Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Art museum in Montreal, Canada
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts occupies five pavilions on both sides of Sherbrooke Street West, with 53,095 square metres of floor space and 13,000 square metres of galleries. Its 1912 Beaux-Arts building has a light grey stone facade inscribed with the museum's name, six fluted Ionic columns, three arched oak doorways and a long stone stairway. The 1976 Stewart Pavilion behind it is a concrete modernist structure.
Founded in 1860, the museum began in a room at Phillips Square and moved to its current location on Sherbrooke Street West in 1912, where a building in the Beaux-Arts style was erected. Over the decades the site expanded through the construction of additional pavilions that blend modern and historic architecture.
The name comes from the Art Association of Montreal, founded on 23 April 1860 by Anglican bishop Francis Fulford and photographer William Notman to encourage appreciation of fine arts in the city. The association was renamed the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1949. The 1912 Sherbrooke Street facade carries bas-reliefs on themes of art and massive oak entrance doors.
The museum opens Wednesday through Sunday between 10:00 and 17:00, and all pavilions are accessible to wheelchairs. The nearest metro station is Guy-Concordia, from which you can reach the main entrance in a few minutes on foot.
The Bourgie Hall, a concert hall within the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion, connects music and visual arts through regular performances that visitors can experience during their visit. The hall sits beside the galleries and allows sound and image to come together in one place.
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