ONGOING COMMUNITY SAFETY PROTOCOLS
Dalnavert will maintain the following safety protocols until further notice:
- Masks recommended indoors
- Operating at 50% capacity
Please visit our safety protocol page in advance of your visit for more information.
On our guided tours one of our many experienced volunteers will take you through the house and explain the history of Dalnavert, its occupants over the years and contrast how the wealthy Macdonald family lived compared to their working-class servants.
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Dalnavert Museum and Visitors' Centre is at 61 Carlton Street. Visitors must be supervised by a staff member or volunteer while in the house.
Tour length is 45 minutes to 1 hour
Price: $6-10
Tours are offered daily Wednesday- Sunday
Guides are happy to adapt the duration of their tours for visitors.
Step into history! Our Behind the Ropes tour lets up to 3 people experience an up close and personal tour of Dalnavert from inside its many historic rooms.
Tour length is 1.5 to 2 hours
Price: $30
Sundays at 10:00 am
Dalnavert On Drugs
AVAILABLE Year-round
Unearth the history of drug use (and misuse) during the Victorian era in this speciality tour.
This compelling journey through Dalnavert will explore how scientific knowledge, technological advances, societal beliefs, and growing colonial trade routes shaped drug and medical culture in the 19th century in ways that are both familiar and strange.
Tour length is 45-60 minutes
Price: $13-15 (Free for Dalnavert Members)
Fridays and Sundays at 1:30 pm
Age Advisory: 16+
Content Warning: Includes graphic details of historic medical practices, addictions, and illnesses as well as drug use.
Spinsters and Suffragists
March 2-30
In celebration of International Women's Day on March 8th, this new tour for March looks at the prevailing attitudes about gender and gender roles in the Victorian era, and how women, transgender individuals, and gender non-conforming individuals rebelled against those ideas.
Tour length is 45-60 minutes
Price: $9-10 (Free for museum members)
Tours will be offered daily Wednesday- Sunday at 2:30 pm
Age advisory 16+
Note: There will be no tours on March 8th and 9th
The Irish in Canada
MARCH 15-16 ONLY
By the time Queen Victoria ascended to the British throne in 1837, almost 60% of all immigrants entering Canada were Irish and by the time of her death in 1901 the Irish Canadian population stood at almost 1 million.
Join us on this special tour of Dalnavert to learn about the fascinating story of the Irish in Canada. Using the spaces of this Victorian house, we’ll examine how generations of Irish immigrants fled persecution and poverty at home and what happened to them when they arrived in the land we now know as Canada.
Tour length is 45-60 minutes
Price: $9-10 (free for museum members)
Age advisory 16+
Content Warning: Includes facts, descriptions and images of death, destruction, and other atrocities
Dementia-Friendly Tours
AVAILABLE Year-round
For people living with early to moderate symptoms of dementia and their care partners.
Tour length: 1.5 hours
Price: $24 per pair
Last Saturday of every month at 10:00 am
Developed in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba
Spanish Tours
AVAILABLE Year-round
Dalnavert now offers Spanish language tours! Join Inés Bonacossa and up to 4 other people on a Spanish tour.
Tour length is 1 hour
Price: $6 - $10
Fridays or Sundays by request only. To book, please contact the museum at info@dalnavertmuseum.ca or 204-943-2835.
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