If I had a tail I’d wag, and it’s a shame their shop isn’t called swag. The museum in Winnipeg has over 24,000 works of indigenous art and the largest collection of Inuit art in the world. It has space for educational activities and docents that explain the works to visitors.
The vast expanse of whiteness and glassy display towers reflect the environs of the Arctic. It feels as if guests have entered a cavern in an iceberg to view the life of Inuits through carved bone, photographs, and textiles.
The special exhibition of the season was about the art of news cycles. I didn’t think news belonged in a museum yet, but the paper print of the Winnipeg Free Press that ran for 150 years sure does. Proof of recent copies of the paper were displayed alongside archives of newspapers from the 19th century. The format of the newspaper hasn’t changed much. Color photographs, leaner fonts, fancier graphics maybe, but mostly the same throughout the centuries.
Strangely, the museum also has a collection of European art. It reminds me of the art museum in Hannover; it targets a very niche audience who like to see art they’ve never seen before and probably won’t understand on a deep level, but appreciate that art has value to someone even if it’s not themselves.
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