One of the newest artifacts at Mennonite Heritage Village is a pair of hand-made ice skates. The skates were donated by Ken Kristjansen. It is estimated that they are more than 100 years old.
MHV has many artifacts that need varying degrees of restoration work. One that is being focused on now is a hay wagon.
The opening sentence of an article in last Saturday’s Winnipeg Free Press says, “Quietly and without notice, Dalnavert Museum was closed over the Labour Day weekend.”
In 2014 we will celebrate our 50th anniversary as a museum.
Last Sunday the MHV Auxiliary held their annual Turkey Dinner. This is always a great opportunity for us to rub shoulders with friends of the museum and introduce our facility to some newcomers.
Mennonite Heritage Village has not always highlighted its monuments as it well might have.
Since this post is being written during the Thanksgiving weekend, my thoughts are focused on those things for which I am thankful.
A new exhibit, imagined and created by the Steinbach Regional Secondary School advanced photography class, was installed in the MHV Auditorium last Friday.
The Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Association of Manitoba Museums took place in Gimli October 3-5.
Another part of my trip to Poland this last June was participation in a documentary being created by Steinbach’s Laszlo Markovics for the MTS “My Manitoba” series.
