Explore Montreal
Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
Open now · 17:00
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1860 as the Art Association of Montreal and is the oldest art museum in Canada. Its five pavilions on Sherbrooke Street West in the Golden Square Mile hold about 44,000 works, from Quebec and Canadian art and Inuit art to European old masters, decorative arts and design.
Official site
Open now · 12:00
The Musée des Hospitalières de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal is a history museum on Pine Avenue, opened in 1992 beside the Hôtel-Dieu hospital that Jeanne Mance founded in 1642. Archives, objects and art trace the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph and the history of nursing and medicine; the entrance hall holds a 17th-century staircase from the Hôtel-Dieu of La Flèche, France.
Official siteTickets available
Open now · 17:00
Pointe-à-Callière is Montreal's museum of archaeology and history, opened in 1992 in Old Montreal for the city's 350th anniversary on the site of its founding. Below ground, visitors walk through excavated remains such as Fort Ville-Marie, the first Catholic cemetery and an old collector sewer, beside exhibitions on the First Nations and city history.
Official site
Open now · 17:00
Château Ramezay is a stone manor on Notre-Dame Street in Old Montreal, opposite City Hall, built in 1705 as the residence of the governor of Montreal, Claude de Ramezay. It was the first building in Quebec to be classified as a historic monument and now houses a museum of Montreal's history, with the reconstructed Governor's Garden behind it.
Official site
The Biosphère is an environment museum inside the geodesic dome that Buckminster Fuller designed as the United States pavilion for Expo 67, on Saint Helen's Island in Parc Jean-Drapeau. The steel frame is 76 metres across; its acrylic skin burned in 1976. The museum opened in 1995 and presents exhibitions on climate, water and air.
Official site
Open now · 17:00
Exporail, the Canadian Railway Museum, is a railway museum in Saint-Constant, on Montreal's South Shore, founded in 1961 by the Canadian Railroad Historical Association. Its collection of more than 140 locomotives, cars and streetcars fills the Angus Pavilion and an outdoor site; it includes Canadian Pacific 2850, which pulled the 1939 royal train.
Official siteTickets available
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