[7] The village features a large collection of original Mennonite architecture, including housebarns, churches, schools, stores, a sod hut (or semlin) and other buildings, some of which date back to the 1800s.

[10] The outdoor village also displays a section of the Berlin Wall, the original sawmill used by Mennonite Conscientious Objectors during their Alternative Service in World War II, and two important monuments originally erected in Ukraine to commemorate the centennial of Chortitza and honour the two Mennonite leaders, Jacob Hoeppner and Johann Bartsch, who chose the site and accompanied the first colonists.

In 2018, a statue of Anabaptist martyr Dirk Willems by sculptor Peter Sawatzky was unveiled on the grounds of the museum.

The Mennonite Heritage Village is mentioned in Miriam Toews's novel A Complicated Kindness, where the main character Nomi Nickel is a volunteer at the museum and accidentally sets her bonnet on fire.

[13] The museum has also been mentioned on author Andrew Unger's Mennonite satire website The Daily Bonnet, including the website's very first article "Steinbach City Council Approves Plan to Move Entire Population to Mennonite Heritage Village" and included in the collection The Best of the Bonnet.