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48 Hours in Winnipeg
Read this handy guide on how to make the most of your time if you only have 48 hours in the beautiful Winnipeg.
Assiniboine Park Zoo – Journey to Churchill Exhibit
Assiniboine Park Zoo’s Journey to Churchill exhibit is an award-winning exhibit and is the world’s most comprehensive northern species exhibit the world. Here, you can spend time watching polar bears play overhead in a glass tunnel we call the Sea Ice Passage, see movie star wolves (they starred in The Grey opposite Liam Neeson), muskox, Arctic fox, snow owls, and many more species in their massive enclosures that have been created to mimic the Subarctic region of Churchill, Manitoba.
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The Leaf
The Leaf is a spectacular indoor horticultural attraction where visitors journey through four distinct biomes: the Hartley and Heather Richardson Tropical Biome, Mediterranean Biome, Babs Asper Display House, and the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden.At the Leaf, visitors experience a stunning showcase of natural diversity expressed through plants that shape our lives here in Manitoba and across the globe, including towering palms, aromatic flowers, stunning succulents, and more. Canada’s largest indoor waterfall helps create a humid, warm environment in the Hartley and Heather Richardson Tropical Biome.
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FortWhyte Alive
Through an 660-acre reclaimed urban green space, FortWhyte Alive brings people together to share unforgettable experiences and build sustainable relationships with nature and each other through nature based education, programs, and experiences.
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Gather Craft Kitchen
Around the world, people gather with food for celebration, ceremony, and connection. Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar, located in The Leaf at Assiniboine Park, explores food from across cultures, incorporating fresh, locally-sourced, and seasonal ingredients from their gardens. Craveable dishes incorporate traditional flavours and techniques from around the world, inspired by the surrounding nature. Pickled, preserved, fermented or straight off the vine, local ingredients are creatively prepared to highlight the amazing growers and farmers in Manitoba. Inventive, botanical cocktails made with herbs grown in-house, seasonal fruits, and house-made syrups will delight the senses.
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Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada
Discover more than 100 years of aviation history as you learn about Canadian heroes, innovators, and change-makers. Climb aboard a 1960’s-era passenger plane, learn about the science of flight, and discover hands-on experiences throughout the museum’s exhibits. Kids will love the space-themed play area, aviation enthusiasts will love the more than 20 aircraft on display, and everyone will love watching planes come and go through the observation lounge windows as live audio from the airport's control tower plays overhead. Learn, play, and be inspired at the new Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada.
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Dinner at Hargrave Street Market (and hopefully a sporting event)
Hargrave Street Market is the city’s newest food hall boasting a number of excellent concepts from some of Winnipeg’s best chefs and restaurant groups, and serves as Manitoba’s homebase for Lake of the Woods Brewing Company. The market also features Yard Burger, The Good Fight Taco and Rosé Bar—all by Academy Hospitality, which also has the sit-down restaurant Gusto North with its fabulous patio and eye-catching interior design (great pizzas and risotto too). Plus, there’s Saburo Kitchen by the Yujiro/Gaijin Izakaya team, featuring ramen and sushi; Miss Browns for brunch items and smoked meat; and Fools & Horses Coffee Co for an assortment of hot drinks and locally roasted beans.
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Breakfast and walk at The Forks
Manitoba’s number one attraction, The Forks, is a four-season destination. It offers entertaining walking tours from Parks Canada; a bustling market — home to shops selling local wares and food kiosks by some of Winnipeg’s best restaurants; the world’s longest naturally frozen skating trail in the winter; and art installations like the Warming Huts, which have been designed by some of the globe’s most well-known architects, artists, and design firms. Its a fantastic option for groups, as they can grab a bite to eat and shop local.
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Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Experience the powerful stories of past and present at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Using innovative approaches, this national museum invites visitors to explore and reflect on human rights in Canada and internationally. It shares hundreds of stories in ways that can be appropriate for visitors of all ages, and the Museum is accessible to people of all abilities. Visits can be experienced in either of Canada’s official languages – English or French. Located at The Forks, in downtown Winnipeg, the Museum is literally at the centre of it all.
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Lunch and walk in the historic Exchange District
Due to its vast collection of turn-of-the-20th century buildings, this whole area of the city is a designated National Historic Site. While walking Exchange District's 20+ blocks you’ll see handsome brick warehouses, “terra cotta skyscrapers” adorned with gargoyles, lions, and other fanciful features and a number of neoclassical bank buildings that marked Winnipeg’s boom years, when the city was referred to as “The Chicago of the North.” Today, this area often stands in for both Chicago and New York when Hollywood productions are being filmed here, while these historic buildings are now home to trendy coffee shops, galleries, restaurants, design firms and locally- owned retail shops.
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Winnipeg Art Gallery - Qaumajuq
When the Winnipeg Art Gallery unveiled Qaumajuq, its $65-million Inuit art centre, it was met with rave reviews from publications across the globe for its design, mandate and showcasing of the world’s largest collection of contemporary Inuit art. Its striking façade is like a massive snowdrift attached to the WAG’s original angular building, while inside the galleries pay homage to the stark, expansive beauty of the north. The WAG houses an internationally acclaimed collection of over 27,000 works, spanning the Renaissance to today with an emphasis on contemporary Indigenous artists.
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Dinner and Thermal Experience at Thermea
Thermea is a tranquil outdoor spa that brings a bit of Scandinavia to the heart of Canada. Let the stress soak out of you in thermal pools situated amongst the pines, then sweat it out in a massive Finnish sauna before taking an icy plunge under a waterfall. Treat yourself to the best in body treatments and massage therapy, then dine in your robe in Restö. With steam rooms, heated hammocks, relaxation chambers, a misty beach and more, Thermea makes relaxing easy.
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