Living Prairie Museum

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Canada - Manitoba - Winnipeg

Institution Code: LPMW

BGCI Member: No

About the Living Prairie Museum

The Living Prairie Museum is a 12 hectare (30acre) tall grass prairie preserve located inside the City of Winnipeg. Set aside in 1968, this preserve is home to over 160 species of prairie plants and a great array of prairie wildlife. Prior to European settlement, tall grass prairie covered one million square kilometres in central North America, stretching from Texas to southern Manitoba. Today, tall grass prairie is all but gone. In Manitoba only 1/20th of 1% of the original tall grass prairie remains. The Living Prairie Museum is one of the few remaining fragments of this once vast ecosystem.


The goal of Living Prairie Museum is to provide awareness and conservation of natural areas, specifically tall grass prairie, through environmental education.

Main Address:
Living Prairie Museum
2795 Ness Avenue
Winnipeg
Manitoba R3J 3S4 Canada

Telephone: (204) 832-0167
Fax:
URL: http://winnipeg.ca/publicworks/naturalist/livingprairie/
Primary Email:

Staff Details

  • Director's Name: Kyle Lucyk, Director
    Curator's Name:
    Plant Records Officer's Name:

About the Garden

  • Institution Type: Botanic Garden
  • Date founded: 1968
  • Physical Data
  • Latitude: 49.890494
    Longitude: -97.271477
    Altitude: 0.00 Metres

Features and Facilities

Plant Collections

Conservation Programmes

Research Programmes

Education Programmes