Museum Tours
GUIDED TOURS
On our guided tours one of our many experienced volunteers will take you through the house and explain the history of Dalnavert, its occupants over the years and contrast how the wealthy Macdonald family lived compared to their working-class servants.
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Dalnavert Museum and Visitors' Centre is at 61 Carlton Street. Visitors must be supervised by a staff member or volunteer while in the house.
Tour length is 45 minutes to 1 hour
Price: $6-10
Tours are offered daily Wednesday- Sunday
Guides are happy to adapt the duration of their tours for visitors.
Step into history! Our Behind the Ropes tour lets up to 3 people experience an up close and personal tour of Dalnavert from inside its many historic rooms.
Tour length is 1.5 to 2 hours
Price: $30
Sundays at 10:00 am
Unearth the history of drug use (and misuse) during the Victorian era in this speciality tour.
This compelling journey through Dalnavert will explore how scientific knowledge, technological advances, societal beliefs, and growing colonial trade routes shaped drug and medical culture in the 19th century in ways that are both familiar and strange.
Tour length is 45-60 minutes
Price: $13-15 (Free for Dalnavert Members)
Fridays and Sundays at 1:30 pm
Age Advisory: 16+
Content Warning: Includes graphic details of historic medical practices, addictions, and illnesses as well as drug use.
For people living with early to moderate symptoms of dementia and their care partners. This tour includes tea and coffee in the Visitors’ Centre afterwards.
Tour length: 1.5 hours
Price: $24 per pair
Last Saturday of every month at 10:00 am
Developed in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba
Dalnavert also offers Spanish language tours! Join Inés Bonacossa and up to 4 other people on a Spanish tour.
Tour length is 1 hour
Price: $6 - $10
Fridays or Sundays by request only. To book, please contact the museum at info@dalnavertmuseum.ca or 204-943-2835.
Walking Tours
Homeland of the Métis Nation
Step into history with the Dalnavert Museum’s Métis history walking tour! Join our guides as they take us through downtown and see fascinating glimpses into Métis history. Learn about the beginnings of the Métis Nation during early colonial period and how they led their daring resistance against the Canadian government under the leadership of Louis Riel; examine the contrasting fortunes of Settler families like the Macdonalds who prospered under Westward colonial expansion and explore how this indigenous nation fought hard for its place in Canada. Come and learn how the past remains ever present for the Manitoba Métis.
90 minutes
Saturdays at 2pm in June
Price: $15 general, $5 for members
Events
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