Beautiful Plains Museum open for season
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- Published on Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Photo by Eoin Devereux. Beautiful Plains Museum curator Lea Heschuk shows off a pair of boxing gloves from Tony Evans, a well known boxer and wrestler within the region. Those items, as well as several other pieces of sports memorabilia, are part of a new display at the museum.
Submitted by Lea Heschuk
Beautiful Plains Museum
Hello, my name is Lea Heschuk. I am excited to be back for my third year as the curator of the Beautiful Plains Museum. For the last two months, volunteers and I have been busy renovating the basement. We are still in the process of putting new displays together, so the basement is closed to visitors. Despite the basement being closed, there is still a lot to see on our main floor, upstairs and in our railcar.
A few of my favorite displays open to viewing right now include the general store, fashion room and military room. The museum also houses many history books on Neepawa and the surrounding area, which makes it a great place to look up family history.
This year our housewife display on the main floor of the museum has come down and taking its place are some of the museum’s sports artifacts. This display showcases some of Neepawa and area’s history in sports such as hockey, bowling, golf and curling. The museum also houses Tony Evan’s boxing gloves. Tony Evans was a well-known boxer and wrestler from Neepawa. A few of Tony’s achievements in boxing and wrestling are: in 1934 he was declared the inter-provincial heavyweight boxing champion, in 1939 Tony became the southwestern and western Manitoba heavyweight champion in wrestling, in 1933 Tony made it to the Olympic trials in boxing and in 1939 he made it to the Olympic trials in wrestling.
To find out more about Neepawa and area’s history in sports stop by the museum anytime during our business hours: June: 9:00 am-5:00 pm Monday to Friday; July and August: 9:00 am-5:00 pm Monday to Friday, and 1:00 pm-5:00 pm Saturday, Sunday and stat holidays. Call 204-476-3896 if you’d like to book a tour. The museum is located at 91 Hamilton Street in the former CNR station.
