Exhibit E / A Canadian connection
Canada’s response.
A history to carry forward.
Explore Canada’s humanitarian response to the Armenian Genocide through the people, relief efforts and survivor histories presented in Exhibit E.
From aid and refuge to remembrance, follow a history that connects Armenian lives with Canada—and consider what preserving those connections means today.
Explore Canada’s Response ↗
Exhibit A / The Film Archive
History survives. On film.
Some images were never meant to be forgotten. Enter The Genocide Digital, a cinematic journey through historical footage, archival records and the enduring memory of the Armenian Genocide.
Enter the Film Archive
EXHIBIT G · ARMENIAN LIFE BEFORE 1915
Armenian Life Before 1915
The Interactive Atlas
Discover the Armenian cities, villages and communities that flourished before the Armenian Genocide. Explore their schools, churches, businesses, cultural institutions and the everyday lives of the people who built them.
From Constantinople and the Armenian Highlands to Cilicia and the Mediterranean ports, the Interactive Atlas brings Armenian history to life through an expanding collection of places, historical records and stories of enterprise, culture and community.
Explore the Atlas ↗
From the museum archive · Historical film
A word that changed international law.
Raphael Lemkin at the United Nations on coining the word “Genocide.”
On February 13, 1949, CBS aired Raphael Lemkin discussing how he coined the word genocide, citing the Armenian Genocide and the Tehlirian trial. The interview followed the UN’s adoption of the Genocide Convention on December 9, 1948, before its entry into force in 1951.
Archival interview · February 13, 1949
Continue your visit · Four ways to explore
The past asks
something of us.
Learn the history. Follow new research. Preserve the evidence. Confront hatred. Each path opens another part of the museum.
Learn
Discover the history of the Armenian Genocide, its causes, consequences and continued denial. Understand why remembrance matters—and how education can help prevent future atrocities.
Explore the history 02 / DISCOVERLatest
Read researched features on Armenian survival, remembrance and cultural preservation. Follow the evidence and discover connections across the museum.
Read the journal 03 / REMEMBERPreserve
Help preserve Armenian heritage through family artifacts, photographs and documents, including the distinct experiences and voices of Armenian women.
Contribute an artifact 04 / TAKE ACTIONEnd Armenophobia
Understand anti-Armenian prejudice, how it spreads and why confronting denial, discrimination and hatred begins with education and awareness.
Understand ArmenophobiaResearch / The lives behind the record
Follow the evidence.
Recover the history.
Behind a building, a business or a family document lies a history worth understanding. Explore Armenian lives, cultural inheritance and economic loss through studies you can read, question and return to.
Sources to follow. Methods to examine. Studies that grow with the evidence.
Architecture: Guillaume Berggren, 1870, Library of Congress, public domain. Family portrait: Calouste Gulbenkian and family, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian collection, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0). Monochrome display and layout crops. Contextual images; the portrait is not evidence of property confiscated during the Genocide.
