BleedingTypewriter

This is so cool, the Manitoba Museum is one of my favourite places in the city! Been visiting for close to 20 years, thank you guys for continuously inspiring people, both kids and adults, to have an interest in the world around them. Some of my favourite memories are exploring all around the Nonsuch and especially spending forever in the 1920s area and watching old black and white films. You guys do amazing work and Winnipeg loves you for it!

I have three questions:

1) How do you decide what's displayed, and for how long? I find it so interesting that there are still exhibits that take me right back to being a little kid and are exactly the same, and yet every time I go to this day there's something new. (20 years later, still learning from you guys, this is why you're so awesome!) Is it mostly monetary, is there a committee of people who decide?

2) The polar bear standing over the dead seal and the hidden group of bats in the cave used to freak me right out when I was a kid. Please tell me those are here to stay forever, I love to go to the museum and watch all the kids experience that for the first time. :)

3) I'm a bit of a typewriter enthusiast and constantly hear that museums are overrun with machines and often won't even take them. There's usually a pretty simple standard on display, but do you know what other machines the museum has hidden away?

Thanks again for a lifetime of learning!

Yay, thanks! Glad to hear those classics are here to stay. :)

A typewriter...with Cree syllabics? That's so cool, what a find! (Also, I still use a typewriter for just about everything, despite being mid-20s, the fact that someone else is actually using one warms my type-enthusiast heart!)

And organs!

This gave me pause. Took me a second to realize...playable organs, not the other ones. I was like "Daaaang, I thought the Bodies exhibit was its own separate deal!" :p

Anyway, thanks for the answers and your time!