MML has had the desire to build a Métis Cultural Centre. There have been several attempts to have conceptual designs developed, with minimal success. There have been two feasibility studies conducted, one in 2007 and another in 2017 on the viability of a cultural center. As well, as to determine what the community wants in their cultural center. The drive to build a cultural center is getting closer as potential funding is pursued with vigor. In these feasibility studies, the members shared their history, their knowledge, their traditional practices, their interests, and their hopes about what message they wanted to leave for their grandchildren and the public about who they are as Métis. Considering all the input from its board, members and staff, this center will be multifaceted to meet the needs of the Métis community. It will showcase its culture through a Museum, highlighting the history and life of the Métis in this region now known as Wood Buffalo. It will house artifacts and stories of their ancestors and existing members, it will be a gathering place, a place of learning, a place to join together and have fun, it will be a place to share with the world who the Métis are, and clarify the Métis culture that evolved over the past 300 years. This will be a place of conducting MML business, a place where people can support and assist one another. It will be able to accommodate large meetings for the public; it should be a world class facility. It will have offices and other facilities that meet the needs of the whole community.
Civil Design Work will include planning, creating, testing, assessing assets, civil sources and needs, determining the requirements for the facility. In conjunction with the development and building permit requirements, the successful Proponent will be expected to develop a full design requirement for the facility.
