“museum material”

« matériel de musée »

“museum material” means objects and documentary material, regardless of medium or form, of a type normally kept by a museum for reference or exhibition purposes.

Establishment of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Marginal note:Establishment

• 15.1 (1) There is established a corporation to be called the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

• Marginal note:Affiliated museums

  (2) The Canadian Museum for Human Rights shall include any affiliated museums that the Board of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights may, by by-law, establish with the approval of the Governor in Council.

Purpose, Capacity and Powers of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Marginal note:Purpose

15.2 The purpose of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is to explore the subject of human rights, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada, in order to enhance the public’s understanding of human rights, to promote respect for others and to encourage reflection and dialogue.

Marginal note:Capacity and powers

• 15.3 (1) In furtherance of its purpose, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has, subject to this Act, the capacity of a natural person and, elsewhere than in Quebec, the rights, powers and privileges of a natural person. In particular, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights may

  • (a) collect museum material related to human rights;

  • (b) maintain its collection by preservation, conservation or restoration or the establishment of records or documentation;

  • (c) sell, exchange, give away, destroy or otherwise dispose of museum material in its collection and use any revenue obtained from that disposal to further its collection;

  • (d) lend or borrow museum material on long- or short-term loan;

  • (e) organize, sponsor, arrange for or participate in travelling exhibitions, in Canada or internationally, of museum material in its collection or from other sources;

  • (f) undertake or sponsor any research related to its purpose or to museology and communicate the results of that research;

  • (g) provide facilities to permit qualified individuals to use or study its collection;

  • (h) promote knowledge and disseminate information related to its purpose, throughout Canada and internationally, by any appropriate means of education and communication;

  • (i) establish and foster links with other organizations that have a purpose similar to its own;

  • (j) share the expertise of its staff by undertaking or sponsoring training and apprenticeship programs that relate to its purpose;

  • (k) provide or arrange for professional and technical services to any other organization that has a purpose similar to its own;

  • (l) acquire property by gift, bequest or otherwise and hold in trust or otherwise, expend, invest, administer and dispose of that property;

  • (m) develop, operate and maintain branches or exhibition centres;

  • (n) operate restaurants, lounges, parking facilities, shops and other facilities for the use of the public;

  • (o) lease or otherwise make available any of its facilities to other persons; and

  • (p) charge for goods, services and admission and use the revenue so obtained for its own purposes.

• Marginal note:Restriction

  (2) The Canadian Museum for Human Rights may not deal with property otherwise than in accordance with the terms, if any, on which it was acquired or is held.

Marginal note:Pre-establishment contracts

• 24.1 (1) As of the date of its establishment under this Act, each museum shall be bound by any deed, contract or agreement entered into on its behalf by the Minister before its establishment and shall be entitled to the benefits of any such deed, contract or agreement and the Minister shall cease to be bound.

• Marginal note:Not retroactive

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any museum already established by this Act on the day on which that subsection comes into force.

• (c) material placed in the Library and Archives of Canada, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the National Museum of Science and Technology or the Canadian Museum for Human Rights by or on behalf of persons or organizations other than government institutions.

• Canadian Museum for Human Rights

  Musée canadien des droits de la personne

• Canadian Museum for Human Rights

  Musée canadien des droits de la personne

Canadian Museum for Human Rights, with respect to real property or immovables that are owned by Her Majesty in right of Canada and whose administration and control are held by the Museum, whether title to the real property or immovables is vested in the name of Her Majesty or in the name of the Museum.

• Canadian Museum for Human Rights

  Musée canadien des droits de la personne

• (b) material placed in the Library and Archives of Canada, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the National Museum of Science and Technology or the Canadian Museum for Human Rights by or on behalf of persons or organizations other than government institutions.

• Canadian Museum for Human Rights

  Musée canadien des droits de la personne

• Canadian Museum for Human Rights

  Musée canadien des droits de la personne

• Canadian Museum for Human Rights

  Musée canadien des droits de la personne