitfalls of human rights education through "ideas" museums. Accessible, engaging, and informative, the collection's essays will encourage museum-goers to think more deeply about the content of human rights exhibits."-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780887554698 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016417820 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>(AMICUS)000043888444 C20159034906 C20159034914 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human rights--Museums--Social aspects.<br/>Human rights--Museums--Political aspects.<br/>Museum architecture.<br/>Museum exhibits--Case studies.<br/>Museums and Indigenous peoples--Canada.<br/>Museum studies.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>AM101  / .I343 2015