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13 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Updated November 12, 2025
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Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

The world’s first museum dedicated to exploring human rights unleashed a wave of controversy.
Statue of Harry Colebourn and Winnipeg the Bear.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Winnipeg the Bear Statue

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Fort Gibraltar

The intense competition of the 19th-century fur trading industry played out at this fort in Western Canada.
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Riel House in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Riel House

The historic home of the pivotal political activist who led the Métis people in rebellion against the Canadian government.
The grave of Louis Riel, leader of the Métis peoples of Canada

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Louis Riel's Gravestone

Canada's accused-traitor-turned-folk-hero is buried under a red stone in a ring of his own.
Current Zoohky Mural

Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Zoohky Mural

A celebration of one of the West End’s most recognizable figures, who made helping others his life's work.
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Winnipeg, Manitoba

Trappist Monastery

The ruins of a burned-down monastery have become a serene park and community space. 
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Project coordinator Rosy Hartman found this child’s shoe at a former school site Carcross, Yukon. It’s now part of the Witness Blanket, wrapped in red medicine cloth and surrounded by sage and sweetgrass.

The Indigenous Canadian Work of Art with a Life of Its Own

The Witness Blanket, which honors survivors of cultural genocide, has the legal rights of a living entity.
by Ellie Clin, Atlas Obscura
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For the past decade, every elevator in the Canadian province has been graced by Cheryl Lashek's name.
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It looked like the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles.
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September 11, 2018
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Winnipeg's Coolest 'Warming Huts' Aren't Huts At All

Every year, architects design new structures to warm the heart and the fingers.
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