“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.
What would the operations of Mennonite Heritage Village look like without volunteers? Who would make the famous MHV waffles and the white sauce that goes with them?
Over the course of four summers, Mennonite Heritage Village partnered with the University of Winnipeg on an archaeology project at the sites of the remains of two housebarns built in the 1870s in the former Mennonite village of Blumenhof, three miles north of Steinbach.
The Waldheim House is our oldest heritage building and the first one brought to this site. It was built around 1876 by Julius Dyck in the village of Waldheim, Manitoba, three miles south of Morden.
We would like to wish Jessica all the best in her future endeavours. We have appreciated the joy and energy she has brought to our team.
The traditional layout and historic buildings at Mennonite Heritage Village create a spirit of place quite unlike any other.
