Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal

The Oldest Art Museum In Canada, Founded 1860; Five Connected Pavilions On And Around Sherbrooke Street Holding Roughly 45,000 Works, With The Permanent Collection Free To Visitors Under 21 · Montreal, Quebec

The Musee des beaux-arts is THE OLDEST ART MUSEUM IN CANADA, founded in 1860 by a group of Montreal collectors, and it has since spread into FIVE CONNECTED PAVILIONS that run along and under Sherbrooke Street - so the building itself is a walk, crossing beneath the road through a tunnel hung with art. The collection runs to roughly forty-five thousand works and its real strength is CANADIAN AND QUEBEC ART, which is displayed in depth rather than as a national footnote: Riopelle, Borduas and the Automatistes, Krieghoff, the Group of Seven, and Inuit work. There is also a serious international holding, decorative arts, and a pavilion given to peace and to art therapy, which is unusual and is meant seriously. THE PERMANENT COLLECTION IS FREE TO ANYONE UNDER 21, and reduced for everyone on Wednesday evenings - facts the museum does not shout about.

1380 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

OPEN MOST OF THE WEEK WITH ONE CLOSED DAY - typically MONDAY, though the museum has opened on Mondays in summer, so CONFIRM before travelling. WEDNESDAY EVENINGS RUN LATE and have carried a reduced rate on the permanent collection. THE PERMANENT COLLECTION IS FREE FOR VISITORS UNDER 21 and has been reduced or free for under-30s on certain days - ask at the desk rather than assuming, because these arrangements change and are not advertised loudly. GENERAL ADMISSION FOR ADULTS HAS RUN ROUGHLY CAD 24-30, with MAJOR TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS TICKETED SEPARATELY AND TIMED - those do sell out at weekends and should be booked online. The pavilions connect underground, so the whole museum is walkable in winter without going outside. Guy-Concordia and Peel metro stations are both a short walk.

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