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The Manitoba Museum has over 2.9 million artifacts and specimens, and extensive botanical and cultural collections relating to the Métis homeland.

The Manitoba Museum acknowledges we are on Treaty No.1 land, the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Ininíwak, and Michif. These lands, water, and waterways are the unceded territories of the Dakota, and the homeland of the Red River Métis Nation. The Museum is committed to reflecting the continued legacy of all the original peoples of this province, including the Ithiniwak, Denesułine, Anishininiwak, Inuit, and Nakota.

We acknowledge the harms of the past, are committed to improving relationships in the spirit of reconciliation, and appreciate the opportunity to live and learn on these traditional lands in mutual respect. 

McCord Stewart Museum is a public research and teaching museum dedicated to the preservation, study, diffusion, and appreciation of Canadian history. The McCord Stewart Museum holds over 16,000 cultural belongings from Indigenous and Métis cultures. Of these, around 5,800 are available from the museum’s online catalogue: https://www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/collections/indigenous-cultures/.

The McCord Stewart Museum sits on land used and occupied by Indigenous peoples for millennia that has never been ceded by treaty. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation has a profound and ongoing attachment to this territory, which it calls Tiohtiá:ke. Acknowledging that colonialism has had devastating consequences on First Peoples, the Museum recognizes its duty to help raise awareness of Indigenous cultures and to support their continued vitality.

McGill University Herbarium (MUH) is within the Department of Plant Sciences. It is the oldest research museum of dried plant specimens in Canada and holds some 140,000 botanical objects available for research. The collection is in the process of being digitized, and data for some specimens can be downloaded from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).