The St. Malo museum closed it's doors forever this spring, after the making of the film.  The collections will be dispersed back to donors this month.

‘The End of Our Memories’ shows the challenges of small-town museums

Gimli-based filmmakers Andy Blicq’s and Huw Eirung’s half-hour documentary interviews 
volunteer proprietors of small-town museums about their struggles and successes

A new film depicting the plight of small-town museums is a cautionary tale of what rural communities will lose if they’re closed, say museum advocates. These aren’t merely collections of curios, tools, books and other things donated by local pioneer families, says Monique Brandt, executive director of the Association of Manitoba Museums. They’re tangible connections

Eighty-two-year-old Thornhill farmer David Lumgair, pictured here with his farm dog Rodger, says fossil discoveries on his farm over the years have made him think about the future of life on earth too.

The farmer and the fossil

David Lumgair’s Thornhill-area farm is the site of significant fossil finds from the 
Cretaceous period including a newly identified flightless bird now named in his honour

It isn’t every day a farmer is asked if a fossil can be named after him. But that was exactly what staff from the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre were asking retired southern Manitoba farmer David Lumgair earlier this month. Paleontologists had discovered a new species from a fossil found on his farm in 1978. They


Hillcrest Museum, located next to Souris’s famous swinging bridge, resides in a stunning stone and brick 1910 building built on the banks of the Souris River and showcases 
a huge variety of local, municipal, military, school and family histories. Souris is home to three museums including ‘The Plum Heritage Church museum dating to 1883 and 
the Souris railway museum.

Who visits small-town museums?

What is the reason for your visit? Two-year BU study takes a look at traffic through small-town museums

Two thousand people passed through the doors of the 1910 castle-like Hillcrest Museum in Souris this summer. That’s a lot visitors for a museum its size, says Keven Bowie, treasurer at the museum. “We were quite amazed at the traffic,” he said. “We were only open during July and August, mainly.” Hillcrest is strategically located

prehistoric dinosaur skeleton

MLA attempts to make Bruce the Mosasaur a Manitoba icon

The renowned Manitoba mosasaur species 
should become provincial emblem, Cameron Friesen says

Manitoba’s most famous archeological gem, Bruce the Mosasaur, would become the marine reptile fossil emblem for Manitoba under a private member’s bill brought forward by PC MLA Cameron Friesen. Bill 200, which received first reading in the Manitoba legislature Nov. 26 recognizes the mosasaur Tylosaurus pembinensis as Manitoba’s official marine reptile fossil emblem. The 13-metre