The Pioneer Village Museum in Beausejour, Manitoba, invites everyone to experience early 1900s prairie life at the 28th Annual Heritage Day on August 9, 2026. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and offers living-history demonstrations and hands-on activities for all ages.
Visitors can explore an open-air museum that looks like a small rural Manitoba community from over a century ago. The site has authentic and rebuilt structures like a log house, the Sebright schoolhouse, a community hall, a Canadian Pacific Railway station, a general store, a blacksmith shop, and the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church with its bell tower.
Admission costs $5 for adults, while children 12 and under get in free. Organizers suggest checking the museum’s website for the latest updates on demonstrations and activities.
The museum is located at Park Avenue and 7th Street North in Beausejour. It is run by volunteers from the Broken-Beau Historical Society, which founded the museum in 1967. The annual Heritage Day is one of the museum’s biggest events, offering a chance to learn about the region’s pioneer roots.
Many early settlers in the Beausejour area were of Polish, Ukrainian, or German descent, arriving from Galicia and Volhynia starting in the 1870s. The museum works to keep their stories and traditions alive through events like Heritage Day.
