THE VIRTUAL HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM OUTLINE FOR A WEB-BASED RESOURCE AND EDUCATION CENTRE Nick Verouden & Daan Bronkhorst Amnesty International Amsterdam

Main goals Virtual Museum  Provide a unique interactive space that brings together a wide variety of human rights issues.  Educate visitors about the origins and key concepts of human rights, violations of human rights and activities of past and present human rights defenders

Advantage over ‘physical’ museum  Information can be continuously added to the virtual network  Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Daan Bronkhorst) Online histories and historical material External sources like websites of museums and human rights organizations 'inner shell’ of key human rights information

Advantage over ‘physical’ museum  Information can be continuously added to the virtual network  Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Daan Bronkhorst) Online histories and historical material External sources like websites of museums and human rights organizations 'inner shell’ of key human rights information

Presentation of human rights  Digital storytelling:  video interviews with human rights defenders, footage of victims and survivors, and testimonies of perpetrators and bystanders  Learning resources:  quizzes, puzzles, opinion polls and other learning activities

Multi-entry learning environment  Visitor profiles: reflect the visitor’s understanding of, and engagement with human rights issues  Different customized guided tours: Green Tour: Basic Learning Red Tour: Advanced Learning Blue Tour: Civil Practice Orange Tour: Solidarity

Basic and advanced learning tour  Green Tour: Basic Learning:  Aim: first orientation on human rights issues  Presentation: easy, didactical  Target group: non-professional visitor  Red Tour: Advanced Learning  Aim: analyzing complex human rights issues  Presentation: more scope and the depth, subject-oriented  Target group: basic or expert knowledge of human rights

Civil practice and solidarity tour  Blue Tour: Civil Practice  Aim: think about my position in society (professional)  Presentation: context oriented, linked to relevant social and professional issues  Target group: health worker, lawyer, corporate responsibility executive  Orange Tour: Solidarity  Aim: create more committement  Presentation: action oriented  Target group: intrest in changing professional choices

A short tour through the museum  Orientation: map of the museum.  Frequently Asked Questions  Guided tours  Shows the pillars of human rights thinking, old and new texts, human rights defenders past and present, and international law ENTRANCE/RECEPTIONCENTRAL HALL

Ground floor of the museum  Portrays thinkers, organizers, reformers and law makers from a variety of cultures  All the forms and instances of repression and inhuman behaviour ROOM I: THE FOUNDATIONS ROOM II: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

First floor of the museum  Past and present human rights defenders: how people, individually or organized, stand up for human rights  How organizations research, report and mobilize human rights ROOM III: DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS ROOM IV: DOCUMENTING & CAMPAIGNING

Second floor of the museum  Current activities and addresses important contemporary human rights issues  Resource Centre  Discussion Square where relevant issues can be discussed TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONForum

 Museum Shop with merchandise from museums and organizations (the shop may actually sponsor maintenance of the website).

 This museum is under construction. Please have some patience, it's going to be more interesting and sophisticated over time.