Known today as the Manitoba Legislative Building, this neoclassical building was completed in 1920. It is the meeting place of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba,in central Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Known as the largest museum in the province, the Manitoba Museum has been the house of the province’s rich cultural heritage focusing on human and natural tradition themes. More than half a million people visit the museum annually just to see what’s new in their eight interpretative galleries, the Planetarium, the interactive Science Gallery and their series of traveling exhibits.

One of the Museum’s showcase pieces is the Nonsuch Gallery where you could board the full size replica of the 17th Century ship which sailed into the Hudson Bay in 1668-1669. The Urban Gallery would make you knowledgeable enough of how Winnipeg looks like a hundred years ago, presenting a younger version of the place. The Grasslands gallery will take you back to the days when the first permanent settlements were established in the province while the Earth History Gallery will bring you in the pre historic times where dinosaurs still exist in the province. Feast your eyes with the fossils found in Manitoba which are acknowledged as the remains of tropical life forms such as cephalopods, trilobites and corals.

Another must visit corner is the Planetarium. Its’ multi-purpose audio/visual theatre is designed to present the finest astronomical and entertainment programming for the whole family.

The museum and Planetarium has always something to offer to each and every member of the family. It puts learning to the next level. In fact, the museum has prepared new attractions. One is entitled the Robots + US, you could visit it in the Alloway Hall. Check out more than 24 fun exhibits that provide hands-on opportunities to see, touch and explore the amazing world of robots. This is a perfect opportunity to learn and marvel the science that generated our artificial friends and workers. Then, see the Planetarium show To The Moon which explores the history of lunar exploration and looks ahead to the future of humans in space.

On February 12 to April 11, there will be a traveling exhibit entitled The Beatles Backstage and Behind and Behind the Scenes which basically all about the Beatlemania. The fine art photography from the archives of CBS Television and LIFE photographer, Bill Eppridge revisits the beginnings of the magical mystery tour.

The Discovery Room exhibit Piecing Together the Past: Ancient Pottery from Manitoba offers a first-hand glimpse at how and conservators piece together ancient pottery, beginning November 12th.

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This scene was drawn into a mural which was displayed in the well known series of murals on the walls of the luxurious dining room of the Royal Alex Hotel in historic Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

Mural from the Historic Royal Alex Hotel Winnipeg CPR Canadian Pacific Railway "The" Luxury Hotel of its time in Winnipeg Canada

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The Museum of Man and Nature in Winnipeg Canada is a cornerstone of the Province of  Manitoba’s educational system.  Each year fully 90,000 Manitoba school children visit the facility for curriculum based guided as well as student and group leader led programs.  Thousands more visit the Museum of  Man and Nature in Winnipeg with their families to take part in  MuZZeum  Sleepovers , Spring Break and Summertime Day Camps and the special event programs during Halloween , Christmas and the school year Spring Break.

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WINNIPEG–It’s Canada in winter, the season when – outside, perhaps, of Québec City with its Carnival and mad Red Bull skaters – many of us wish our home and native land was shut down and moved to Mexico.

Only my wife and I are headed in the other direction. Our neighbour on the plane from Toronto greets the idea that we are traveling to Winnipeg for our anniversary for fun (we can’t even claim the recession made us do it), with incredulity. So does the famous television director and the celebrated economist and the unassuming newspaper book editor, all of whom were born and raised there.

But it is exactly because of such interesting and cultured types, and because of the pleasure I had on a previous visit to the Fort Garry Hotel, perhaps the best large hotel in the country, that we have booked our four-day trip.

Auguring well for our bit of Canadian winter madness, for 10 days preceding our departure the ‘Peg appears to stalk us: Stuart Maclean’s CBC Radio show, The Vinyl Café, plays music from The Weakerthans and the Be Good Tanyas. My daughter discovers and likes my old Crash Test Dummies CD.

An excited Canadian friend working at the BBC World Service telephones to say that Winnipeg’s Miriam Toews, author of A Complicated Kindness and now The Flying Troutmans, is headed to London.

A Toronto producer friend drops off a DVD of My Winnipeg, an extraordinary documentary portrait of the city by one of its most celebrated sons, the director Guy Maddin. Its style is Northern and wintry and it is filmed in black and white, a sideways homage to the decade of the 1930s that killed the economy and the aspirations of this city in “the heart of the heart” of the continent.

Perhaps the Depression and the Dust Bowl’s rude halting of the city’s destiny is why a touching modesty is integral to the character of the Winnipeggers we meet and all the others who were stunned that we were making the journey at all.

The effect of that sudden economic crash was that the heart of the city, the Exchange District – with its stately and handsome turn-of-the-century office blocks, their lavish cornices, sculpted bronze gates and four-storey painted advertisements fading into their exposed brick walls – was stuck in a magnificent, glorious, moment in time.

The Exchange District is the Prairie’s Titanic beached in a Manitoba graveyard, the city that had it all and was never meant to sink, but did.

It is Canada’s old soul (the Fort Garry Hotel has a ghost) – a used city as reassuring, in its peculiar way, as that slightly uncomfortable armchair from grandfather’s study. It’s unwieldy, it doesn’t match, but you’d never, ever, let go of it because it means too much.

That modesty: You realize, after a while, that it has less to do with Winnipeggers underestimating just how fascinating their city is than their knowing, in some quiet part of their being, that if they do the modern thing and share it too much, then they may well lose the conditions that make it such a singular and ultimately liveable city.

One of the striking aspects of our visit was realizing how important affordability is.

Winnipeg has a very rich and substantial cultural life – plenty of clubs, theatre, the rejuvenated Forks district, museums, and the beautiful Centennial Concert Hall, home to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

We were lucky enough to catch the last night of the New Music Festival there, and what was remarkable was just how many young people were in attendance – something I rarely see in Toronto, where tickets are three or four times the price.

Thrift is a part of the culture, which is not to say that you can’t spend money here, but that the city’s used aspect is also an invitation for fun and discovery.

At Antiques & Funk, on the same block as the dance studio where Richard Gere and J-Lo filmed Shall We Dance? my wife and I bought three vintage Hudson’s Bay coats.

And Aqua Books, on Garry St., is one of the craziest, most amusing and well-ordered second-hand bookstores I have ever frequented.

Upstairs, in what had been a Chinese restaurant (the panelling and the décor and the kitchen still there) the owner, Kelly Hughes, maintains three studios for writers-in-residence, and the old dining room, complete with stage and fainting couches, is reserved for readings. Walking tours are popular (and a good idea) in the city, and readers can pick up a brochure here for Hughes `Book Walk’ too.

Affordability, of course, is also about space, and the restaurants and hotels and occasional shops of the Exchange District have plenty of it. At Mirlycourtois, on the second floor of a Princess St. warehouse, I ate one of the best French meals I have had in Canada, and I needed to put up neither with pretentious waiters nor bad-tempered chefs working their shtick nor a rude emptying of my wallet to have it.

Sarah ordered coq au vin, a dish I am generally afraid to taste (or even make) as it reminds me of a cherished moment I had, when I was but eight, at Chez Allard, one of the most celebrated restaurants of Paris’s Left Bank, with my late father Mordecai who had started writing in that city.

So fragile, some memories are, but I tasted my wife’s rooster, and it was moist and savoury (the eponymous chef, Bernard Mirlycourtois, acquires his birds from Manitoba or, in a pinch, from Québec), its sauce dark and delicious. Perfectly cooked, just as my Northern pike in a beurre blanc with capers was.

Mirlycourtois, it turns out, moved to Winnipeg from France in his early 20s.

When I asked him why he stayed, he said “for the fishing.” Manitoba, he went on, had everything he could possibly want – good produce, great hunting and, in a couple of months, morels.

Mirlycourtois is right. At Scot McTaggart’s Fusion Grill on the Academy Rd. – near St Mary’s Academy and the architecturally striking synagogue opposite (a lot of the city’s rich cultural legacy has to do with its having had such an important Jewish population) and the many splendid mansions of Wellington Crescent on this, the Saint Boniface side of the river – we had a similarly pleasing experience also depending on locally acquired produce.

True to its name, the Grill’s menu was an inventive fusion of new Canadian, but also Manitoban, recipes.

The white truffle perogies with duck sausage in a walnut cream sauce were particularly good. Of course, reliable providers of imported foods are as important as suppliers of local ones and the Canadian East Coast oysters here, as at Mirlycourtois, were also excellent.

The other outstanding meal, of course was a lot of the reason we came: the Sunday brunch at the Fort Garry – a munificent spread of breads, meats, smoked fishes, egg dishes, fruits and desserts stretching out of the hotel’s beautiful Palm Room bar and into the lobby (a jazz duo playing from the first floor balcony) that was so lavish and generous it is best described as marvelously preposterous.

On the top floor of this independently owned railway hotel (explaining why it has such an appealing and familiar, rather than dull corporate feel) is an extraordinary hammam, a Turkish water spa, that my wife has previously tried – she insists it is one of the most remarkable spas in Canada and the United States and knows about these things – was unfortunately closed for refurbishment until March 26, when the full three-hour experience of the Ten Spa will once again be available.

Instead, I tried the Indigenous Hot Stone Massage at the Riverstone Spa, a short walk away at the Forks – so named because these rehabilitated railway lands that now include a covered market, a Children’s Museum, the Manitoba Theatre for Young People, bars, restaurants and the Inn – lie at the junction of the Rouge and Assiniboine rivers. (The Museum of Human Rights will be built close to here.)

It is also possible to rent skates, as we did, at the Mini Donuts Factory and skate along the dozen kilometres of the River Trail – less tended and popular, but arguably, now, the longest river skate in the country.

If authentic discovery, rather than easy conversation about some proven trendy destination is what you want, then here is a city that absolutely must be visited.

Noah Richler is a Toronto-based freelance writer

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The newest additions to the collection and collections of the Museum of Man and Nature in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada  are the Hudson’s Bay Gallery and the Parklands Mixed Woods Gallery,  which won the award and was named one of Canada’s top and best new attraction by none other than Where magazine.

The Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature is noted and recognized for its unique dramatic “walk through”  settings including the “Nonsuch” -  a 17′th century full size replica of the ship whose voyage in  the year of 1668 led to the formation of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the “Urban Gallery”,  which provides a trip back through time to the “roaring 20’s”  , that includes an old fashioned apothecary and a vaudeville theater.

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Test the universal laws of science and explore the wonders of technology in the Science Gallery of the Museum of Man and Nature , located in Winnipeg Canada.    The Science Gallery is interactive fun for all ages, featuring many entertaining hands on exhibits that both encourage learning and greatly enhance discovery of learning.   Among other exhibits museum visitors can ascertain what they weigh on other planets in our solar system, explore basic principles of science , and try out their talents on a “laser harp”.

New exhibits are always being added to this dynamic gallery.    Science enthusiasts can watch a tornado being formed before their eyes with the “Tornado Machine”.  experience the “illusion” of floating in space and time and learn of the latest space explorations news from the Hubble viewership station.

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Canadian Museum for Human Rights – Preparations Continue to  Official Opening

Canadian Museum For Human Rights Near It’s Goal – The donation was motivated by the Museum’s focus on educating youth to the importance of human rights. Winnipeggers should be glowing as the Museum will bring both tourism dollars to Winnipeg, and a sense of pride in providing the world …

Famous People of Manitoba » Canadian Museum of Human Rights … – “It is an honour to be part of the ground breaking for our new Canadian Museum for Human Rights” Manitoba’s Premier Gary Doer said. “We are thrilled to hae such a worthy national institution located in Manitoba , a province with a long …

Winnipeg Free Press – New donation puts museum $2 million away from fundraising goal. Geoff Kirbyson. 2/03/2009 11:43 AM | Comments (6). Print; E–mail. Enlarge Image Enlarge Image icon. The proposed Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The Canadian Museum for …

First Exhibit Canadian Museum for Human Rights – The first exhibition for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will be an exhibit which premiered at the Human Rights Day Youth Conference – which was organized by the United Nations of Canada , and held at the University of Winnipeg …

Construction of Canada's human rights museum - The Canadian Museum of Human Rights will soon begin construction and will open in 2012. It will be the largest human rights museum in the world.

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