Must-see attractions in Manitoba

  • This is an image of The Canadian Museum For Human Rights. The Museum is located at The Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and is now open to the public.

    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…

  • The Eskimo Museum in Churchill, Canada. The town is known as the .Polar Bear capital of the world.

    Itsanitaq Museum

    Churchill

    This one-room museum showcases an exceptional collection of Inuit carvings made of whalebone, soapstone and caribou antler, as well as millennia-old…

  • Winnipeg Art Gallery

    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…

  • Tyrannosaurus rex (T.rex) was a huge dinosaur (up to 40 feet or 12 metres long, 12 feet or four metres tall) that lived throughout what is now western North America approximately 65 million years ago. This animated display at the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg, Canada, features replicas that move and appear to breathe. The head is slightly blurred because of its movement.

    Manitoba Museum

    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…

  • My mom and I had a great time watching the 7 polar bears at our new "Journey to Churchill" area at the Assiniboine Zoo. This was taken in one of the underwater tunnels. Kaska, the polar bear, is happily swimming around showing off her acrobatic moves and catching fish.

    Assiniboine Park Zoo

    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…

  • Saint Boniface Museum, the former Grey Nuns Convent, St. Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    St-Boniface Museum

    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…

  • Wildlife viewing blind, Oak Hammock Marsh, Manitoba, Canada

    Oak Hammock Marsh

    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…

  • Cape Merry

    Churchill

    A lone cannon behind a crumbling wall is all that's left of the battery built at Cape Merry, 2km northwest of town. It's an incredibly beautiful location…

  • Assiniboine Park

    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,…

  • The Forks National Historic Site and the red river, winnipeg, manitoba, Canada.

    Forks National Historic Site

    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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    Riding Mountain National Park

    Manitoba

    The dense forest and numerous lakes of this vast national park attract hikers, cyclists and wilderness enthusiasts. Using Wasagaming as a base, you can go…

  • Manitoba Legislative Building

    Winnipeg

    Designed during Winnipeg's optimistic boom of the early 20th century, this 1920 building flaunts neoclassical beaux-arts design, limestone construction…

  • Wapusk National Park

    Churchill

    Established primarily to protect polar bear maternity denning sites (wapusk is Cree for 'white bear') and critical habitats for waterfowl and shore birds,…

  • 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…

  • New Iceland Heritage Museum

    Manitoba

    This small, lovingly put together museum tells the story of intrepid Icelanders who settled an unlikely part of Canada in 1875 after fleeing hardships in…

  • Winnipeg Railway Museum

    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…

  • Lower Fort Garry

    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,…

  • Hecla Heritage Historic Village

    Manitoba

    Picturesque Hecla Village has been a lived-in Icelandic settlement since 1876. You can go on a 1km self-guided tour of the old lakefront buildings, most…

  • Polar Bear Jail

    Churchill

    Located in a former aircraft hangar near the airport, this secure facility serves as holding center for problem polar bears who repeatedly turn up in…

  • Grassy Narrows Marsh

    Manitoba

    Near the entrance to the park, this channel between Hecla Island and the mainland is one of Manitoba's most important marshes and a major nesting site for…

  • Spruce Woods Provincial Park

    Manitoba

    Un-Manitoban shifting sand dunes in this 270-sq-km park provide a home for unlikely cacti and creatures, including Manitoba's only lizard: the 20cm-long…

  • York Factory National Historic Site

    Churchill

    Around 250km southeast of Churchill and impossibly remote, this HBC trading post, near Hayes River, was an important gateway to the interior and active…

  • Fort Gibraltar

    Winnipeg

    Behind wooden walls sits this recreated fur-trade fort. Along with inspired interpreters, the genuine clothes, tools, furs, bunks, and bannock and…

  • Royal Canadian Mint

    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…

  • Manitoba Children's Museum

    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…

  • International Peace Garden

    Manitoba

    The setting – a very quiet B-level Manitoba–North Dakota border crossing – is certainly appropriate for this cross-border garden, which honors the…

  • Royal Canadian Artillery Museum

    Manitoba

    On CFB Shilo, an active military base a 15-minute drive east of Brandon, the Royal Canadian Artillery Museum displays uniforms, guns, ammunition and 60…

  • Fort Churchill

    Churchill

    Amid the undulating rocks, late-season ice and scraggy, stunted trees looms a Cold War relic. Just north of the airport, Fort Churchill was Canada's Cape…

  • Living Prairie Museum

    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…

  • 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…

  • Parks Canada Museum

    Churchill

    There's a small museum and nature center in the train station along with the Parks Canada info desk. It has a good model of the fort and excellent nature…

  • St-Boniface Basilica

    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…

  • FortWhyte Alive

    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…

  • Miss Piggy

    Churchill

    Out toward the airport lies the wreck of a Curtiss C-46 freight plane that crashed here in 1979 after developing engine trouble, but without a single…

  • Grand Beach Provincial Park

    Manitoba

    There is hiking in Grand Beach Provincial Park, where hundreds of species of birds use the lagoon behind the beach and the nearby dunes reach 12m. It's…

  • HP Tergesen & Sons

    Manitoba

    Worth visiting simply for its creaky-floored history, HP Tergesen & Sons is a busy store that's been in continuous operation since 1899. Look out for the…

  • Graffiti Gallery

    Winnipeg

    Aims to redirect young artists away from vandalism toward the creation of sanctioned public art, and stages exhibitions ranging from sculpture and…

  • Whiteshell Provincial Park

    Manitoba

    This park is popular with weekenders from Winnipeg and there's good hiking to be done along the forested trails. The lakes offer plenty of scope for…