Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Winnipeg
Housed in a stunning contemporary building designed by American architect Antoine Predock, this terrific museum explores human rights issues as they…
Must-see attractions in Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Nature trips through the subarctic, history trips into 1920s Winnipeg, cultural journeys covering the past 12,000 years – if it happened in Manitoba, it's…
Winnipeg
White snow leopards, white Bengal tigers and polar bears are some of the 2000-plus animals seen close-up at Assiniboine Park Zoo, which specializes in…
Winnipeg
A mid-19th-century convent is Winnipeg's oldest building and the largest oak-log construction on the continent. The museum inside focuses on the…
Winnipeg
Smack in the middle of southern Manitoba's wetlands, this watery home and migratory stopping point for hundreds of thousands of birds is one of the best…
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Winnipeg
This ship-shaped gallery displays contemporary Manitoban and Canadian artists, and has the world's largest collection of Inuit carvings (at the time of…
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg's emerald jewel, this 4.5-sq-km urban park is easily worth at least a half-day's frolic. Besides the top-notch zoo, there are playgrounds,…
Winnipeg
In a beautiful riverside setting, modern amenities for performances and interpretive exhibits in this park outline the area's history as the meeting place…
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Winnipeg
Designed during Winnipeg's optimistic boom of the early 20th century, this 1920 building flaunts neoclassical beaux-arts design, limestone construction…
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Upper Fort Garry Heritage Provincial Park
Winnipeg
Original 1830s oak, stone and mortar walls stand where four different forts have stood since 1738. The entire site – known as Winnipeg's birthplace and…
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg's imposing and underused Union Station (opened in 1911 and designed by the same firm that did New York's Grand Central Terminal) houses a…
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Winnipeg
Huge stone walls on the banks of the Red River bank surround the only stone fort still intact from the fur-trading days. The walls are surprisingly low,…
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Winnipeg
This park protects 12 hectares of original, unplowed and now-scarce, tall prairie grass. A self-guided walk from the nature center showcases the prairie…
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Riel House National Historic Site
Winnipeg
After Louis Riel's 1885 execution for treason, his body was brought to his family home before being buried in St-Boniface Basilica. Riel grew up on this…
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Winnipeg
Though the basilica was mostly destroyed by fire in 1968, the original white-stone facade still stands as a 100-year, imposing reminder of the building…
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Winnipeg
A vast, trail-laced natural site with an eco-focus; here you can spot bison, deer and other wildlife. Learn about sod houses and rent seasonal activity…
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Winnipeg
Behind wooden walls sits this recreated fur-trade fort. Along with inspired interpreters, the genuine clothes, tools, furs, bunks, and bannock and…
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Winnipeg
Producing loonies to the tune of billions of dollars, this high-tech mint produces money for Canada and 60 other nations. Tour the pyramid-shaped glass…
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Winnipeg
Kids learn by doing at Manitoba Children's Museum, where 'hands off' is not part of the program. The colorful, high-tech, interactive exhibits encourage…
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Winnipeg
Aims to redirect young artists away from vandalism toward the creation of sanctioned public art, and stages exhibitions ranging from sculpture and…
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Winnipeg
For old-fashioned thrills, Tinkertown Family Fun Park has rides and games in a carnival setting. Play mini-golf and then have a miniature doughnut.
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Winnipeg
The small log cabin where William Ross ran the west's first post office is in a pretty setting and documents pioneer life in the 1850s.
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Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Winnipeg
Artist-run gallery displaying contemporary Canadian First Nations art, from Cree and Ojibway paintings to installations.
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Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
Winnipeg
Contemporary art rules at this gallery, with changing exhibitions from local and international artists.
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Winnipeg
Hypermodernist stage for live performances that looks remarkably like a Borg cube from Star Trek.
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