Manitoba Museum
Manitoba's museum of human and natural history, with a planetarium and a full-size 17th-century ship.
The Manitoba Museum opened in 1970 as the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, part of the Centennial Centre complex built to mark the province's hundredth year. Its nine permanent galleries are arranged as walk-through environments rather than conventional display cases, taking visitors from the Arctic coast and the boreal forest through the fur trade to a reconstructed Winnipeg street of the 1920s. The collections run to more than 2.9 million objects and specimens covering geology, palaeontology, botany, zoology, archaeology and social history.
The best-known exhibit is a full-size sailing replica of the Nonsuch, the ketch whose 1668 voyage to Hudson Bay led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company; the ship was built in Devon in 1968 and now sits in a purpose-built gallery. The museum also operates a planetarium and a hands-on Science Gallery, and holds the Hudson's Bay Company Museum Collection, transferred to the museum in 1994.
Highlights
- Full-size 1968 sailing replica of the ketch Nonsuch
- Nine walk-through galleries including a 1920s Winnipeg street
- Planetarium and hands-on Science Gallery
- Hudson's Bay Company Museum Collection
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