Pioneer village

Manitoba Agricultural Museum sows seeds for its future

The Manitoba Agricultural Museum will host a music festival, military heritage displays 
as part of its effort to make the facility more accessible to a wider audience

Bright-coloured quilts are a welcome sight these chilly first days of spring, and the Manitoba Agricultural Museum (MAM), dedicated to all-things-Prairie, is the place to see 100 of them this weekend. This is the second year the Austin-area museum will gives visitors a warm welcome, as part of expanding programming, and new events and attractions

OUR HISTORY: 1800s — 1940s

Getting around in the early days The Manitoba Agricultural Museum is opening a new transportation display on Manitoba Day May 12. The display tells the story of transportation in rural Manitoba from the Red River cart of the 1800s right through to the vehicles of the 1940s. It uses real artifacts from the various eras


The Evolution Of On-Farm Fuel Storage

Manitoba Agricultural Museum release In the summer of 2010, while looking through a scrap pile on a western Manitoba farm for Rumely silo filler parts, a Manitoba Agricultural Museum volunteer made a much more interesting find steel oil barrels. While many readers might be thinking, Steel barrels! Do these people have nothing better to do?

Manitoba Agricultural Museum Faces Cuts

Volunteers managing the Manitoba Agricultural Museum, home of Canada s largest collection of vintage agricultural equipment, says it faces an uncertain future as they grapple with a cut in operating funds. Although they ve known for a while the cuts that took effect last January were coming, it s been tough to come up with



Fire Damages Manitoba Agricultural Museum

Staff at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum at Austin hope that fire damage can be repaired in time for the regular opening in early May, a spokesman said last week. On March 29 at 11:30 p. m the Austin Fire Department was called by a neighbour who saw the smoke from one of the museum’s buildings.


Festivals – for Jul. 29, 2010

Contact us with your event, dates, location &contact information at [email protected]. July 29-Aug. 1:Manitoba Thresherman’s Reunion and Stampede, Manitoba Agricultural Museum, Austin. Contact Sandra Head at 204-637-2354 or visit www.ag-museum.mb.ca. July 29-Aug. 1:Swan River Valley Fair, contact Colleen Immerkar at 204-734-3718 or [email protected]. July 29-Aug. 1:Rockin’ the Fields of Minnedosa, Lake Minnedosa. Featuring Helix, the

Fairs & Festivals – for Sep. 17, 2009

Is your community hosting a farm fair or exhibition in 2009? Contact the Co-operator with your event, dates, location, contact information (phone, e-mail and/or website) and updates or changes at [email protected]. Sept. 18-20 – Harvest Moon Festival, Clearwater. Features local food, fair-trade fair, farm tours and live music including Del Barber, Doug and Jess, Royal