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WINNIPEG'S WORLD-CL ASS WONDERS Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq has been featured on the cover of TIME, along with mentions in New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine and Forbes. It is home to the world's largest collection of contemporary Inuit art, featuring thousands of sculptures, stunning tapestries, bold paintings and works in a variety of mediums. The pieces are artfully displayed in Qaumajuq's galleries that celebrate the snowdrift-like Arctic landscape. The main Winnipeg Art Gallery, which is directly connected to Qaumajuq, has an incredible collection that ranges from the Renaissance to modern Manitoba, with plenty of celebrated Indigenous works too. 204.789.1765 - wag.ca Enter the 150-year-old stone gate and marvel at the "sculpture in motion" during a light and sound show on the massive, 400-foot Heritage Wall in Upper Fort Garry Provincial Park. Located in the heart of downtown between the Fort Garry Hotel and The Forks, this new park—which is located on the city's oldest site—features a kitchen garden, Governor's Garden, public art and more, while a downloadable interactive app will bring each area to life and link it to the fort's past. 204.947.9344 - upperfortgarry.com The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is an architectural marvel, looking out on downtown from The Forks with a glass cloud design that is now featured on the Canadian $10 bill. Within, group and self-guided tours bring you through galleries that climb from darkness to light, offering interactive new media displays, artifacts and stories on human rights from across the globe that will shake your foundations. Group tours—available in English, French and ASL—can be tailored to cover several themes, including Antoine Predock's daring architecture. 204.289.2238 - humanrights.ca At the Manitoba Museum, your group can explore space and time in a celebrated institution, where charming dioramas, a state-of-the-art planetarium, countless artifacts and an incredible collection of Cretaceous-era fossils—including a full juvenile pliosaur—are all on display. The new Prairies Gallery will take your eye above and below ground, while hopping aboard the legendary Nonsuch—a replica 17 th century ship that's so large the gallery was built around it—is always a must. Private group experiences and thematic tours available. 204.988.0685 - manitobamuseum.ca 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

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