The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg has won the Society for Experiential Design's (SEGD's) 2016 Sylvia Harris Award and a Merit Award for some of its newest digital signage installations.

Specifically, the awards honour three exhibitions that Gagarin, an interactive experience firm based in Iceland, was commissioned to design and implement for the museum: Collective Actions: Diptychs, which displays stories of human-rights activism on gesture-controlled 1.4-m (55-in.) screens; Living Tree, a digital projection of Canadian legal documents, declarations and court rulings appearing to grow out of the ground; and Human Rights Defenders, a series of videos about Canadians fighting against human-rights abuses, accessed by touch screen or universal keypad. SEGD's jury particularly applauded Gagarin for making accessibility a core value of these projects' methodologies.

Last year, some of CMHR's earlier digital signage and multimedia content projects won four Muse awards from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM).