Montreal Botanical Garden
Born in the Depression and now a National Historic Site, this 75-hectare garden is where Montrealers come simply to sit under trees.
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One of the most important botanical gardens in the world by the extent of its collections and facilities, with a greenhouse complex open year-round and a live butterfly exhibit running indoors every February through April. The grounds also host the Montreal Insectarium and a botanical research institution, all facing the Olympic Stadium.
What to look for
- The Art Deco administration building designed by architect Lucien F. Kéroack
- Live butterflies inside the greenhouses during the Butterflies Go Free exhibit (February–April)
- The view of Montreal's Olympic Stadium directly across from the garden entrance on Sherbrooke Street East
Take the metro to Pie-IX (corner of the Olympic Stadium). Outdoor gardens are snow-covered from roughly November to April; greenhouses stay open to visitors year-round.
Montreal Botanical Garden is one of 14 sights worth the detour in Montreal, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Montreal pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Montreal
- Circuit Gilles VilleneuveThe track where Gilles Villeneuve beat the world on home soil in 1978 — and it now carries his name.
- Olympic StadiumThe stadium that cost so much, Montreal renamed it "The Big Owe."
- Bell CentreCanada's largest indoor arena holds 20,962 people — and on a Canadiens night, the noise travels several city blocks.
- Habitat 67A McGill thesis project that actually got built — 354 prefabricated concrete boxes stacked into homes on the Saint Lawrence for a 1967 World's Fair.
- Notre-Dame BasilicaDeep blue vaults scattered with gold stars, and a 7,000-pipe organ that fills every corner of it.
- Montreal Museum of Fine ArtsCanada's oldest art museum, founded in 1860, now sprawls across five pavilions and draws more visitors than any other art museum in the country.