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A new month of social distancing has begun, and Winnipeg’s museums and galleries are generating plenty of brand new content to keep visitors engaged from the comfort of their own homes.
On Saturday, the Manitoba Museum launched ManitobaMuseum@Home, a virtual museum experience delivered by email. The first offering celebrates the nature and wildlife of the Prairies in springtime.
“Manitoba’s provincial flower, the Prairie Crocus (Anemone patens) is a harbinger of spring,” says Diana Bizecki Robson, curator of botany at the Manitoba Museum, in a media release.
“Crocuses can live up to 50 years, producing more and more flowers with age.”
The virtual exhibit focuses on the Criddle family, which includes Norman Criddle, the first provincial entomologist of Manitoba. The family, who moved to Manitoba in 1882, recorded weather, painted wild plants and collected local specimens as part of their work as naturalists.
The museum is also presenting a diorama contest in honour of its 50th anniversary.
“We are encouraging classrooms and families to join in the celebrations by creating their own mini dioramas,” says executive director and CEO Claudette Leclerc. “To celebrate, we want you to create your own moment-in-time diorama featuring the diversity of Manitoba’s history, nature and science.”
Other museums in Winnipeg are also continuing to expand their virtual offerings, including the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, which is calling for Canadians to share videos of their experiences during the pandemic.
The Share Your Story program encourages participants 18 years of age and over to record videos of up to two minutes. Prompts and questions are available on the CMHR website, with the overarching theme relating to the current pandemic and how it has changed lives across the world.
“This new initiative has been launched at a time when people around the globe are dealing with a broad spectrum of challenges that we could not have imagined only a few short weeks ago,” said CMHR president and CEO John Young in a media release. “At this difficult time, we hope to encourage a focus on compassion and community, which are fundamental to human rights.”
Videos of the Manitoba Museum exhibits and galleries are available on YouTube at ManitobaMuseum, and you can sign up for the ManitobaMuseum@Home newsletter or learn more about the diorama contest on the museum website at manitobamuseum.ca.
A virtual tour of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and access to the Share Your Story prompts, are available online at humanrights.ca.
Frances.Koncan@freepress.mb.ca
Twitter: @franceskoncan