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A beadwork rendition of the exterior of the Manitoba Museum, Planetarium dome, and Nonsuch ship in vibrant colours and florals. The image is on a fuchsia background, with the text, "I Belong Here" in the lower right corner.
Exhibition
Jul. 28 10:00 am – Jul. 28 4:00 pm

I Belong Here

Through digital art prints, Indigenous Scholar in Residence Lucy Lindell transforms the physical structures of Winnipeg museums and galleries into Indigenous teachings that exist to help us live a good life.
A word graphic for The Museum Collection Illuminated featuring images of a chair made out of numerous bison horns, a decorative blanket, wrapped as though being worn, and a taxidermized and mounted toucan bird.
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Jul. 29 10:00 am – Jul. 29 4:00 pm

The Museum Collection Illuminated

Explore unusual artifacts, hand-selected from our vaults for their unique qualities, including an 11lb Giant Puffball mushroom, a gloriously gaudy bison horn chair from the 1880s, a 500 BCE Archaic period wine pitcher, and more!
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Dive into an ocean of fun with family programming at the Manitoba Museum this summer! Enjoy hands-on activities and engaging programming every day throughout July & August.

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Travel through millions of years, journey from the icy arctic coast to the windswept prairies of Manitoba. Meet dinosaurs and trilobites, and climb aboard the Nonsuch, a full-sized replica 17th-century English merchant ship.
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A beadwork rendition of the exterior of the Manitoba Museum, Planetarium dome, and Nonsuch ship in vibrant colours and florals. The image is on a fuchsia background, with the text, "I Belong Here" in the lower right corner.
Exhibition
Jul. 28 10:00 am – Jul. 28 4:00 pm

I Belong Here

Through digital art prints, Indigenous Scholar in Residence Lucy Lindell transforms the physical structures of Winnipeg museums and galleries into Indigenous teachings that exist to help us live a good life.
A word graphic for The Museum Collection Illuminated featuring images of a chair made out of numerous bison horns, a decorative blanket, wrapped as though being worn, and a taxidermized and mounted toucan bird.
Exhibition
Jul. 29 10:00 am – Jul. 29 4:00 pm

The Museum Collection Illuminated

Explore unusual artifacts, hand-selected from our vaults for their unique qualities, including an 11lb Giant Puffball mushroom, a gloriously gaudy bison horn chair from the 1880s, a 500 BCE Archaic period wine pitcher, and more!

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By Sonya Hauri-Thiessen, Collections Technician – Archaeology

July 10, 2025
Three empty paper bags decorated in bright colours with cartoon characters and text reading "Wundertute / Suprise / Cospi", with a small maze game and top between then.

Surprise Bags in the Archaeology Department |

When I was younger, I loved opening surprise bags. They came with candy and a toy, and you never knew what surprises lay within. I still love surprise bags, but now I get to open a different type of surprise bag: one filled with artifacts!…
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Nonsuch Kids Art Print

A postcard featuring three rows of four wildflower watercolour illustrations accompanied by the common and scientific name of each. A title at the top reads, "Manitoba Wildflowers". At the bottom, a line reads, "From the Criddle Collection".

Manitoba Wildflowers Postcard
A cream-coloured tote bag featuring the word MANITOBA broken up along two lines, with part of the bison diorama bursting through the upper portion, and colourful beadwork visible through the lower portion.

Manitoba Tote Bag
A package of loose leaf tea with a colourful illustrated label identifying it as the Nonsuch tea, and featuring the Nonsuch ship over a yellow layer with white accent flowers.

Nonsuch Tea - Cornelia Bean
The cover of a Manitoba Museum branded colouring book with the planetarium dome and star projector bursting through the word "Colouring" and the Museum's iconic bison diorama bursting through the word "Book".

Museum Kids Colouring Book
A book cover featuring a photograph of an Anishinaabe ceremonial artifact, with the title on the lower third, "Obaawingaashing Gichi-Aabijitaawinan | Pauingassi Collection".

Pauingassi Collection Book

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