Winnipeg

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The Forks sits at the meeting point of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened in 2014 and is the first national museum built outside the National Capital Region, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Exchange District is a National Historic Site with early twentieth century warehouses and commercial buildings, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Golden Boy statue crowns the dome of the Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba

About Winnipeg

Winnipeg, Manitoba's capital, stands at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in the middle of the continent. For thousands of years the meeting point was a gathering place for Indigenous peoples, later becoming a fur trade hub and then a booming railway city. Its mix of Indigenous, Métis, French, and immigrant communities gives it a strong cultural life.

The Forks, where the rivers meet, is the city's social center, with a market, river walkways, and, in winter, skating trails on the frozen rivers. Beside it, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is a striking building and a national museum. The Exchange District, with its early twentieth-century warehouses and terra-cotta facades, holds galleries, theaters, and restaurants, while the Manitoba Museum and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, with its large collection of Inuit art, are nearby. The Manitoba Legislative Building is known for its neoclassical grandeur. Across the river, St. Boniface, the city's francophone quarter, has the ruins of St. Boniface Cathedral and the St. Boniface Museum. The Royal Canadian Mint produces Canada's circulation coins and offers tours, while Assiniboine Park and its zoo, home to polar bears, provide green space. FortWhyte Alive offers nature trails and bison viewing.

Winnipeg suits culture lovers and festival goers. Summers are warm, winters intensely cold yet celebrated with events like Festival du Voyageur.

Best seasonJune to September for patios and festivals; February for Festival du Voyageur and river skating.

Ideal stayThree or four days covers the museums, The Forks and St. Boniface.

ArrivingWinnipeg Richardson International Airport is the main gateway, and VIA Rail's transcontinental train stops here.

WiserMap travel guideWinnipeg Manitoba The Forks and the Human Rights MuseumPlan a trip to Winnipeg in Manitoba: The Forks, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Exchange District, St. Boniface, polar bears and prairie food.Read the guide

What to See in Winnipeg: 12 Favorites

Neighborhoods 2

The Forks

Where the Red and Assiniboine rivers meet, people have gathered to trade and travel for around 6,000 years, and The Forks remains...

Exchange District

When Winnipeg boomed as the grain and rail gateway to the Canadian West around 1900, banks and warehouses rose here in a rush, and...

Museums 4

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Opened in 2014 beside The Forks, this striking building by architect Antoine Predock wraps a glass cloud around stone roots and en...

Manitoba Museum

The province's largest museum and planetarium tells the human and natural story of Manitoba, from ancient seabeds and fossils to t...

Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq

Founded in 1912, the Winnipeg Art Gallery holds a broad collection of Canadian and international art, but its biggest draw is Qaum...

Royal Canadian Mint Winnipeg

Every circulation coin used in Canada is struck at this facility in southeast Winnipeg, recognizable by its glass tower rising fro...

Landmarks 2

Manitoba Legislative Building

Completed in 1920, the neoclassical seat of Manitoba's government is crowned by the Golden Boy, a gilded statue carrying a torch a...

St. Boniface Cathedral and the St. Boniface Museum

Across the Red River from downtown, St. Boniface is the heart of Western Canada's largest francophone community. Its cathedral is...

Parks 3

Assiniboine Park

Winnipeg's grand urban park opened in 1909 along the Assiniboine River and covers more than a thousand acres including the adjacen...

Assiniboine Park Zoo

Inside Assiniboine Park, this zoo is especially known for Journey to Churchill, a large exhibit devoted to northern Manitoba wildl...

FortWhyte Alive

On the southwest edge of the city, former industrial quarries have been transformed into a nature centre of lakes, marsh, aspen wo...

History 1

Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site

About half an hour's drive north of Winnipeg on the Red River, this is the oldest intact stone fur-trade fort in North America, bu...

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