Manitoba Museum

Manitoba Museum
Established	1965
Location	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Type	provincial human and natural history museum
Website	www.manitobamuseum.ca/

The Manitoba Museum, previously the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature is the largest museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

The museum is the largest heritage centre in Manitoba and the world and focuses on human and natural heritage. It has planetarium shows and a Science Gallery hall. The Institute for stained glass in Canada has documented the stained glass at the Manitoba Museum. ^[1]

Collections

The Manitoba Museum is the first Canadian museum to recreate marine life as it was 450 million years ago. A virtual underwater observatory shows the Hudson’s Bay region during the Ordovician period. Manitoba is home to the giant trilobite.

The collections in the museum reflect the heritage of Manitoba. The interpretive galleries are Earth History, Arctic/Sub-Arctic, Boreal Forest, Nonsuch, Hudson's Bay Company, Parklands/Mixed Woods, Grasslands and Urban.

Together these explore the history and environment of the province from its northern Arctic coast to its southern prairie grasslands. In particular the museum is famed for its Urban Gallery, which recreates a Winnipeg street scene in the 1920s.

The full-size replica ship Nonsuch, whose voyage in 1668 led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company, is the museum's showcase piece.

A renewed Science Gallery opened in 2008 replacing the 'Touch the Universe' Gallery.

Images

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  Manitoba Museum planetarium

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  Zeiss Mark 5 Optomechanical Projector

External links

• The Manitoba Museum

Affiliations

The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.

References

1. ^ "Institute for stained glass in Canada". http://stainedglasscanada.ca/site.php?site=208/. Retrieved November 16, 2011. 

Coordinates: 49°54′00″N 97°08′12″W / 49.9°N 97.13667°W / 49.9; -97.13667