Education
Mennonite Heritage Village Education School ProgramsEnjoy a day out of the classroom as you and your students step back in time with our school programs. We offer a variety of activities that engages students using multi-sensory activities. We recognize the value of a tangible, diverse, and immersive education. Students will have the opportunity to handle artefacts, be educated by in-costume interpreters, visit restored historical buildings, and be fully immersed in an environment that depicts the Mennonite story from the 1800s’ to the present day.
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Program Options
Interpretive Program
Hands-On Outdoor Program
Guided Tours
(May – September)
Summer Program
(July, August)
Winter Program
School Tours
(October, November, February – April)
Interpretive Program
The Interpretive Program is an excellent way for kindergarten to Grade 8 students to experience the Mennonite Heritage Village outdoors.
What you can expect
The class will be divided into groups of 8-12 students with an adult leader assigned to each group. The groups will follow a map around the museum campus and interact with interpreters in various buildings and at assigned stations. The program begins at 10:00 am and runs until 2:00 pm, with a lunch break and some free time included.
Activities may include
- Visit the semlin (underground house)
- Watch an interpreter spin wool at the house-barn
- Sample schnetje (biscuits) and fresh rhubarb jam in the summer kitchen
- Visit the Old Colony Church
- Observe the miller at work in the windmill
- Watch the blacksmith make horseshoes and/or nails
- Watch the printer at the printery
- Go on a horse-drawn wagon ride (weather permitting)
*Activities subject to change due to weather and volunteer scheduling
Hand-On Program
The Hands-On program is a great way for Kindergarten to Grade 8 students to experience the MHV outdoors, including, trying several early settler skills.
What you can expect
The class will be divided into groups of 6-10 students, with an adult leader assigned to each group. The groups will follow a map around the museum campus and interact with interpreters in various buildings and at assigned stations, participating in several activities and skills related to early settler life in Manitoba. The program begins at 10:00 am and goes until 2:00 pm, with a lunch break and some free time included.
Activities may include
- Listening to a story (illustrated with large pictures) of a pioneer family while snowed inside their semlin (sod house).
- Packing a trunk with replica items for Mennonite immigrant family moving from Russia to Manitoba in 1874;
- Writing on a slate with slate pencils in a Mennonite private school setting.
- Learning to write with a quill pen and ink in a Mennonite private school setting.
- Watching spinning wool and/or learning to quilt a comforter.
- Carding and spinning wool, darning socks, braiding rugs.
- Making a handkerchief toy (“kodda pup”).
Playing traditional Mennonite circle games.
Learning to use and handle woodworking tools. - Learning to do laundry on a washboard and a mangle
- Learning to bake biscuits (schnetje)
*Activities subject to change due to weather and volunteer scheduling
Guided Tours
What you can expect
MHV guides trace the lives of the early Manitoba settlers from their arrival in the 1870’s to their established village activities in the 1920’s. The program begins at 10:00 am and runs until 2:00 pm, with a lunch break and some free time included. Customized tours and visits are also available.
Contact Us
Phone: 204-326-9661
Schedule and instructions will be emailed prior to visit.
School Tours
Summer day camps
WINTER DAY CAMPS
