Jessica McKague is assistant curator at Steinbach’s Mennonite Heritage Village Museum where the exhibit, Mennonite Food: Tastes in Transition, is on display until early 2016.

Steinbach museum reveals a global recipe swap

A new exhibit at Steinbach’s Mennonite Heritage Village Museum explores the impact of migration and other influences on Mennonite food

Why do Mennonites eat watermelon and roll’kuaka? Where’d their recipe for varenikje come from? And what’s up with all that farmers’ sausage, anyways? A new food history exhibit at the Mennonite Heritage Village Museum in Steinbach answers those questions and more. Typical Mennonite foods like kielke (egg noodles, schmauntfat (white cream gravy) and/or pereschtje (meat-filled

woman in front of museum

2015 last summer for Canadian 4-H Museum in Roland

Museum worried about the dampness in the old 1902 brick building on Roland’s Main Street 
currently housing the collection

After 25 years on display inside a former Royal Bank building on Roland’s Main Street, the 4-H Museum is looking for a new home. At the end of this summer they will pack everything up, whether they have a new site to move to or not, say Roland residents tasked with finding it. It’s a


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

Preserving History On A Shoestring

They preserve the past and they re open for the present, but the future is uncertain for many of this province s smaller museums. Filled as they are with local collections of artifacts, many run on near empty, with shoestring budgets and scant volunteer labour. The Manitoba Agricultural Museum is grappling with budgetary constraints and


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