The New Iceland Heritage Museum, located in Gimli, Manitoba, is a museum dedicated to preserving the history and artifacts of the large population from Iceland who migrated to the Interlake Region of Manitoba, the area known as New Iceland.
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Honestly, save your money unless you're excruciatingly bored or curious. The best part of the museum was a short 8 minute film with a historical explanation accompanied by dramatization. There were some interesting displays of minerals and rocks. And a couple old bits of wood. The gift store possessed for sale authentic icelandic sweaters and a few other trinkets and handmade crafts from iceland. All in all I was very disappointed in the displays and lack of information. It is wheel chair accessible, washrooms available, has student discounts, and took about 10 minutes to go through. If you read every single word, it would take maximum an hour. It was open on a Sunday and run by volunteers. Low stars because it lacked a lot of information that could be in there and costs far too much for...
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Very organized and the staff are friendly in the museum. Watched a short documentary film about early Icelandic people immediated to new Iceland started Gimli and the Ukrainian joined and others. You can buy any of the museum gifts or memorial stuff with the same price or cheaper than the city shops. You will learn also about the Volcanos and the...
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My wife and are were travelling across Canada and decided to go a bit out of our way and check out Gimli. We had heard of the history and as such we made certain to go to the New Iceland museum. It was a very worthwhile side trip and I highly recommend it. As an avid history buff I learned stuff there that I had no clue about. Who knew there is a "New...
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