The New Iceland Heritage Museum in Gimli, Interlake, Canada | Museum

The Icelandic community in North America long felt the desire to establish a truly ethnic Museum to foster the heritage and the culture of its people and provide a repository for the many artifacts that would relay the story of the first settlements of their forefathers hence The New Iceland Heritage Museum.

This Museum is one of six Manitoba Signature Museums. A designation by the province aimed at select Museums that showcase special collections and have the potential to be significantly enhanced heritage Museum attraction. While Gimli has long had a small community Museum, The New Iceland Heritage Museum (NIHM) has initiated a plan to create a new Museum facility. One of the recommendations made in the Planning and Feasibility study completed in 1994 by Lord Cultural Resources Planning and Management Inc. was that a new Museum be a major departure from the traditional concept of a small community Museum. That it be developed as a national or even international Museum dedicated to telling the story of New Iceland and the Icelandic experience in North America. This, The New Iceland Heritage Museum, Gimli, Canada, would attract a larger and more diverse audience while educating visitors about a very unique chapter in Canada's history.