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 often able to adapt the duration of their tours for visitors should you have fewer than 45 minutes to visit the museum.
NEW!!!
The Architecture of Dalnavert: A Guided tour of Domestic Victorian Design
Tours Beginning July 26
Dalnavert Museum invites visitors to explore its historic 1895 residence through the lens of architectural and social history. Designed by architect Charles Henry Wheeler for Sir Hugh John Macdonald, the house stands as one of the most sophisticated expressions of the Queen Anne Revival style in Western Canada. Through its carefully composed façades and meticulously preserved interiors, Dalnavert illustrates the architectural language of late Victorian Britain as it was adapted to an emerging Winnipeg. This guided visit situates Dalnavert within broader contexts of design, domesticity, modernity, and empire, revealing how architecture reflected and shaped the cultural aspirations of late nineteenth-century Canada.
Tour length is 60 minutes
Price: $10 general, $9 for students and seniors, free for members and Indigenous peoples
Sundays at 2:30 pm
Spinsters and Suffragists: Gender Norms and Gender Rebels in the Victorian Period
In celebration of women's history month, Spinsters and Suffragists looks at the prevailing attitudes about gender and gender roles in the Victorian era, and how women, transgender individuals, and gender non-conforming individuals rebelled against those ideas.
Tour length is 60 minutes
Price: $10 general, $9 for students and seniors, free for members and Indigenous peoples
Thursdays at 1:30 PM
Behind the ropes
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.
Events
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