Village News

Have you ever been asked what your all-time favourite Christmas gift was? Not necessarily from this year or last year, but the gift that you recall with greatest fondness from your past.

Much of the warmth and excitement we experience in anticipating our Christmas celebrations comes out of our Christmas traditions.

Alexandra Kroeger joined our team here at Mennonite Heritage Village in late November as our new Assistant Curator.

Village Books and Gifts, the gift shop at Mennonite Heritage Village is seeing an increase in traffic these days.

This week Mennonite Heritage Village is saying goodbye to a friend and loyal supporter. Mr. Arthur Kroeger passed away on Friday, November 13, at the age of 93.

“I guess things must be pretty quiet at the museum now” is a perspective frequently voiced by many friends of Mennonite Heritage Village at this time of year.

On October 2, 2015, Mennonite Heritage Village received the Award of Excellence in the Research and Publications category at the annual awards banquet of the Association of Manitoba Museums.

One of the strategic priorities of Mennonite Heritage Village is Education. It is important to us that our guests, regardless of age or ethnicity, learn about history, be it Mennonite history or pioneer history, when they visit our museum.

On October 15th, the staff at Mennonite Heritage Village held an event to thank the volunteers who have made much of the museum’s programming possible.

If you’re like me, the mention of a “historical atlas” likely conjures up images of very old, difficult-to-recognize, black-and-white maps bound in a nondescript soft cover.