The Manitoba Museum is offering free admission to the museum galleries, planetarium and science gallery from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 in recognition of Orange Shirt Day.

Thirty Manitoba museums will be receiving a share of $240,000 in provincial funding this year, the province's culture minister announced Friday.

Endowment funds worth $1.4 million each will go to museums in six Manitoba communities, part of a plan to support the preservation of Manitoba history and heritage, the province announced today.

Huge dioramas of Canadian nature scenes painted by Manitoba wildlife artist Clarence Tillenius have been moved in a painstaking procedure at the Canadian Museum of Nature.