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.
Tours through Dalnavert take about 45 minutes to an hour. Guides are happy to adapt the duration of their tours for visitors.
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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
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
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:
Gender Norms and Gender Rebels in the Victorian Period
March 2025
Celebrate Women's History Month with the Spinsters and Suffragists Tour. Using the historic house as a backdrop, this tour will teach you all about women and gender in the Victorian era, Victorian-era marriage and sexuality, and craft as a women's art form.
Price: $9-10 (free for museum members)
Tour length is 45-60 minutes
Age advisory 16+
The Irish in Canada
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.
Price: $9-10 (free for museum members)
Tour length is 45-60 minutes
Age advisory 16+
Content Warning: Includes facts, descriptions and images of death, destruction, and other atrocities
Dementia-Friendly Tours
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
Guided tours in Spanish with a fluent speaker.
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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