Come and experience the Manitoba Agricultural Museum’s Hands-on Program for schools.
Click HERE to download a printable brochure
Harvest Helpers
- Watch a steam engine power up a threshing machine
- Watch a binder tie grain into sheaves.
- Toss a sheaf up into the threshing machine and see the grain separate from the straw
- Learn to bundle sheaves into stooks
Time Travel
Enter the year 1918 through a time machine built by the museum’s professor, and visit 6 characters from the past.
- Watch the
blacksmith heat up the forge - Make candles in an 1879 log house
- Write on slates in a one room schoolhouse
- Do laundry with a pioneer housewife
- Barter for candy in the General Store
- And much more!
Bakers Bonanza
Get a taste of pioneercooking
- Prepare dough and bake bread in a pioneer stove
- Measure and mix, cut and bake biscuits in a woodstove
- Separate cream from milk by using a hand separator
- Churn cream into butter and enjoy freshly baked bread and biscuits
- Includes a tour
Daily Duties
Find out what a day is like without electricity, running water, and money to run to the store!
- Test an old fashioned scrub board, lift a sad iron, pump water, and try many surprising
household chores - Try a hand at grinding a little flour
- Participate in the morning chores
Simple Machines
- Learn about simple machines as you participate in a scavenger hunt in our authentic pioneer village.
- Compliments the Grade 5 science curriculum.
Tour
Let our tour guides help you see life as it was during pioneer times. Our pioneer village has been stuck in time since the early 1900′s. It has Log Houses, Blacksmith Shop, Gristmill, General Store, Post Office, Train Station, Steam Engines and much more!
Barter for candy, stamp post cards, check out “Big Roy” as a part of your tour!
Programs available:
Time Travel: Mondays and Tuesdays
Bakers Bonanza: Wednesdays (includes a tour)
Daily Duties: Thursdays (includes a tour)
Harvest Helpers: Thursdays (includes a tour)
Simple Machines: Thursdays (includes a tour)
$7.00/student includes program and supplies.
Please ensure the students are dressed for outdoor activities.
Please bring cash or cheque for payment.
Also available
- Hot dog roast including BBQ pit, fruit, and a drink. $5.00/student, please pre-book.
- BBQ pit only $20.00 please pre-book.
- Souvenir shop upon request.
- Ice cream cones for $1.00
- Playground and shaded picnic area.
Call the museum at (204) 637-2354 or email handson@ag-museum.com
