Place your bids at the inaugural Manitoba Children’s Museum Online Auction!
Visit our Online Auction website from October 20 to November 24 to place your bids on great one-of-a-kind items and services.
All proceeds raised through this auction will benefit the Manitoba Children’s Museum.
Calling all Grandparents and GrandPass Members!
Gather up your grandkids and join us on November 23 for our special GRAND Holiday Tea sittings exclusively dedicated to grandparents and their grandchildren!
Tickets will be available November 1st at the museum or by calling 924-4000.
For more information, please click here.

Help us offer creative learning opportunities to children!
The Free Access Program brings children from the inner city to the Manitoba Children’s Museum for school visits, day camps, holiday parties and after-school clubs FREE OF CHARGE!
For the entire month of November, you can support the Manitoba Children’s Museum’s Free Access Program by donating $2.00 or more when you visit the museum.

Pssssst…I have some special news to share!
Catch me and my friend Brienne Santos (our Program Coordinator) on CityTV’s Breakfast Television tomorrow morning (Wednesday, October 21st) at 8:45AM.
We’ll be there to talk to Jon Ljungberg about our Halloween Howl event that’s happening this Friday and Saturday night from 6-9PM.
- ChooChoo, MCM’s Resident Mascot
PS. You might even get to see a special sneak peek of me in my special mummy Halloween costume, which was made by local seamstress Tracy Postoluk. It’s seriously great and I can hardly wait to show it off!!!



On Thursday, November 12th the Manitoba Children’s Museum will be partnering with Canada Post to host close to 90 children from Dufferin and Pinkham Schools at the museum to kick-off the 2009 Canada Post Letter Writing to Santa Campaign and to preview Eaton’s Santa’s Village.
After an introduction by Chief Postal Elf Clare Mills, these students will be able to meet special guests Santa & Mrs. Claus, to write their holiday letters, and to explore Santa’s Village.
Eaton’s Santa’s Village officially opens to the public on Saturday, November 14th, and visitors can drop off their holiday letters to Santa at the special Canada Post North Pole mailbox located at the museum throughout the holiday season.
For more information, please click here.
- ChooChoo, MCM’s Resident Mascot
Ancient Egypt: Search for the Mummy’s Treasure
Dates: Friday, October 23 & Saturday, October 24, 2009
Attention all adventure seekers! Grab your treasure map and join us as we travel back in time on the Ancient Egypt Express and explore another time and place at the 14th Annual Halloween Howl sponsored by the Great-West Life Assurance Company! Follow the clues and uncover the mysteries of the ancients as you search for the Mummy’s Treasure!
Click here for more information on this family friendly HOWL-oween event!
On October 10 from 11:00AM to 3:00PM, join us for free Pow Wow 101 teaser performances and activities from the Manito Ahbee Festival!
Sample activities include:
- Pow Wow demonstration with Coco Ray Stevenson
- Hoop Dance demonstration with Jackson Beardy
- Children jiggers will perform and teach other children to jig
- Story time with Mary Black, who will read from The Seven Teachings book
- Arts and Crafts with Blaine Harris, who will teach children how to make petroforms
For more information about this event or about the Manito Ahbee Festival, please click here.
The Manitoba Children’s Museum will be open on Remembrance Day (Wednesday, November 11) from 1:00PM - 4:30PM.

The Manitoba Children’s Museum will be open on Thanksgiving Day (Monday, October 12) from 9:30AM - 4:30PM.

Join us on Monday, October 26 for our very special Mini Monday FALL PARTY and experience the wonder of autumn!
Ronald McDonald will be here to tell us stories, show us magic tricks and much, much more!
AMP Diapers will also be here to teach children (and their parents!) how to use cloth diapers.
The Mini Monday Fall Party is generously sponsored by:
