The best museums Quebec

The best meets the worst in this alley where artists exhibit year-round and where passers-by, in high season, is struggling to take a path. The street bears its name in a building where the settlers of the French regime were going to pay their royalty to the Royal Treasury.

If you have a bit of time, take a tour at the Nature Museum of Agnès Villeneuve, where you can find a bric of curiosités curiosities in the midst of beautiful naturalized specimens of local wildlife.

The permanent exhibition Entre résistance armée et insurrection (Between Armed Resistance and Insurrection ) looks at the Patriotes' struggle led by Louis-Joseph Papineau and the battles of Saint-Denis, Saint-Charles and Saint-Eustache. Workshops, outdoor tours, guided tours, cultural programming, lectures, films and special events are also offered on site. Find out more about the La-Prison-des-Patriotes heritage site (in Montreal, opening hours vary according to season).

He contributed to the development of the city and played a vital role until the end of the th century. It offers a modern complex, the Agora (1980), comprising an amphitheatre and a shopping centre, as well as an interpretation centre for the Old Port-de-Québec (100 rue Saint-André) which highlights the dominant role of the port in the th century.

The museum offers more than 10 thematic exhibitions at a time. It is organized into two sections: " Objects of Civilization " (furniture, tools, Quebec costumes) and" Memories " (four centuries of history and culture).

The Quebec City seminar is Canada's oldest higher education institution. The Museum of French America presents unique collections in the tradition of the th and th centuries university museums: European, religious and secular paintings, liturgical objects…

The oldest basilica of the part of the American continent in northern Mexico, a cathedral since the end of the th century, the masterpiece of the Baillairgé family, is rich in art.

Permanent collections of Quebec art and temporary exhibitions devoted to an artist, theme or time. The Musée du Québec houses the Museum of National Art and the largest selection of works produced in Quebec since the th century.

This new museum and civic space replaces the Centre d'histoire de Montréal, which was located in Old Montreal. Its mission is to showcase Montreal's diverse identities through the testimonies of the city's various communities. At the time of writing, the Centre was in the first phase of opening, with a permanent exhibition scheduled for 2024. On-site coffee shop.

This museum has a collection of over 160 railway vehicles. It's over half a century of railway history that you cross through this exhibition on the era of giant locomotives, monumental constructions, the extension of the industrial revolution in Canada, from sea to sea. A locomotive and tramway drive on the ground, with the great pleasure of children, and an ancestral railway station will revive the beautiful period of the th century.

Housed in the former head office of the Eastern Township Bank, the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke focuses primarily on the works of artists from the Eastern Townships region, without neglecting a national and international component, particularly in naive art. The permanent exhibition Couleurs Manifestes presents "the interpellative power, the transmission of meaning and the symbolism of colour, as seen through some fifty works from the museum's collection".

The craftsmen manufacture a fine paper of cotton, impregnated with leaves or flowers from the region. Canada Paper Economuseum company, thanks to its workshop, museum and shop.

Amerindian and Inuit works of art from the museum's private collection and pottery and painting workshops upon request. Traditional bread oven on site (possible tasting).

The museum offers a journey back in time that allows you to relive the development of Sherbrooke, from its colonization to the present day. Its permanent exhibition, Sherbrooke Memories, allows visitors to discover the history of the city through the testimonies of people who have contributed to its development over the past two centuries. Services and activities: two exhibition rooms, private archive service, general public activities, workshops and conferences.