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Winnipeg, Manitoba – May 23, 2023 – Opening on May 26, the first day of Pride 2023, If These Walls Could Talk: 50 Years of 2SLGBTQ+ Activism in Winnipeg, explores the issues addressed by the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Winnipeg after the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1969. If these Walls Could Talk provides visitors the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of different types of activism used to advance and ...
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Winnipeg, Manitoba: March 24, 2023 – The Manitoba Museum will honour three prominent Manitobans at its annual Tribute Gala on Thursday, April 27, 2023. Community leaders Stella and Edward Kennedy, long-time volunteer Nadia Thompson, and University of Winnipeg Chancellor Barb Gamey will share the honours at the gala event with proceeds supporting the Manitoba Museum’s Access for All community initiative. This year the gala will celebrate a multitude of viewpoints and experiences through the ...
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Death and decay in the Pennsylvanian. A doomed cluster of the sea anemone Essexella is inundated by an underwater sediment avalanche, which kills and buries them. A previously killed anemone lies rotting on the sea floor, while the jellyfish Anthracomedusa and Octomedusa, soon to also be buried, swim above. Artwork by Julius Csotonyi. (Winnipeg, Manitoba: March 9, 2023) – When you think of the Manitoba Museum, perhaps you ...
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(Winnipeg, MB: February 15, 2023) – The Shoe Project is taking to the stage for the first time in Winnipeg on March 11 and 12, 2023, at the Manitoba Museum. This inspiring event features personal stories written and performed by newcomer women living in Winnipeg. The Shoe Project reveals how footwear – whether selected by choice or imposed in difficult circumstances – can make or break a journey, shape ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The moustached longfin (Plesiops mystaxus Mooi), a species of fish found in the western Indian Ocean that was first described by Manitoba Museum researchers. © R. Henderson By Randall Mooi, PhD, Curator of Zoology, Manitoba Museum During the current pandemic, we have all become used to the idea of virtual connections and well aware of opportunities to serve communities at home and even around the world. This ...
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“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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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[Image: Prokhor Minina/Unsplash] August brings with it hot summer days, earlier sunsets, and the annual Perseid meteor shower. Here’s how you can get the best view of the shooting stars this season. TL;DR: Best views for Manitobans will occur between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, August 13th, or the mornings immediately before or after that date. Go somewhere where you can see the stars, ...
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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, ...
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