City: Ville-Marie
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What to do and see in Ville-Marie, Canada: The Best Art Museums
Montreal, c’est si bon! This French-speaking city is considered the cultural capital of Canada, and is a cosmopolitan celebration of Québécois style. A horse-drawn carriage ride around the cobblestone streets and grand buildings of Vieux-Montréal will give you a taste of European flavor. The Basilique Notre-Dame is a confection of stained glass, and the Plateau Mont-Royal district will delight you with its quaint boutiques and cafés. Dig in to a massive plate of poutine to fuel up for a tour of the epic Olympic Park.
Restaurants in Montreal
1. La Guilde
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5.0 based on 13 reviews
La Guilde, historical gallery and museum institution of Canadian art, has been preserving, promoting and encouraging fine crafts for more than one hundred years. Specializing in Inuit and First Nations art, La Guilde is a non-profit organization that is comprised of a permanent collection, one of the most influential in Canada, historically and culturally rich archives, an educational program with a broad outreach, and a gallery which draws together works by renowned and emerging artists. Situated in downtown Montreal, near the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, La Guilde's Gallery offers all of its customers high quality contemporary art.
2. Espace Culturel Ashukan
3. Musee Rene Gagnon
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5.0 based on 8 reviews
Rene Gagnon has exposed all over the world...New York,USA Paris, France, The Far East (Hong Kong, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur)... He paints the nature of Quebec and the far North. His medium is oil on panel...and at 89, he is still very active...we are two steps from Notre Basilica...if you are into landscapes...you have to pay a visit!!
4. Lazuli Kanata
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5.0 based on 2 reviews
Lazuli Kanata is specialized in selling contemporary art, jewelry, crafts, gifts and souvenirs made by local artisans. Unique pieces * Canadian culture * Variety
5. OASIS immersion
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
A new immersive experience at the Palais des congrès de Montréal ! One of Canada’s Largest Indoor Immersive Destination : located on the ground floor of Palais des congrès de Montréal in a 2,000 m2 space, OASIS immersion™ is a walkable, no contact experience featuring 3 immersive galleries, 2 dazzling light installations and a lounge area with café and boutique.
6. Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
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4.5 based on 4,492 reviews
The MMFA is one of Canada’s most visited museums and the eighth-most visited museum in North America, boasting more than 1.3 million visitors. The MMFA's original temporary exhibitions combine various artistic disciplines – fine arts, music, film, fashion and design – and are exported around the world. Its rich encyclopedic collection, distributed among five pavilions, includes international art, world cultures, decorative arts and design, and Quebec and Canadian art. The Museum has seen exceptional growth in recent years with the addition of two new pavilions: the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion, in 2011, and the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace, in 2016. The MMFA complex includes Bourgie Hall, a 460-seat concert hall. The Museum also houses the Michel de la Chenelière International Atelier for Education and Art Therapy, the largest educational complex in a North American art museum, enabling the MMFA to offer innovative educational, wellness and art therapy programmes
Reviewed By David-KevinB - Washington DC, United States
Located in a historic section of Rue Sherbrooke known as the Golden Square Mile, the Musée des Beaux-Arts Montreal, or Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, is the city's largest and one of the most widely regarded in Canada, if not all of North America. Adjacent to the building is the Avenue du Musée, a public street that is sometimes the site of large-scale art installations. The campus is composed of a number of pavilions, each one dedicated to specific disciplines, i.e., ancient art; archaeology; decorative arts and design; modern and contemporary art; and Quebec and Canadian art.
7. Phi Centre
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4.5 based on 44 reviews
Dedicated to art in all its forms, Phi is a multidisciplinary arts and culture organization that cultivates all aspects of creation, development, production and dissemination. Phi is at the intersection of art, film, music, design and technology. Through eclectic programming and a strong emphasis on content creation, Phi fosters unexpected encounters between artists and audiences. Headquartered at the Phi Centre in Montreal Canada, Phi was created by Director and Founder Phoebe Greenberg.
Reviewed By 602claudea - Candiac, Canada
We went to see the immersive VR theatrical experience The Horrifically Real Virtuality and loved it. Hard to find the words to describe. The centre is really progressive and high tech. Love how the programme is different and experimental but with a trendy twist. Try it.
8. McCord Museum
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4.0 based on 327 reviews
The McCord Museum is home to one of the largest historical collections in North America (more than 1.4 million artefacts), consisting of First Peoples objects, costumes and textiles, photographs, decorative and visual artworks, and textual archives. It produces exciting exhibitions that engage visitors by offering them a contemporary look at the world.
Reviewed By J--Harpswell - Harpswell, United States
After a disappointing visit to the archeological museum at Pointe a Calliere yesterday, we were ready for something better — and we found it at the McCord. Easy to reach via the Metro, the museum was such a pleasure from the beginning to the end of our visit. The exhibition of First Peoples clothing and other cultural objects was superb — a good size to cover, beautiful artifacts, clear narrative. The temporary exhibit of clothing designer Jean-Claude Poitras was also quite good. The museum is well designed architecturally, easy and comfortable to move through. The bistro provides very good food and service. Only the shop was less interesting than we expected. Worth a visit, without doubt!
9. Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal
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4.0 based on 380 reviews
A major Canadian institution dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) is located in the heart of the Quartier des spectacles and at the site of Place des Arts.
Reviewed By Frank-in-SF - San Francisco, United States
I have visited this museum a number of times on past trips to Montreal. I have always found it worthy of a short visit of about half a day, which was also the case on this most recent visit. I had flown into Montreal that day, so the number of things I could do with the short time I had left for exploring made a visit during the museum's evening hours (until 9:00pm) a very good choice. The low senior and student rates also rendered the limited time frame less of a concern. All of the current exhibitions are quite interesting. The Francis Alÿs videos of children's games are thought-provoking. Their universality is very apparent. I did find the video of the children pulling off grasshoppers' legs to be upsetting. I enjoyed the 1980s art of "Painting Nature With a Mirror," and the political content and unusual technique of William Kentridge's "Second Hand Reading" is quite engrossing. I enjoyed seeing the stylistic evolution of Janet Werner over the course of her career as well as the work of Luis Jacob and Serge Tousignant, particularly the colorful sculptures. The exhibit "Bleu de bleu" gave me some insight into a large work of Montreal public art, which I'd previously had no idea existed, in a visually compelling manner. The Gisele Amantea exhibit was even more "site specific," taking the MAC building itself and reimagining it as a gorgeous ruin. This was a great visit and I look forward to many more.
10. Musee Marc-Aurele Fortin
This museum displays the work of Marc-Aurèle Fortin, who painted the Quebec landscape with watercolors, and also includes a collection of temporary exhibits by other local painters.
