Halifax monument to the ‘none is too many’ vessel looking for new home

More on the Libeskind Wheel of Conscience, ironically a refugee given the Canadian Museum of Immigration doesn’t want it:

But both [Museum CEO Marie] Chapman and Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said that despite the Libeskind design being chosen democratically by a selection committee, the museum location might never have been ideal.

They note the original space chosen to display it meant the back part of the monument — where the names of ship passengers are inscribed — was inaccessible to the public, that it has needed repairs more than once and that it had to be unplugged when it started producing a foul-smelling black substance.

“Where the process failed was in ensuring that some feasibility study was done about this kind of an exhibit, given the parameters or the constraints of the geographic location that it was proposed for,” Fogel said.

Fogel said possible locations include the newly opened Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg and the site of the future National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa.

Builder Darius Mosun, who said his company wants to be left out of the controversy, confirmed Monday the monument has been “continuously running up until now with no problems whatsoever” since it was repaired this summer and added that no one has come to inspect it.

Halifax monument to the ‘none is too many’ vessel looking for new home | Toronto Star.