Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts, Art museum in Sherbrooke, Canada.
The Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Sherbrooke that houses a diverse collection spanning Quebec, Canadian, American, European, and Indigenous artists. The works include paintings, sculptures, and other artistic pieces displayed across different gallery spaces within the building.
The museum is housed in a former bank building constructed between 1874 and 1876 in Second Empire style, originally serving the Eastern Townships Bank. The historic structure was later converted to display art collections and has served the community as a cultural institution since that transition.
The museum's mission ties its collection to the Eastern Townships: works come from or depict that territory, and most are by Quebec and Canadian artists, with American, European and Indigenous art also present. The Coburn collection, including his studio holdings, is the best known; a Serge Lemoyne corpus and a collection of naive art are also kept. Most works arrive as donations.
The museum occupies three gallery rooms, one on each floor of the 1876 former bank building at 241 Dufferin Street in downtown Sherbrooke. The permanent Coburn and LaRochelle display is on the third floor, while the other two rooms host about ten temporary exhibitions a year, so what you see changes often. Check ahead for the current shows before travelling.
The Coburn collection includes the artist's studio holdings, and the museum's permanent third-floor exhibit "Spaces and Landscapes" pairs his work with a contemporary art collection donated by Luc LaRochelle. Coburn, born in Melbourne in the Eastern Townships, is counted among Canada's major 20th-century artists.
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