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Museums and galleries in Winnipeg

19 museums and galleries in Winnipeg, from the big collections to small independent spaces.

Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first.

Museums and galleries in Winnipeg

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    Airforce Heritage Museum and Air Park

    Enjoy the largest air park in Canada, where many historic aircraft are mounted throughout a grassy park, many dramatically in action poses. The nearby museum, inside nearby Canadian Forces buildings, contains many outstanding exhibits of national significance.

    Air park uncontrolled, museum by appointment onlyFree

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    Canadian Museum for Human Rights

    Musée canadien pour les droits de la personne

    The first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebration and future of human rights. Its aim is to engage Canadians and international visitors in an immersive, interactive experience that offers the inspiration and tools to make a difference in the lives of others. This is the first national museum to be built in nearly half a century, and the first outside the National Capital Region.

    Tue-Sat 10AM-5PMAdult $13.50, senior or student $10.50, youth 7-17 $6, child free; 25% discount for online advance purchase

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    Costume Museum of Canada

    This museum gallery is closed to the public, but it organizes pop-up exhibits, travelling exhibitions, heritage fashion reviews, and educational programs.

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    Dalnavert Museum

    The former home of Premier Sir Hugh John Macdonald, Dalnavert has been designated a National Historic Site.

    Wed–Fri 11AM–4PM (Jul–Aug: 10AM–5PM), Sat 11AM–6PM, Sun noon–4PM

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    Fire Fighters Museum of Winnipeg

    This beautifully maintained fire hall built in 1903 features stained glass windows and displays hand and horse-drawn, steam and early motorized fire apparatus, artifacts, photographs and records dating back to the 1880s.

    Sun 9AM–2PM

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    Fort Gibraltar

    Living history museum, educational guided tours about the fur trade era and costumed interpreters reliving life in 1815. During February, it is at the heart of the Festival du Voyageur.

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    Gallery Lacosse

    Celebrating Manitoba art and its unique place in the Canadian creative landscape. Artists are showcased through their paintings, pottery, photos and jewellery.

    Tue–Fri 11AM–6PM, Sat 11AM–5PM

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    Graffiti Gallery

    Part of Graffiti Art Programming Inc, a not-for-profit youth art organization that uses art as a tool for community development, social change and individual growth.

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    Manitoba Children's Museum

    The Manitoba Children’s Museum is home to several hands-on galleries, offering plenty of family fun. Be a TV anchor, visit the land of fairy tales or climb aboard a fully refurbished locomotive and passenger train car. In November and December, you can take a magical stroll through the Santa Village and perhaps even meet the man in the red suit himself.

    Summer (Jul & Aug): 9:30AM–6PM; winter: Sun–Thu 9:30AM–4:30PM, Fri Sat 9:30AM–6PM$6.25–7 (senior, adult and group discounts available)

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    Manitoba Electrical Museum

    A small but interesting museum, very kid friendly. Features electric street car, robot made of household electronics and consumer products through the ages.

    Tue-Sat 1–4PMFree

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    Manitoba Museum

    You can explore a vivid portrayal of Manitoba’s rich and colourful history through nine galleries that total approximately 68,000 square feet of exciting exploration (approximately 4 football fields). All regions of Manitoba are represented in the galleries, including the Grasslands, the Boreal Forest, the Arctic/Subarctic, the Hudson Bay Company Collections Gallery and the Parklands/Mixed Woods Gallery, which is the largest and most interactive of the galleries, and moving dinosaurs. Frequent shows in the Planetarium.

    Summer (mid May–early Sep): 10AM–5PM; winter: museum Thu-Sun 11AM–5PM, Planetarium Sat Sun 11AM–5PMMuseum: adult $15, senior $13, youth 3-17 $9; planetarium: $6-8

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    PLATFORM: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts

    Manitoba's only artist-run centre devoted exclusively to photographic and digital arts. The gallery exhibits local, national and international artists.

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    Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art

    Manitoba's premier contemporary art gallery and the first Institute of Contemporary Art in Canada.

    Wed–Sat noon–9PM, Sun noon–5PMFree

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    Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada

    formerly Western Canada Aviation Museum

    The museum has a collection of 22 aircraft used in Canada and displays of artifacts with a focus on Indigenous aviation history.

    10AM–5PMAdults $16, seniors (65+) & students(13-17) $13, youth(3-12) $9.50

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    The Royal Canadian Mint

    The Royal Canadian Mint’s facility in Winnipeg, designed by local architect Etienne Gaboury, produces billions of coins each year. This is where all Canadian circulation coins are made, as well as those for more than 60 governments all around the world. A fascinating guided tour includes the viewing of a 5-minute video in the theatre area followed by a 40-minute walking tour overlooking the state-of-the-art manufacturing facility where the precise art, craft, and science of coin-making is revealed. Open year-round, the on-site Boutique offers beautiful collector coins, an exclusive line of Royal Canadian Mint clothing, and an exciting collection of souvenirs and gift ideas. The adjacent interactive coin museum involves the visitor in unique learning activities including the ability to make your own souvenir coin and the opportunity to lift and hold a 99.99% pure gold bar worth over $200,000.

    Offering virtual tours on Tue-Sat$10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $6.50 for students (5-17)

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    Winnipeg Art Gallery

    The Winnipeg Art Gallery is Western Canada's oldest gallery, and features Manitoban, Canadian, and international artists and a large collection of Inuit Art. With its striking architecture, it is an integral part of downtown Winnipeg.

    Tue-Sun 11AM–5PM except Fri 11AM–9PMAdults $12, students/seniors $10, youth (ages 6–12) $6

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    Winnipeg Railway Museum

    A wonderful collection of actual locomotives and rolling stock from over a century of railway in Winnipeg. Includes the "Countess of Dufferin", an 1872 steam 4-4-0 locomotive, plus two others with steam, three with diesel, and an electric locomotive. Also has 11 boxcars, baggage cars, cabooses, snowploughs, and maintenance cars.

    Daily 11AM–4PM (winter), longer hours in summer. Temporary closed for renovation$7 adults, $6 seniors and older students, $5 children

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    Winnipeg Folk Festival

    Folk Fest

    One of North America's premier outdoor music festivals. Features music performances, a folk school, programs for young performers and young visual artists, over 100 artisans, children’s programming, a visual art exhibition, and a food village that encourages the use of local, organic and fair trade ingredients.

    Jul

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    Red River Exhibition

    The Ex

    The largest annual fair in Manitoba.

    Late Jun

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Winnipeg (CC BY-SA 4.0).