This is a list of museums in Montreal , in the province of Quebec, Canada. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
Name | Neighbourhood | Borough/City | Type | Summary |
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Artothèque de Montréal | La Petite-Patrie | Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie | Art | contemporary art |
Bank of Montreal Museum | Old Montreal | Ville-Marie | Numismatic | history of the Bank of Montreal, coins |
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec | Quartier Latin | Ville-Marie | Library | Changing exhibits of history and art from its collections |
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada Museum | Quartier des spectacles | Ville-Marie | Military | Regimental history and memorabilia |
Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre | Macdonald Campus | Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue | Aviation | Collection of aircraft and art about aviation |
Canadian Centre for Architecture | Shaughnessy Village | Ville-Marie | Architecture | research centre and museum dedicated to architecture; offers rotating exhibits; building designed by Peter Rose opened in 1989; incorporates Shaughnessy House, an 1874 mansion |
Canadian Guild of Crafts | Golden Square Mile | Ville-Marie | Art | collection and shop of Canadian fine crafts, Inuit and First Nations crafts and sculpture |
Centre d'exposition de l'Université de Montréal | Côte-des-Neiges | Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | Art | contemporary art gallery of the Université de Montréal |
Centre d'histoire de Montréal | Old Montreal | Ville-Marie | History | City history |
Centre Émilie-Gamelin | Bordeaux-Cartierville | Ahuntsic-Cartierville | Religious | located in Bordeaux-Cartierville, life of Roman Catholic nun Émilie Gamelin, and works and history of the Sisters of Providence religious community |
Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur | Quartier Latin | Ville-Marie | Art | art exhibits |
Dufresne-Nincheri Museum | Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | Historic house and artist's studio | 1910s Beaux-Arts style mansion and Nincheri's studio |
Château Ramezay - Musée et site historique de Montréal | Old Montreal | Ville-Marie | History | City history, 18th-century period life |
Cinémathèque québécoise | Quartier Latin | Ville-Marie | Media | Film, television and photography exhibits |
Cité historia, musée d'histoire du Sault-au-Récollet | Sault-au-Récollet | Ahuntsic-Cartierville | Historic house | 18th-century historic house and mill; located in Sault-au-Récollet |
Darling Foundry | Faubourg des Récollets | Ville-Marie | Art | visual arts centre |
DHC/ART | Old Montreal | Ville-Marie | Art | contemporary art gallery |
Dorval Museum of Local History and Heritage | Lakeshore, Dorval | Dorval | History | local history |
Écomusée du fier monde | Gay Village | Montreal | History | Heritage of the industrial and working-class people of south-central Montreal |
Ecomuseum Zoo | Macdonald Campus | Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue | Zoo | Zoo home to live animals native to the Saint Lawrence River valley |
Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site | Lakeshore, Lachine | Lachine | History | Montreal's fur industry |
Galerie de l'UQAM | Quartier Latin | Ville-Marie | Art | contemporary art gallery |
Gallery X | Quartier Concordia | Ville-Marie | Art | Contemporary art gallery of Concordia University |
Lachine Canal National Historic Site | Lakeshore, Lachine | Lachine | Transport | Exhibits at the Lachine Visitor Services Centre about the history and heritage of the canal |
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery | Quartier Concordia | Ville-Marie | Art | part of Concordia University |
Musée des Illusions Montréal (Museum of Illusions Montreal) | Old Montreal | Vieux-Port - Old Port | ||
Maison de Mère d’Youville | Old Montreal | Ville-Marie | Religious | history of the Grey Nuns of Montreal and their founder, Saint Marie-Marguerite d'Youville |
Maison Saint-Gabriel | Pointe-Saint-Charles | Le Sud-Ouest | Historic house | 17th-century period house and gardens, also changing exhibits of decorative arts from its collections |
Marguerite Bourgeoys Museum | Old Montreal | Ville-Marie | Religion | Historic chapel and history of the 17th-century woman who founded it, as well as the city's early religious settlers |
McCord Museum | Downtown Montreal | Ville-Marie | Multiple | Montreal's history and culture, changing exhibits of culture, art and heritage |
Montreal Biodôme | Espace pour la vie | Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | Zoo | Replicas of four ecosystems, with animals and plants |
Montreal Biosphère | Saint Helen's Island | Ville-Marie | Natural history | Ecology, the environment and sustainable living |
Montreal Botanical Garden | Espace pour la vie | Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie | Botanical garden | Thematic gardens and greenhouses |
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre | Côte-des-Neiges | Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | History | Holocaust story and effects of bigotry and hate |
Montreal Insectarium | Espace pour la vie | Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | Natural history | Live insects and insect exhibits |
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | Golden Square Mile | Ville-Marie | Art | Collections include Canadian, Inuit, European, pre-Columbian, African, modern and contemporary art, ancient cultures, decorative arts, Greek and Roman sculptures |
Planetarium | Espace pour la vie | Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | Science | Planetarium |
Montreal Science Centre | Old Port of Montreal | Ville-Marie | Science | Interactive science exhibits |
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal | Quartier des spectacles | Ville-Marie | Art | Contemporary art |
Musée de la police de Montréal | Quartier des spectacles | Ville-Marie | Law enforcement | |
Musée de Lachine | Lakeshore, Lachine | Lachine | Multiple | history exhibits in the 17th-century LeBer-LeMoyne House, sculpture garden, art exhibits; located in Lachine |
Musée des Hospitalières de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal | Pine Avenue | Le Plateau-Mont-Royal | Medical | history of the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, medicine and religious art |
Musée de Paléontologie et de l'Evolution | ??? | ??? | Natural History, mostly Palaeontology | fossil life and geology of Canada |
Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec | Cégep de Saint-Laurent campus | Saint-Laurent | Art | contemporary craft and art |
Musée des ondes Emile Berliner | Saint-Henri | Le Sud-Ouest | Technology | history and development of sound creation, production, reproduction, recording and broadcasting; includes gramophones, phonographs, radios, televisions, sound recording equipment, microphones, records and cylinders |
Musée des pompiers de Montréal | Mile End | Le Plateau-Mont-Royal | Firefighting | |
Musée des Sœurs de Miséricorde | Bordeaux-Cartierville | Ahuntsic-Cartierville | Religious | works of the Misericordia Sisters |
Montreal Video Game Museum | Montreal | Montreal | Technology | history of video games with a focus on the Canadian contribution |
Musée Eudore-Dubeau | Côte-des-Neiges | Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | Medical | part of the University of Montreal, open by appointment, history of dentistry and its teaching in Quebec |
Museum of Fashion | Old Montreal | Ville-Marie | Fashion | devoted to fashion, costume |
Museum of the Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal | Côte-des-Neiges | Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | Art | Features Christian art from Quebec and around the world |
Peter B. Yeomans Cultural Centre | Lakeshore, Dorval | Dorval | Art | art exhibits |
Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History | Old Montreal | Ville-Marie | History | History and archaeology of the city, located in 6 buildings |
Prison-des-Patriotes | Sainte-Marie | Ville-Marie | History | exhibition on the 1837-1838 rebellions in Lower Canada and the Patriote movement |
Redpath Museum of Natural History | McGill University campus | Ville-Marie | Natural history | Part of McGill University |
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Museum | CFB Montreal | Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | Military | regimental history and memorabilia, located in the garrison in Longue-Pointe |
Royal Montreal Regiment Museum | Lower Westmount | Westmount | Military | regimental history and memorabilia of The Royal Montreal Regiment |
SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art | Quartier des spectacles | Ville-Marie | Art | contemporary art |
Sir George-Étienne Cartier National Historic Site | Old Montreal | Ville-Marie | Historic house | 19th-century Victorian period house and life of Sir George-Étienne Cartier |
Sisters of Saint Anne Historic Centre | Lakeshore, Lachine | Lachine | Religious | closed in 2014, history of the convent and its founder |
Stewart Hall Art Gallery | Lakeshore, Pointe-Claire | Pointe-Claire, Quebec | Art | |
Montreal Museums Day (French : Journée des musées montréalais) is an annual event in Montreal. One Sunday every May, more than 30 of the city's largest museums and galleries offer free admission and extended opening hours. [6] To facilitate visitor access to as many museums as possible, the Montreal Transit Corporation provides free shuttle buses.
The first Montreal Museums Day was held in 1987.
The McCord Stewart Museum, formerly known as the McCord Museum of Canadian History, is a public research and teaching museum. The Museum’s Archives, Documentary Art, Dress, Fashion and Textiles, Indigenous Cultures, Material Culture and Photography collections, containing 2.5 million images, objects, documents and works of art, position it as the custodian of a remarkable historical heritage. It is located directly across the street from McGill University, in the downtown core of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté was a French Canadian painter and sculptor. He was one of the first native-born Canadian artists whose works were directly influenced by French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is an art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest art museum in Canada by gallery space. The museum is located on the historic Golden Square Mile stretch of Sherbrooke Street west.
Marc-Aurèle Fortin was a Québécois painter, known best for paintings that convey the charm of small-town Quebec.
The Saint Helen Island Fort, a historic site on Saint Helen's Island in the city of Montreal, Quebec, was constructed in the early 1820s as an arsenal in the defensive chain of forts built to protect Canada from a threat of American invasion. Although not heavily fortified, it served an important purpose as the central artillery depot for all forts west, and in the Richelieu River Valley, known as the Valley of the Forts. These included Fort Henry and Fort Lennox. The red stone used to build the Fort is a breccia quarried on the island, which is situated in the St. Lawrence River between the island of Montreal and the south shore.
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is located in National Battlefields Park and is a complex of four buildings. Three of them were purpose-built for the museum and one was originally a provincial prison.
Bruno Côté was a Canadian landscape painter.
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff was a Canadian art gallery in Montreal, Quebec, which specialized in the purchase and sale of Canadian Art from 1850 on.
Edmond Dyonnet (1859-1954) was a landscape painter, portraitist, photographer and educator. He was born in France and became a naturalised Canadian. He taught numerous students in Quebec, among them A. Y. Jackson, and was an academician and secretary of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1910-1947), author of a history of the Academy with Hugh Jones in 1934, and a charter member of Montreal's Arts Club in 1912.
Samir Sammoun is a Canadian–Lebanese artist and telecommunications engineer.
Jewish Painters of Montreal refers to a group of artists who depicted the social realism of Montreal during the 1930s and 1940s. First used by the media to describe participants of the annual YMHA-YWHA art exhibition, the term was popularized in the 1980s as the artists were exhibited collectively in public galleries across Canada. In 2009 the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec mounted a touring exhibition Jewish Painters of Montreal: A Witness to Their Time, 1930–1948, which renewed interest in the group in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Valentin Gallery is an art gallery in Quebec. Created in 1934, it was first called "L'Art français" and had its start on Laurier Street in Montreal. Owners Lucienne (1900-1992) and Louis (1890-1956) Lange initially showed works by French artists. By the 1940s they were offering art by Marc-Aurèle Fortin and Philip Surrey. In 1975, Jean-Pierre Valentin purchased the gallery. The gallery moved to its present Sherbrooke Street location later and changed the name to Valentin Gallery.
Peter Krausz is a Romanian-born Canadian artist. Throughout his career, he worked within the fields of painting, drawing, installation, and photography and, since 1970, exhibited in museums and galleries across Canada, the United States, and Europe. He is best known for large-scale landscape paintings of the Mediterranean.
Henri Beau was a French-Canadian Impressionist painter. He is noted for Chemin en été, La dispersion des Acadiens, L'arrivée de Champlain à Québec, and Les Noces de Cana. Beau is a largely forgotten artist due to his long absence from Canada. His widow Marie Beau worked towards establishing his reputation as an artist in Canada after his death. He was only recognized as a notable artist decades later, with major retrospectives of his paintings celebrating his career by the Galerie Bernard Desroches in Montréal in 1974, and at the Musée du Québec in Québec City in 1987.
Alan Klinkhoff Gallery is a Canadian fine art corporation located in Montreal and Toronto. A member of the Art Dealers Association of Canada, the firm provides acquisition and evaluation services for collectors, as well as exhibitions and sales of Canadian art by such artists as Paul-Émile Borduas, Emily Carr, Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Jean Paul Lemieux, David Milne, Robert Pilot, and Marc-Aurèle Suzor-Côté. Alan Klinkhoff, a frequent commenter on Canadian art and art market, is quoted in the Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Financial Post, The New York Times, and on CBC Television. The gallery, a successor to Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, is known for museum-quality, non-sale exhibitions of important Canadian painters.
Monique "Mo" Harvey (1950–2001) was a Canadian painter who lived and worked in Montreal, Quebec.
Clara Gutsche is a Canadian photographer, educator and art critic living and working in Montreal, Quebec.
Karen Tam is a Canadian artist and curator who focuses on the constructions and imaginations of cultures and communities through installations in which she recreates Chinese restaurants, karaoke lounges, opium dens, curio shops and other sites of cultural encounters. She is based in Montreal, Quebec.
Alexander Bercovitch was a painter, set designer and teacher, known for his lively picturing and Expressionist intensity of colour. He was an important part of the art scene in Montreal in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as a founding member of the Eastern Group of Painters in 1938 and the Contemporary Arts Society in 1939.