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
Explore unusual artifacts, hand-selected from our vaults by our curatorial team 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.
The Museum Collection Illuminated presents a snapshot of the diverse and extensive work undertaken throughout the Museum’s history of collecting. Research, conservation, exhibitions, and programs are featured in videos showing behind-the-scenes conservation and field work, interpretive panels, and a timeline graphic, alongside answers to frequently asked questions.
The Museum Collection Illuminated exhibition is on display in the Manitoba Museum’s Discovery Room until May 2026.