The Manitoba Museum

The Manitoba Museum is the province's largest attraction, hosting more than 300,000 visitors annually. The Museum features an ever-changing variety of touring and specialty exhibits, as well as nine permanent galleries that span the length of four football fields.

The Manitoba Museum is noted for its dramatic walk-through settings, including The Nonsuch, a 17th century full-size replica ship that visitors can board, and the Urban Gallery, a trip back through time to boomtown Winnipeg in the roaring 20's.

All regions of Manitoba are represented in the galleries, including the Grasslands, Parklands, the Boreal Forest, and the Arctic/Sub arctic, where a magnificent polar bear waits under the Northern Lights for daylight to break. The newest attraction is Ancient Seas, an animated undersea observatory that takes visitors back 450 million years, to when Churchill was blanketed by a tropical sea.

Planetarium and Science Gallery

The Planetarium features live multimedia shows that re-create the current night sky, highlight the latest space discoveries, and follow the developments of the space program. From animated children's shows to informative programs that delve a bit deeper, the Planetarium introduces the wonders of the universe to sky watchers of all ages.

The Science Gallery is interactive fun for all ages featuring fun, hands-on exhibits that encourage learning and discovery.

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For that special gift or souvenir, you can visit our Museum Shop, which has a wide variety of unique treasures handcrafted by Manitoba artists.

The Manitoba Museum specializes in customized group tours. To book a group tour, please contact Liette Robert toll-free at 1-888-231-9739, or by email at Lrobert@manitobamuseum.ca.

For general information, call (204) 956-2830 or go to our website at www.manitobamuseum.ca. The Museum is located at 190 Rupert Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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Ancient Seas

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Ancient Seas transports you back in time to an era when Churchill was covered by an Ordovician Sea, teeming with ancient marine creatures.

Projected in dramatic three-screen animation, Ancient Seas is the harbinger of a new age for the Museum. We are the first museum in Canada to feature this cutting-edge technology!

Tank-like trilobites appear to crawl towards you. Giant cephalopods stalk their prey. Ancient eurypterids (sea scorpions) swim across the screens, which depict a tropical climate near Churchill 450 million years ago. The scene itself is based on an ancient rocky shoreline that is still visible just east of Churchill.

Produced by an Australian production company, the animation is projected on three enormous screens spanning 7.5 meters. It will be the central display in the Ordovician section of the Earth History Gallery, and will be accompanied by display cases of actual fossils of the creatures shown in the animation.

“Everything in this video can be found in the rocks of this age in northern Manitoba. We have fossil seaweeds that are based on ones we find in rocks on the west side of Lake Winnipeg. We have trilobites from the ancient rocky shoreline at Churchill. We have cephalopods in the rocks in the Churchill area. We have jellyfish in the Grand Rapids Uplands,” says Young.

The curator spent more than a year consulting with the animators from Australia, experts from the Royal Ontario Museum, and universities and museums in Manitoba, Saskatoon, Ohio, Leicester (UK), Uppsala (Sweden), Berlin, and Russia. “We’ve been able to use our primary research to develop a very exciting piece for our visitors.”

Ends December 8, 2012

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