Your complete guide to the best tours in Winnipeg: Explore the city's best kept secrets
From restaurant hops and pub crawls to historic tours, Winnipeg has guided experiences for everyone.
Whether you’re new to town, just visiting, or you’ve lived here all your life, there’s always something new to discover in Winnipeg. If you’re ready to explore Winnipeg, you’ve come to the right place. Rumor’s — Winnipeg’s best comedy club — has compiled this list of the best Winnipeg tours to help you discover top Winnipeg landmarks and historical points of interest.
More: More comedians coming to Winnipeg in 2023
Get to know Winnipeg
Winnipeg has a long and interesting history and vibrant cultural communities, making the Manitoba capital a vast mosaic of food, art, and architecture. From the birth of the Metis nation, to the landmark 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, to the alluring aromas of the restaurants of Winnipeg’s International Village, new sights and sounds and tastes await you in Winnipeg.
Winnipeg mural tours
Everywhere you turn in Winnipeg, you’ll find colorful murals paying homage to the local people and culture. From indigenous inspired pieces in Winnipeg’s North End, to sports icons in Elmwood, to hidden gems in Winnipeg’s historic Exchange district, there are murals of all shapes and sizes in the Peg.
The West End mural in particular are award-winning jaunts through one of the oldest and most culturally vibrant neighborhoods in Winnipeg.
Winnipeg public art tours
One of the best things to do in Winnipeg on a nice day is to take a guided public art tour. Winnipeg is full of public art installations from, especially the downtown core. Get in touch with the Winnipeg Arts Council to get the low down on all the sculptures and installations you’ve seen on your way home from work, and others that you never knew existed.
Pedal Pub Winnipeg
Up for something different? Grab 14 buddies and hop on the Pedal Pub, a pedal powered mobile pub that highlights Winnipeg’s best local breweries and watering holes. It’s a great way to spend a hot summer afternoon with the gang and get some exercise in (sort of).
Winnipeg true crime tours
Like any city, Winnipeg has it’s own sordid past. True crime fans will get a kick out of Square Peg’s Wicked Winnipeg tour, which recounts the stories of our city’s most notorious criminals. Or take their Naughty Bawdy tour which exposes 1910s Winnipeg’s seedy underbelly full of brothels, underground casinos, and illegal drinking halls.
Winnipeg sightseeing tours
There are plenty of guided tours of Winnipeg landmarks including tours of the Legislative Building, the Royal Canadian Mint, the Winnipeg Zoo, and the newly opened Leaf.
Westend food tours
Go around the world in two hours with a Westend food tour. Winnipeg’s Westend is known for its global pallet, with Ethiopian, Chinese, Italian, Greek, Middle Eastern, and Carribean restaurants for your dining pleasure. The Westend food tour gives you a taste of life in Winnipeg’s most multicultural neighborhood.
Winnipeg ghost tours
If you’re looking for a bit of a chill, why not check out the Winnipeg ghost tours. You’ll learn about the haunting past of places like the Manitoba Legislature and the Vaughan Street Jail. And, who knows, maybe you’ll even see a ghost.
Winnipeg general strike tours
In 1919, workers across Winnipeg went on strike to protest low wages and poor living conditions for workers, immigrants, and soldiers returning home from WWI. Winnipeg was ground to a halt for over 40 days by demonstrations, which occasionally grew violent, as was the case when protesters topples a trolley car, an event captured in the public art display at the the corner of Main St. and Market Ave.
You can see all of the significant sites of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike on the Strike! The Walking Tour tour put on by the Exchange District Biz.
Winnipeg movie tour
Winnipeg has been the set of many Hollywood productions from the Academy Award-winning Capote to the feel good 2022 comedy, Champions. In fact, we even made a list of movies shot right here in Winnipeg a while back. But, if you want a more hands-on experience, you can take the Winnipeg in the Limelight smartphone GPS tour. Just download the app here.
Winnipeg sightseeing helicopter tour
Don’t want to do a lot of walking? Why not explore Winnipeg by helicopter with Fast Air? The bird’s-eye view of Winnipeg will change the way you look at our city—literally. You’ll see all the top Winnipeg landmarks from the inside of a Bell 206 Jet Ranger Helicopter.
Winnipeg river tours
If you think that helicopters are for the birds, then how about a fish-eye view Winnipeg? Splash Dash River Tours offers riverboat tours of Winnipeg’s waterways. Beginning at the Forks, your guide will take you to all the most important sites along the banks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in this historical boat ride.
Winnipeg music tour
For some reason Winnipeg has produced many huge musical acts from the Guess Who, to Neil Young, to Fouzia. The Magical Musical History Tour, led by a local music historian, takes you to some of the landmarks that are preserved in Winnipeg’s music lore.
More: Musicians from Manitoba
Comedy tours coming to Winnipeg
After a day of sight-seeing, come on down to Rumor’s Comedy Club for an evening of hearty laughs. Some of the best comedians in the world are on tour right now, and they’re coming right through Winnipeg and Rumor’s, including Michael Ian Black, Ariel Elias, and Brian Simpson.
We’re also home to Winnipeg’s best nacho platter, and we have a full dinner menu to satisfy any craving you might have.
Got a birthday coming up? Join the Rumor’s birthday club and have your party at Rumor’s. Or take advantage of some of our awesome weekday tickets specials, and make up a reason to celebrate. Either way, we’re here every week ready to laugh.
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