If you’re looking for something fun and educational to do from home, you can now take virtual tours of the culture and history of our province.
The virtual tours let you safely enjoy Manitoba’s cultural and educational offerings, as doors are locked at galleries and museums to promote social distancing.
The “150 for 150 Exhibit” is an online display of 150 artifacts, designed to provide an educational experience during isolation. You can check it out by clicking here.
The Manitoba Museum recently launched another online experience that shares the captivating history of our province and the science that explains our world. You can check that out by clicking here.
If you’re more interested in art, the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is keeping you connected with a new series that shares artwork from the WAG collection every day.
The WAG website also features Do-It-Yourself videos, hands-on activities and learning opportunities for children and adults at www.wag.ca.
Other online experiences being offered right now include:
• The Manitoba Agricultural Museum helps immerse visitors in rural Manitoba’s past, providing context to the present and future of agriculture. The Austin-based museum has an online artifact collection at http://mbagmuseum.ca/collections-exhibits/artifacts-display-filtering.
• One of the online highlights of the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada are the 360-degree cockpit tours that allow the visitor to ‘sit’ in the cockpit or cargo hold of many of the museums aircraft from the comfort of home at: www.royalaviationmuseum.com/virtualcockpits/mobile/index.html.
• The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has created a new guided virtual tour, and made a number of children’s activities and other content available at ‘Explore the Museum from Home’ at https://humanrights.ca/visit/explore-the-museum-from-home along with another new feature called ‘Share Your Story’ at https://humanrights.ca/stories/share-your-story#/.
