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Jun. 20 10:00 am – Jun. 20 4:00 pm

The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act

The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act takes an unflinching look at Canada’s exclusion years, with a focus on the human impact and personal cost this law inflicted on Chinese people in Canada.
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Jun. 20

Summer Membership Sale

Make the most of summer with everything the Manitoba Museum has to offer – and keep exploring all year long! Purchase a new Membership or renew an existing one between June 19 and September 7 to save 15% and receive an extra month for FREE!
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Planetarium Show
Jun. 19 3:00 pm – Jun. 19 3:45 pm

Wilfred Buck's STAR STORIES – Planetarium Show

Embark on a journey through the stars with Indigenous astronomer Wilfred Buck as he shares tellings of the night sky handed down by Ininew (Cree) elders over the generations.

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Museum Galleries

Every path through our nine immersive Museum Galleries is an adventure waiting to unfold.

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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Curator Conversations
Sep. 22 2:30 pm – Sep. 22 3:30 pm

Curator Conversations – The Cold Cold War: Fort Churchill and the Red Scare

Join us in person as our passionate curators share fascinating insights into the realms of palaeontology, astronomy, botany, history, and zoology. Each session offers a rare opportunity to explore the science, history, and intrigue behind the Museum’s collections and research.
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Curator Conversations
Oct. 27 2:30 pm – Oct. 27 3:30 pm

Curator Conversations – The What, How, and Why of the Museum Animal Collections

Join us in person as our passionate curators share fascinating insights into the realms of palaeontology, astronomy, botany, history, and zoology. Each session offers a rare opportunity to explore the science, history, and intrigue behind the Museum’s collections and research.

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During field work last year, our palaeontology field team uncovered a huge block of ancient sea floor, teaming with fossil lifeforms situated along the remote shores of Lake Winnipeg! Getting it back to the Museum involved making a plaster cast and enlisting the help of a helicopter to move it.

In this video, watch as Dr. Joe Moysiuk, Curator of Palaeontology and Geology, and Urgon Snider, Manitoba Museum Student Associate and Mitacs Fellow, remove the plaster cast to get their first good look at these amazing fossils since last fall.

We are grateful for the partnership of the communities and members of Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation, Fisher River Cree Nation, and McBeth Fisheries that facilitated the collecting of these fossils.

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Every story, everyone

Our collection of blogs celebrates the many rich and vivid stories of our diverse cultures, human, and natural history, as well as the science that binds us and the universe together.

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By Dr. Randy Mooi, Curator of Zoology

June 8, 2026
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Firefly Dating Strategies |

There are few more magical or mesmerizing ways to spend a warm, humid June evening than watching fireflies as they rhythmically flash their tiny lights while they skim over a grassy field. It becomes even more romantic knowing that they are signaling in specific patterns in order to find a mate. Fireflies, sometimes called lightning bugs, are neither flies nor true bugs but, rather, are beetles rightly famous for their ability to produce their own light, called bioluminescence...

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Nonsuch Kids Art Print

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Manitoba Wildflowers Postcard
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Manitoba Tote Bag
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Nonsuch Tea - Cornelia Bean
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Museum Kids Colouring Book
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Pauingassi Collection Book

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