Volunteers who work at a downtown Winnipeg museum say they're afraid the establishment may be closing its doors for good.

The Dalnavert Museum closed abruptly just before Labour Day.

Little information has be provided on the closure, but volunteers said they believe it may be money related.

"We're losing a part of Winnipeg's history that we just can't get back," said Venessa Warne, who has been volunteering at the museum for the past three years. "If this place becomes a dentist's office, we lose a part of our history, and we lose an important educational resource."

The Dalnavert is a designated National Historic Site of Canada and the home of former Manitoba Premier Sir Hugh John MacDonald, who was the son of Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.

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Over the course of a week, the NCALM and University of Houston engineers flew over 60 square miles of forest and at the end of each day, their findings were sent to Bill Carter, a University of Houston engineer who works with the NCLAM who was the first to discover these apparent ruins.

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