Bring your students to the Manitoba Museum for a fun-filled day of discovery! Our engaging exhibits and expert Learning & Engagement Team make learning about culture, science, and history enjoyable and inspiring. Students will explore fascinating artifacts, participate in hands-on activities, and experience the wonders of our Planetarium.
Make the most of your visit:
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- Bundle and save! Book more than one program or visit more than one attraction on the same day and save 50 cents for each additional program or area.
- Stay all day and book a lunchroom space with us.
- When you book a Museum program, you can explore the Museum Galleries on your own for FREE as part of your visit.
Ready to book? Please fill out and submit a booking request form.
For assistance planning or booking your visit, please contact our Programs office staff at 204-988-0626 or at Programs@ManitobaMuseum.ca.
Museum Galleries
Suitable for Kindergarten to Grade 2
60 minutes
$5.25 / student
Do your students have what it takes to be a junior paleontologist? This hands-on program has students testing their knowledge as they try to identify different fossils. A drama activity helps students understand how fossils are created. Students also discover treasures during a tour of the Earth History Gallery.
Includes free self-guiding time in Museum Galleries before or after the program.
Suitable for Grades: All
Unlimited length
$4.75 / student
Journey through all nine of the Museum Galleries: Welcome, Earth History, Arctic/Sub-Arctic, Boreal Forest, Nonsuch, Hudson’s Bay Company, Parklands/Mixed Woods, Prairies, and Winnipeg.
Plan your own program and explore at your own pace.
Planetarium
Suitable for Kindergarten to Grade 4
45 minutes
$5.25 / student
Beyond the Sun is an animated planetarium show featuring the adventures of a young girl named Celeste. While Celeste is fighting off sleep in her room by reading an astronomy book, she receives an unexpected visit from Moon. Together, they will enjoy a journey through the Universe to discover planets in other solar systems.
These “exoplanets” come in many varieties: hot giants, ocean worlds, ice worlds, and super earths. Along the way we learn how astronomers can find these distant planets, using methods like watching for eclipses to measuring the colour shift as the parent star moves. Simple analogies are used throughout, to make the content accessible to younger viewers.
Rather than focusing on specific curriculum connections, Beyond the Sun uses a timely topic to introduce young viewers to the ongoing process of scientific discovery. Students see how astronomers find and study distant planets, and how basic scientific methods and topics (like light and shadow, or the Doppler effect of sound) allow us to solve complex problems (like discovering planets that are too far away to be seen even in the largest telescopes).
The importance of a planet’s conditions is related to the possibility of life, highlighting the elements a planet’s environment needs to be able to support life: liquid water, an atmosphere, and a stable temperature.
Extension: With the grounding provided by Beyond the Sun, students can join in one or many citizen science projects searching for exoplanets themselves! NASA provides several opportunities to use real images and data to look for undiscovered planets through their online portal, here. Maybe YOUR students will discover the next new planet!
Watch the show trailer here:
Suitable for Grades: K to 6
45 minutes
$5.25 / student
Did you know that not all the dinosaurs went extinct?
This fun Planetarium show explores the world of dinosaurs, from their earliest appearance on Earth right up to their descendants who are living with us in the present day. Join curious student Celeste on a whirlwind journey through time and space to explore the world of the dinosaurs. We’ll meet the first dinosaur ever, and see how dinosaurs took over the world. Along the way, Celeste (and the audience) learn about our Earth’s history and how to persevere in the face of adversity.
Watch the show trailer here:
Curriculum Target: Grade 1
Suitable for Grades K-2
45 minutes
$5.25 / student
Join renowned children’s entertainer, Fred Penner, as he explores things large and small, from the colors of the rainbow, to the reasons for the seasons. Through the use of entertaining songs and immersive environments, children are encouraged to participate while learning about the planets, constellations, meteors, the moon and more. Geared towards the youngest stargazers and scientist, In My Backyard is sure to instill a sense of wonder and exploration while encouraging children to explore their own backyards.
Curriculum Connections
Kindergarten: K-1-01, K-1-05, K-1-07, K-2-01, K-2-07
Grade 1 Science: 1-1-07, 1-1-09, 1-1-10, 1-1-14, 1-4-01, 1-4-02, 1-4-03, 1-4-06, 1-4-08, 1-4-09, 1-4-10, 1-4-13
Suitable for Grades: K to 6
45 minutes
$5.25 / student
On vacation at her grandpa’s, a little girl named Mia accidentally discovers a mysterious piece of astronomical machinery. Edmund, Mia’s eccentric uncle, tricks the girl into using the tool’s secret powers to change the world’s seasons. She quickly realizes the consequences of what they are going to do, but Edmund doesn’t want to let the plan go. Can Mia reverse her actions and return the seasons to normal?
Magic Globe is an engaging story designed to interest and challenge students from Kindergarten to Grade 6. It has a clear educational structure with all science-related topics broken down into manageable chunks and naturally woven into the storyline. It allows students to recap knowledge they already have as well as learn multiple new concepts while following the story which makes it perfect for mixed-ability audiences.
The show covers topics like motions of the Sun and Earth (including diurnal and annual motion), the reason for the seasons (including axial tilt and sun angles), animal and plant adaptation to seasonal changes, tropical vs. polar climates, and life cycles of plants and animals.
Curriculum Connections
Kindergarten: Cluster 1-Trees
Grade 1: Cluster 1-Characteristics and Needs of Living Things; Cluster 4: Daily and Seasonal Changes,
Grade 2: Cluster 1-Growth and Change In Animals,
Grade 3: Cluster 1-Growth and Change in Plants,
Grade 4: Cluster 1-Habitats and Communities,
Grade 5: Cluster 4-Weather,
Grade 6: Cluster 1-Diversity of Living Things: Cluster 4-Exploring the Solar System.
Curriculum Target Grade: 1
Suitable for Kindergarten to Grade 2
45 minutes
$5.25 / student
This fun-filled live presentation introduces young astronomers to some of the celestial wonders that can be seen up in the night sky including constellations, stars, and planets. Daily and seasonal changes of our planet Earth are demonstrated throughout the program. Students are then taken on a journey to see close-up views of some of the planets, with a few surprises along the way.
Curriculum Connections
Grade 1: Cluster 1-Characteristics and Needs of Living Things; Cluster 4: Daily and Seasonal Changes,
Science Gallery
Curriculum Target Grade: Kindergarten and Grade 1
90 minutes
$5.25 / student
Science is all around us, and we help students discover this with the exploration of things that go “POP”! Using engaging demonstrations, we will explore the science behind two everyday objects – bubbles and balloons – and get your students’ curiousity sparked with Cluster 0 scientific inquiry.
This 90-minute program includes a 30-minute demonstration and 60 minutes of self-guided time in the Science Gallery.
Curriculum Connections
Kindergarten: Cluster 0: Scientific Inquiry
Grade 1: Cluster 0: Scientific Inquiry
Suitable for Grades: All
60 minutes
$4.75 / student
Spend 60 minutes exploring interactive exhibits that cover all aspects of science. Pull your own weight on our pulley chairs. Explore physics as you test, and race your own model race cars. Marvel at the mirrors in the Matrix, and explore ecology with our award-winning Lake Winnipeg: Shared Solutions simulator, finding out how YOU can help save Lake Winnipeg.
Bundle and Save! Suggested full day experiences
Grade 1 Bundle
$14.25 per student
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- In My Backyard with Fred Penner planetarium show
- Dinosaur World
- Museum Galleries Self Guide
- Science Gallery Self-Guide (60 mins)
