Winnipeg - The Canadian Museum for Human Rights

 

 

("Welcome Wall", ground floor of the museum.)

 

 

 

If there was one, well, disappointment, on our rail trip across Canada, it was The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. 

 

Not that we were disappointed with the Museum - we were disappointed we didn't have time to actually get "into" the Museum!

 

One of the great perks of taking The Canadian across Canada is the various stops along the way.  The Canadian makes regular stops to take on supplies, switch out crews, etc. in places like Hornepayne, Sioux Lookout, Saskatoon and Jasper.  If the train is stopped long enough, and you're awake (some stops happen in the wee hours of the morning!), you can get off the train and do a little exploring.  Stops last anywhere from twenty-five minutes to three hours.

 

On our particular trip, the stop in Winnipeg was about three hours - 8 until about 11 - 11:30 a.m. 

 

We were able to not only leave the train, but the Winnipeg Via station as well. 

 

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is literally, at the edge of the Via station parking lot.

 

But, if memory serves, we had to be back in the station to re-board the train at about 10:30 - 10:45 a.m.

 

And The Museum did not open it's doors until 10 a.m.  Which only left us about 20 minutes to see everything the museum had to offer! Disappointing to be sure!

 

We did beat a path into the lobby of the museum just after it opened and were lucky enough to gain the sympathetic ear of several tour guides and docents, who after we explained our situation, gave us a condensed, "lobby" tour of basically, everything we would be missing!

 

Let's just say, The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is now on the bucket list!!!