Montreal's museums

This museum tells the fascinating tale of Montréal’s birth and the founding of the Hôtel-Dieu hospital by Jeanne Mance, Canada’s first secular nurse. Learn about the Hospitallers of St. Joseph and how they cared for the sick. You’ll come away with admiration for a group of women who had a profound influence on the development of health care in Montréal.

The Lethbridge exhibition centre, devoted to the visual arts, opened in 2013. It presents temporary exhibitions giving visitors privileged access to up-and-coming contemporary artists from Montréal and elsewhere. Guided tours and workshops are also offered.

The Avataq Cultural Institute preserves and celebrates the Inuktitut language and contemporary Inuit culture of Nunavik, with artworks and documentary, photographic and audiovisual archives as well as pieces from Nunavik’s archaeological and material culture.

The Centre specializes in preserving and promoting the intangible heritage of Quebec and Canadian folk arts and traditions, including those of the First Nations and ethnic communities.

The CCA is an international research institution founded in 1979 with the conviction that architecture is of public interest.

Established in 2007, the Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain, formerly known as DHC/ART, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art. Housed in two heritage buildings located in the heart of Old Montreal, its programming has met with critical acclaim both at home and around the world. Each year, the Fondation Phi presents two to three major exhibitions, a series of public events, special collaborative projects and a forward-thinking education program.

Numerous parks over a distance of 4 km
Art and nature intertwine along the shores of the Saint-Louis Lake.

This sumptuous residence, classified rare historic monument in the East of the metropolis, plunges us into the beginning of the 20th century’s atmosphere of prosperity. Its architecture, interior decoration and domestic installations testify to an influential and avant-garde Francophone bourgeoisie whose actions on the development of Montreal were important.