Le Musée de St. Boniface Museum

Model of the convent

Groups of up to 50 peo­ple can be accom­mo­dated on a tour. All pro­grams include a guided tour of the Museum itself. Reser­va­tions are required a week in advance so that enough guides are avail­able. You will receive a con­fir­ma­tion by fax; it must be signed and returned to com­plete the reser­va­tion. In case of a can­cel­la­tion, please give the Museum 24 hours’ advance notice, to avoid being billed.

Dis­cov­er­ing Legends

Lev­els: Kinder­garten to Grade 3

Length: 1 – 3 hours

Cost: $5.00 – $7.00 per participant

Do you know any leg­ends? Do you know where leg­ends come from? Do you know why leg­ends exist? Visit the St. Boni­face Museum’s spe­cial exhibit ‘DISCOVERING LEGENDS’ and find out! (Jan­u­ary 18^th to March 18^th, 2012). Explore Fran­coph­one and Native oral tra­di­tions through guided tours and cur­ricu­lum based programming.

Guided Tour = 1 hr, 5$ / per­son, Max: 20

Guided Tour + 1 Work­shop = 2 hrs, 6$ / per­son, Max: 40

Guided Tour + 2 Work­shops = 3 hrs, 7$ / per­son, Max: 60

Work­shops include ‘Cre­ate your own leg­end’ and ‘Paint your own legend’.

To reserve your group book­ing, call (204) 237‑4500

Guided tour
• Learn about Fran­coph­one and Native Amer­i­can oral traditions
• Lis­ten and see sto­ries col­lected by Eth­nol­o­gist Jean-Claude Dupont
• Explore all the fan­tas­tic ele­ments of myths and legends

Work­shop 1 – Cre­ate your own oral legend
• Get inspired and cre­ate your own legend
• Choose a hero, a vil­lain and a storyline
• Use your imag­i­na­tion and open the door to a fan­tas­tic world

Work­shop 2 – Paint your own legend
• Cre­ate a mas­ter­piece based on a myth or legend
• Pre­tend to be an eth­nol­o­gist and make sketches by while lis­ten­ing to a myth­i­cal legend
• Paint excit­ing char­ac­ters and amaz­ing scenarios

Med­i­c­i­nal Reme­dies Game

Level: grades 5 to 12; adults

Length; 1½ hours

Cost: $6.00 per participant

What ill­ness can be warded off with the skin of a “chicoque”? – that’s a French word for skunk derived from the Ojib­way lan­guage. This enter­tain­ing game was prompted by some of the rec­ol­lec­tions of French-Canadian and Métis elders who recorded their oral his­tory. In it, you have to con­nect the med­i­cine with the ill­ness it is sup­posed to treat. The aim is to make us aware of how self-sufficient past gen­er­a­tions had to be in tak­ing care of their own health, and in find­ing and devel­op­ing cures. The activ­ity also shows how impor­tant it is to record oral history.

Bil­bo­quet – a Métis Ring-and-Pin Game

Level: grades 3 to 12; suit­able for other groups

Length: 1½ hours

Cost: $6.00 per participant

Some form of this game is found all over the world, and it was very pop­u­lar among Natives and Métis. Their ring-and-pin game is made of a disk with holes pierced in it; a stick is attached to the disk on a leather cord. The object of the game is to score points by throw­ing the disk in the air and catch­ing it on the stick. Par­tic­i­pants will make their very own bil­bo­quet as they learn more about the his­tory of the game, and then they can play! Per­haps a cham­pion will emerge.

The Lit­tle Schoolhouse

Level: grades 2 to 6

Length; 1½ hours

Cost: $6.00 per student

Come in, sit down on one of the school benches, and be good. A Grey Nun will give you a cal­lig­ra­phy lesson.