Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Canada's oldest art museum, founded in 1860, now sprawls across five pavilions and draws more visitors than any other art museum in the country.
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The MMFA is Canada's largest art museum by gallery space, with 13,000 square metres of exhibition area and a permanent collection of around 44,000 works. Its campus on the Golden Square Mile stretch of Sherbrooke Street West ranks it among the top 20 art museums in North America by size.
What to look for
- The five-pavilion campus — the 2016 Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace is the newest addition
- The permanent collection, which held roughly 44,000 works as of 2013
- The museum library, descended from the Art Association of Montreal's original reading room — the oldest art library in Canada
Located on Sherbrooke Street West in the Golden Square Mile; the museum spans multiple connected buildings so allow time to move between pavilions.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 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 City HallThe balcony where Charles de Gaulle delivered his "Vive le Québec libre" speech in 1967.