The Building in Detail

The Numbers

• 24,154 m2 (260,000 ft2) building
• 18,000 m2 of Manitoba Tyndall stone in the Roots 
• 3,540 person-years of employment in the project
• 4,366.4 m2 (47,000 ft2) of exhibit space  
• 3,200 metre-square plates of alabaster, quarried in Spain
• 1,669 pieces of glass (1,335 in the Glass Cloud, 334 on the Tower of Hope) 
• 773 metres (2,533 feet) of white alabaster ramps
• 600 tons of black basalt from Mongolia in the Garden of Contemplation
• 444 piles supporting the building, each with a traditional medicine bag buried beside it
• 250 person-years for skilled trades people
• 142 concrete caissons
• 100-metre (328-foot) Tower of Hope, 78 feet higher than Manitoba’s Golden Boy and 25 feet higher than the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa
• 10 exhibit zones
• 5.2-metre (17-foot) ceilings, on average

The Exhibits in Detail

The Numbers

• 100,000 words of original text
• 2,543 images
• 512 video clips
• 160 objects and works of art
• 100 hours of video
• 37 large-scale linear media projections 
• 26 small-format films
• 18 mixed-media story niches 
• 19 digital interactive elements 
• Seven theatres for film, live theatre and dance
• Four documentary films
• Two soundscapes 
• One temporary exhibit space
• One reference centre and a library and archives