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Photo/Cyan Haribhai
Uprooted: Resilience in Crisis
This exhibit seeks to shed light on the impact of gender-based violence, exploring the stories of survivors, the resilience of affected communities, and the ongoing struggle for justice and healing. Through a diverse array of art forms, it offers a platform for survivors to share their experiences and for audiences to engage with this urgent issue.
This exhibit is organized and endorsed by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
On display until 7 February 2025
Pictures for the Human Rights
This exhibition features 30 pictures in which artists from many countries have interpreted the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in their own visual language. These images make human rights easier to understand in words and pictures, inspiring visitors to defend and promote Human Rights for everyone everywhere. The exhibit is in connection with Human Rights Day (10 December).
This exhibit is organized by the Pictures for the Human Rights e.V and endorsed by the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations.
On display until 10 January 2025
Photo/Jehad Al Shrafii
Gaza, Palestine: A Crisis of Humanity, A Cry for Justice
This collective photo essay presents a small glimpse into the profoundly tragic reality and the suffering borne by the Palestinian people in Gaza today through compelling images captured since October 2023 by 14 Palestinian photojournalists from Gaza and their reflections of the moments these photographs were taken.
This exhibit is organized by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in cooperation with the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations.
On display until 10 January 2025
Upcoming Exhibits
Credits: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Holocaust Remembrance: A Commitment to Truth
Marking 80 years since the end of the Second World War and the establishment of the United Nations, this exhibition presents an overview of the history of the Holocaust, the factors that facilitated the Holocaust, and the impact it had on communities caught in the theatre of war and genocide. The intention of the exhibition is to give back, through remembrance, dignity to the victims that the perpetrators aimed to destroy.
This exhibit is organized by The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme in connection with the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (27 January).
On display 16 January to 21 February 2025
Credit: Yad Vashem
Lest We Forget
This exhibition provides glimpses of moments of kindness and compassion, of life enjoyed, and of the intimate connections that existed in Jewish families and communities before the Holocaust. The photographs stand as stark evidence of the deep and terrible loss and destruction wrought by the Nazis and their racist collaborators during the Holocaust, in their attempt to destroy all trace of Jewish life, tradition, communities, homes, families and individuals.
This exhibit is organized by The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme in connection with the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (27 January).
On display 15 January to 21 February 2025
Credit: Yad Vashem
Auschwitz - A Place on Earth. The Auschwitz Album
Designed and curated by Yad Vashem, World Center for Holocaust Remembrance, this exhibition depicts the only known visual documentation of the arrival of a transport of Jews to Auschwitz Birkenau. The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder perpetrated by the Nazis at Auschwitz Birkenau. The photos in the album show the entire process except for the killing itself. The photos were taken at the end of May or beginning of June 1944, either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task was to take ID photos and fingerprints of the inmates (not of the Jews who were sent directly to the gas chambers). The photos show the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia.
This exhibit is organized by Yad Vashem and endorsed by The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme and the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations. It is in connection with the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (27 January).
On display 15 January to 21 February 2025
Credit: Fleur Spolidor&Sawyer Rose
Rules, Responsibilities, Restraints: Women’s Pursuit of Equity
This exhibit combines visual art and storytelling to spark public dialogue about gender equity and the empowerment of women. It stands up against systems of oppression by telling women’s stories and raising awareness about social issues affecting women and girls worldwide.
This exhibit is organized by Fleur Spolidor and Sawyer Rose and endorsed by the European Union Delegation to the United Nations. It is in connection with CSW69 and International Women’s Day (8 March).
Coming February 2025
Photo/Barbara Walker
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance
This exhibit brings together collections from across the University of Cambridge’s museums, libraries and colleges with loans from around the world to ask new questions about England’s role in the transatlantic slave trade and look at how objects and artworks have influenced history and perspectives.
This exhibit is organized by the Fitzwilliam Museum and endorsed by The Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery (Department of Global Communications).
Coming February 2025
Ongoing Exhibit
Drawing by Hugh Ferriss for the Board of Design, 1947.
UN Headquarters: A Workshop for 国产AV
The exhibition features archival images of the planning and building of UNHQ between 1949 and 1952 and photos of the recently renovated compound. The exhibition also includes photos of the recently renovated UNHQ (renovation: 2008-2014).
The exhibition is organized by the Department of Global Communication.