November: A month for Remembrance

November will feature a series of special social media posts related to Remembrance. In addition, general admission to the museum, including Remembrance Day itself, is FREE. Donations are gratefully accepted. Of course, a visit to the beautiful 300 foot Memorial Wall is always free. Remembrance Day will be our usual open house and there will be a free lecture in our vintage Canteen at 2 pm. The topic is Are museums important – who will remember? and will be given by long time museum volunteer (and our archivist) Judith Grierson. Learn about the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, called Canada’s most important contribution to the allied war effort by Winston Churchill. The BCATP was an important step in our nationhood as well. Please take some time to come out and spend some time reflecting on the brave men and women who served during WWII against fascism and for our freedom.

RCAF Memorial Wall
The Canteen Entrance

Above & Beyond: BIG sale!

Below: some of the many scale models for sale!

Below: some of the hundreds of books for sale!

We have hundreds of books, lots of scale model kits, and some art prints that need a home! Books are mainly WWII and military, however, there are some other topics as well. We have all kinds of model kits to sell as well – mostly aircraft, but some military vehicles of various types as well as custom modification pieces, figures and decals. Also up for sale are various art prints that are either surplus or do not fit our mandate. There is also a great door price for a lucky attendee! So come on out and peruse the collections, find an interesting item for yourself or for a gift.

When? Saturday October 28th from 10 am – 2 pm!

Where? In our historic Canteen building at the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum – located at the Brandon Airport!

Pay by cash, cheque (remember those?) or credit card (sorry no debit!)

Hey, Teachers!

Hello teachers! Recently a letter went to area schools sharing some resources we have for schools, as well as suggesting you consider a fall tour of the museum – or book now for a spring tour! Do you know we have an Education Committee? This committee has a few retired educators, a few current educators and a few interested people. Our mandate goes beyond school age, but much of our focus is on the K-12 level. If you did not see the letter – click here!

The museum is a great place to visit, and we can try to tailer your tour to your needs. We have many areas to connect with the curriculum – either directly (eg. flight, social studies – nationhood, role of women, and so on) as well as in creative ways, for example, how about an art class to sketch some of our aircraft or vehicles? photography class? writing? This page has some suggested curricular connections! We have some resources available on our education web page (https://airmuseum.ca/services/tours-education/) including;

  • resources for teaching flight (on Wakelet)
  • activities suitable for high school (created by a local teacher)
  • a tour guide with suggested questions
  • some online jigsaw puzzles and a jeopardy style game.
  • A selection of videos on our YouTube channel
  • Finally, do you know our Education Committee member, Don, a well known Brandon educator, has developed a learning kit that uses the BCATP as a vehicle to address many ELA and other outcomes from MB curricula? It consists of several modules and some exciting activities for learning. While it is still a ‘work in progress’, if you are interested in using the materials, please contact the museum!

Spring tours are popular at the museum, so consider us for you r trip – book as soon as you can!

Also – we are on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter (X) so give us a follow! (links in the banner).

Note – the museum must close temporarily from the end of October until the start of May, however, during the week at that time, someone is at the museum to answer your calls or emails!