Step into the completely renewed Welcome Gallery. See the first of the Manitoba Museum’s many world-renowned dioramas, a Métis hunter on horseback with a herd of bison. This diorama dramatically introduces an important theme of the Museum: the interrelationship of human beings and the natural environment.
Contemplate the exhibit of the history of Treaties acknowledging the promises made at the time of Treaties, and demonstrating the Museum’s commitment to acknowledging the past in the present, and to active engagement with Indigenous communities.
Explore an engaging animated map detailing Manitoba’s landscapes, showing the dramatic changes of the last 18,000 years.
Discover a display case of iconic artifacts and specimens representing the Museum’s eight galleries. This case offers a preview of the visitor’s journey in the Museum, through time, and from Manitoba’s north to south.
Enjoy the Discovery Room that presents temporary exhibitions inspired by Museum collections, community collaborations, and programs.
Discovery Room
The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act is a special adaptation of the award-winning landmark exhibition that debuted at the Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver on July 1, 2023 – the 100th anniversary of the Act. It takes an unflinching look at Canada’s exclusion years when, for the first and only time in Canadian history, the country banned the entry of a single community and issued immigration cards to Chinese who were born here. The exhibition focuses on the human impact and personal cost this law inflicted on Chinese people in Canada. The displays reveal haunting stories of loss, despair and fear, as well as powerful examples of courage and perseverance.
Curated by award-winning Chinese Canadian historian Catherine Clement, The Paper Trail exhibition involved extensive crowdsourcing of private documents and stories from families across Canada, as well as hundreds of hours of painstaking research.
The Paper Trail exhibition opens May 1, 2026 in recognition of Asian Heritage Month.