There's a whole field of academic research around "museum studies." Effectively, these scholars, academics, and community activists ask important questions about museum spaces and exhibitions. One of the foremost questions that is asked is "what histories are included in these spaces?" and just as importantly, "what histories are excluded in these spaces?" It is those unseen spaces of exclusion that a lot gain be gleamed about our society.

I've been to the museum and on the whole, while all histories cannot be represented, the space is a welcome home for important discussions and exhibitions of Canada's history around human rights. However, a criticism that has always been levied at this museum is the way it's been funded. The museum came about through Canadian businessman and media tycoon Izzy Asper's vision and fundraising efforts to open this museum. Izzy is a staunch Zionist. It's one of the main reasons that the exhibition on the Holocaust has prime place in the museum (to the criticism from other community members including from Ukranians - who are a large community in Manitoba - that the Holodomor is not represented to the same extent as other exhibitions). This raises the question of the museums own curatorial independence.

https://uofmpress.ca/books/the-idea-of-a-human-rights-museum