TORONTO — Black and Indigenous employees say they were disparaged. Female employees say they were sexually harassed. Guides say their managers instructed them to block off an exhibit on same-sex marriage during tours for religious schools.
All this has happened, critics say, at an unlikely place: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. In recent weeks, the museum has been engulfed by accusations of discrimination and harassment.
And on Wednesday the museum released a report from an external review, which concluded that “racism is pervasive and systemic within the institution.” For a museum devoted to documenting the history of human rights, the report was a stinging rebuke.