Montreal's museums

The Biodôme will be closing temporarily in 2018. When it reopens, it will be completely transformed, offering new and innovative museum experiences.

Planned reopening: July 2019

Canada’s largest museum in a hospital presents the story of the Shriners Masonic fraternity and their Montréal hospital, one of Canada’s leading pediatric care and research centres since 1925.

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.

In a building featuring a daring design, awarded with LEED Platinum certification, enjoy an immersive experience of the Universe, with two complementary shows and cutting-edge 360° domes! Let yourself be whisked off to the very limits of outer space, and don’t miss the digital interactive exhibition.

$8 THURSDAY EVENINGS: Starting at 5:30 p.m., get a special deal on either of the double features at the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium.

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 Guild, 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, The Guild 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, beside the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Guild Gallery offers all of their customers high quality contemporary art.

Montreal’s portal to its past, the Château Ramezay, was the first building in Québec to be classified an historic monument. Chosen as one of the 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die, the Château invites you to relive more than 500 years of history through its exhibits, its multimedia circuit (in six languages) and its French colonial garden.

The largest military museum on Montréal Island, with an impressive collection of over 13,000 artifacts illustrating the history of logistics of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Navy.