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(Winnipeg, MB: January 26, 2023) – FROSTBYTE is a one-of-a-kind fundraising event & experience being presented by Science First in collaboration with MEMETIC to raise funds supporting the World Water Day youth conference at the Manitoba Museum on March 22. The fundraiser party will take place at the RAW:almond event space at The Forks located on the frozen Red & Assiniboine Rivers in Winnipeg on February 5, 2023. Frostbyte runs…
A crew cuts Tyndall Stone blocks out of the solid bedrock at Gillis Quarries, in Garson. Photo: Graham Young/Manitoba Museum (Winnipeg, MB: January 24, 2023) – A type of stone quarried only in Manitoba has found international recognition as a designated Global Heritage Stone Resource by the Subcommission on Heritage Stones. This designation provides recognition to dimension stones that have broad significance to humanity. Tyndall Stone is the only Canadian stone…
“The Fur Trader” by Paul Kane, (H9-39-980), Image: ©Manitoba Museum (Winnipeg, MB: November 4, 2022) – The Manitoba Museum has recently acquired an original, signed oil painting on paper by important early Canadian artist, Paul Kane. The painting, “The Fur Trader,” is a field sketch depicting Andrew McDermot, an extremely influential free trader and settler at Red River in the mid 1800s. It was painted here at the Red River…
(Winnipeg, MB: October 28, 2022) The Manitoba Museum’s Planetarium has received a national award for its highly-successful outreach program, [email protected] Each year the Canadian Association of Science Centres (CASC) recognizes the best exhibits, programs, and individuals in the Canadian science centre and museum community. In 2022, the CASCADE award for Best Program in the under $50,000 budget category was presented to the Planetarium as part of a special online awards ceremony….
(Winnipeg, MB: October 6, 2022) – Our Climate Quest: Small steps to big change, a travelling exhibition produced by Science North, will be on display at the Manitoba Museum from Friday, October 7 to Friday, November 18. Admission to the Our Climate Quest exhibition is free and visitors can attend from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesdays through Sundays. Our Climate Quest’s mission is to inspire youth across Canada to…
(Winnipeg, MB: September 26, 2022) To honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, the Manitoba Museum will provide complimentary admission to the Museum Galleries, Planetarium, and Science Gallery from Friday, September 30 to Sunday, October 2. Orange Shirt Days @ the Manitoba Museum will offer visitors special, all-day programming focused on the history and the impacts of Indian Residential Schools, as well as…
This year on Canada Day, the Manitoba Museum will be open to bring us together. By gathering, we can deepen our understanding that, as a friend recently wrote to me, “Kinship extends into the past, with ancestors, and into the future, with forthcoming generations.” I sincerely hope you spend July 1st in the spirit of care and love for one another. I hope you recognize that each of us, even…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Jody Tresoor, Manager of Marketing & Communications, 204-228-2374, [email protected] (Winnipeg, MB: May 16, 2022) Prehistory takes on 21st-century technology beginning this Saturday, May 21, when Ultimate Dinosaurs, a blockbuster exhibition featuring fully-articulated dinosaur skeletons from unusual locations in the Southern Hemisphere, opens at the Manitoba Museum. Members of the media are invited to preview ULTIMATE DINOSAURS Wednesday, May 18 • 10 am – 2 pm. Please contact…
Nick Yudell (Self-Portrait) at St. John’s Tech High School, Winnipeg, 1931 © Estate of Nick Yudell / © Celia Rabinovitch (Winnipeg, MB: March 1, 2022) Now open in the Discovery Room at the Manitoba Museum, The Lost Expressionist – Nick Yudell, A Photographer Discovered, is an exhibition of striking photographs that reveals a vibrant world in Manitoba of the 1930s. This stunning collection of images and artifacts, art directed and curated by Dr….
(Winnipeg, MB: February 3, 2022) The Manitoba Museum will honour three prominent Manitobans at its annual Tribute Gala on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Former MLA Flor Marcelino, community organizer and speaker Michael Redhead Champagne, and University of Manitoba Chancellor Anne Mahon will share the honours at the gala event with proceeds supporting the Manitoba Museum’s Access for All community initiative. Celebrating Communities, the theme for this year’s gala, will spotlight the value of…
The Manitoba Museum acknowledges we are on Treaty No.1 land, the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg and Ininíwak. These lands, water, and waterways are the unceded territories of the Dakota, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. The Museum is committed to reflecting the continued legacy of all the original peoples of this province, including the Ithiniwak, Denesułine, Anishininiwak, Inuit, and Nakota.
We acknowledge the harms of the past, are committed to improving relationships in the spirit of reconciliation, and appreciate the opportunity to live and learn on these traditional lands in mutual respect.
Manitoba Museum is accredited by Imagine Canada for excellence in non-profit accountability, transparency and governance.
