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Manitoba Museum

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About

Manitoba Museum is a human and natural history museum in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, exploring the province’s heritage, culture and environment.

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Manitoba Museum — Museum dome and entrance seen from the front stepsManitoba Museum — Close view of the museum's blue-green domed roofManitoba Museum — Manitoba Museum and Planetarium building on a city cornerManitoba Museum — Interactive exhibits in the Science GalleryManitoba Museum — Cariboo diorama depicting wildlife among rocks and treesManitoba Museum — Moose and calf displayed in a natural habitat dioramaManitoba Museum — Glyptodon fossil reconstruction displayed in a museum galleryManitoba Museum — Butterfly specimens arranged in a framed collectionManitoba Museum — Historical settlement diorama with figures, animals, and treesManitoba Museum — Small figures recreating a scene in a landscape dioramaManitoba Museum — Replica ship displayed inside the museum's maritime gallery

Why go

  • One of the world’s largest fur trade collections, the permanent Hudson’s Bay Company Museum Collection.
  • More than two billion years of Manitoba geology in the Earth History Gallery, through fossils, minerals, rocks and immersive exhibits.
  • Parklands / Mixed-Woods Gallery, the museum’s largest and most interactive gallery.

Opening hours

Today10:00 – 16:00Show all
MondayClosed
Tuesday10:00 – 16:00
Wednesday10:00 – 16:00
Thursday10:00 – 16:00
Friday10:00 – 16:00
Saturday10:00 – 16:00
Sunday10:00 – 16:00

Don't miss

  • Nonsuch replicaThe full-size replica represents the ship whose 1668 voyage led to the Hudson’s Bay Company’s founding. Built in England in 1968, it sailed 14,000 kilometres to the museum in 1974. The gallery recreates a 1669 wharf at Deptford, England.Nonsuch Gallery
  • Buffalo hunt dioramaA 15.5-metre scene shows a Métis hunter on horseback pursuing bison.
  • Ancient Seas projectionAn immersive projection depicts the warm, shallow sea that covered Manitoba about 450 million years ago.Earth History Gallery
  • Polar bear dioramaA polar bear feeds on a ringed seal beneath the aurora in a Hudson Bay coast scene.Arctic and Subarctic Gallery

Know before you go

  • Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00–16:00.

What's inside

  • The galleries represent every region of Manitoba.
  • About half of the Hudson’s Bay Company collection came from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities through purchases, trade, gifts and donations.
  • Cretaceous displays include a large pliosaur from the Manitoba Escarpment, a mosasaur and other marine reptiles.
  • The Prairies Gallery includes prairie wildlife, a full-size tipi, a Red River cabin and cart, and a reconstructed schoolroom.
  • The Subarctic section shows caribou migrating into boreal forest and seasonal traditions of Kivallirmiut and Denesułine.
  • The Manitoba Planetarium and Science Gallery are on the lower level. The Science Gallery has hands-on science and technology exhibits.

With kids

  • Watch a family full-dome planetarium show, often with a live segment before or after the film.
  • See the museum’s moving dinosaurs.

Tips for your visit

  • In Parklands / Mixed-Woods, look upstairs for ecology and downstairs for human history.
  • On the lower level, look for the Métis kitchen, limestone cave with bat models and archaeological material spanning about 11,000 years.

Interesting facts3

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  1. 2.9 million

    The museum cares for more than 2.9 million artifacts and natural history specimens across nine interpretive galleries.

    Manitoba Museum - Wikipedia

  2. The Manitoba Planetarium retains its original Zeiss optical-mechanical star projector, nicknamed Marvin.

    Manitoba Museum - Wikipedia (part 3)
  3. 5 all

    The Manitoba Planetarium was the first in Canada to offer Digistar 5 all-dome digital projection.

    Manitoba Museum - Wikipedia (part 3)

Shorts

History

The museum shared the Civic Auditorium with the Winnipeg Art Gallery until 1967.

  1. 1879The Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba began collecting and preserving the province’s heritage.
  2. 1932The Manitoba Museum Association was founded by three local organizations. The museum opened on 15 December in Winnipeg’s Civic Auditorium.
  3. 1968The Manitoba Planetarium opened.
  4. 15 July 1970Queen Elizabeth II opened the museum’s first galleries, Orientation and Grasslands.
  5. July 1972The museum and planetarium became one organization.
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  1. 1973–1974The Earth History Gallery opened in 1973, followed by the Urban Gallery in 1974.
  2. 1994The Hudson’s Bay Company transferred its historic collection and funds for its care to the museum.
  3. 1995Alloway Hall was added for travelling exhibitions.
  4. 1998A new east wing opened for the Hudson’s Bay Company collection and research facilities.
  5. 2000The Hudson’s Bay Company Gallery opened to the public on 2 May.
  6. 2008The Science Gallery opened, replacing Touch the Universe.
  7. 2017–2021Renewal work expanded Alloway Hall and refreshed galleries and visitor facilities.

How to get there

  • On foot190 Rupert Avenue, Winnipeg, beside Steinkopf Gardens.
  • On footThe museum is part of the Manitoba Centennial Centre. Pedestrian and below-ground links connect its facilities; the lower level houses the planetarium and Science Gallery and connects to the concert hall and underground parking.

Sources: Manitoba Museum - Wikipedia · Manitoba Museum - Wikipedia (part 2) · Manitoba Museum - Wikipedia (part 3) · Winnipeg - Wikivoyage (see) · checked 29 Sep 2026

Where
190 Rupert Ave, Winnipeg

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Questions and answers

Who created Manitoba Museum’s buffalo hunt diorama?

Clarence Tillenius created it between 1963 and 1970, after more than five years of research and painting.

What treaty-related objects are exhibited at Manitoba Museum?

Treaty medals, ceremonial pipes and pipe bags linked to the Numbered Treaties.

What historic Winnipeg feature can I see at Manitoba Museum?

The Winnipeg Gallery has a stained-glass Winnipeg logo that had not been seen since the 1960s.

What is Manitoba Museum’s connection to the Hudson’s Bay Company Royal Charter?

It shares responsibility for the 1670 charter with three other Canadian institutions.

How was Manitoba Museum’s Welcome Gallery renewed?

In 2021, it was renewed with Indigenous community partners while retaining one of the museum’s oldest exhibits.

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