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WINNIPEG 2016-2017 | YOUR WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY 13 St. Boniface's 10-day winter festival, Festival du Voyageur, is one of the world's best winter parties featuring snow sculptures and tents full of live music, food and fabulous fashion at Fort Gibraltar. Winnipeg's Exchange District is home to North America's finest collection of turn- of-the-20th century buildings along with some of the hippest happenings in Canada. If you are visiting in summer, chances are free concerts will be a constant in the award- winning Cube stage at Old Market Square. Along its heritage designated streets you'll find great restaurants and hip coffee shops, galleries featuring works from local and international artists, along with trendy locally owned shops and boutiques. The Exchange is also where you will find The Manitoba Museum, an institution renowned for its combined human and natural heritage themes. The nine permanent galleries in this award-winning centre will enthral kids and adults alike, whether you are catching a planetarium show, or going through the Hudson's Bay Company Museum Collection – one of Canada's most important historical exhibits. Architecturally striking and centrally located in the heart of downtown, the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) houses an internationally acclaimed collection of nearly 24,000 works. The WAG is Canada's oldest civic art gallery, featuring Canadian and Manitoba-centric pieces including one of the world's largest collections of contemporary Inuit art. Winnipeg is also full of vibrant parks and ample green spaces like Kildonan Park and St. Vital Park, each of which has its own charms and flora. The largest green space is Assiniboine Park (which is one of Canada's largest urban parks), whose 1,100 acres contain breathtaking scenes like the English Garden – with its astounding array of flowers, vegetation and fountains along with the stunning Leo Mol Sculpture Garden. Inside Assiniboine Park Zoo is where you'll find the multi-award winning Journey to Churchill, the most comprehensive Arctic species exhibit of its kind in the world, and the crown jewel of Assiniboine Park Zoo. Journey to Churchill is home to nine polar bears (who tend to steal the show as audiences watch them swim and wrestle overhead in the Sea Ice Passage), wolves (who starred in The Grey with Liam Neeson), Arctic fox, snowy owls, muskox and a host of other incredible animals. The Manitoba Museum: Dan Harper Winnipeg Art Gallery: Ernest Mayer Leo Mol Sculpture Garden: William Au