Village News

The last “festival” event of our 2016 season has now taken place at Mennonite Heritage Village.

This week a couple of my online news feeds informed me that the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre has been appointed to the province’s Signature Museums Program.

This summer we were pleased to accept into our collection three models built by Harold Fast.

On August 9 we celebrated the opening of our latest exhibit in the Gerhard Ens Gallery. Along the Road to Freedom is a collection of 26 paintings created by artist Ray Dirks, who is also the Curator at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery in Winnipeg.

Last weekend my family held our twenty-ninth annual family gathering at Clear Lake, in Manitoba’s Riding Mountain National Park.

As you may be aware, Mennonite Heritage Village is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Manitoba by concentrating on Mennonite women both, in our exhibits and in our interpretation of the Village.

Pioneer Days is one of Steinbach’s signature summer festivals and the climax of our summer season at Mennonite Heritage Village.

This year’s first session of Pioneer Day Camp at Mennonite Heritage Village was a great success! The camp ran July 11-15 for 5 to 8-year-olds.

It is not uncommon to be asked, “Who owns Mennonite Heritage Village?” This is a reasonable question, in light of the size and complexity of our museum and the fact that museums are often owned by municipal governments.

We are grateful for the many generous financial donations we have been receiving recently. This week one of those gifts was accompanied by a card in which the donor expressed gratitude for the work we do at Mennonite Heritage Village and specifically reminded us not to forget the faith of our forebears.