Écomusée du fier monde, Social history museum in Centre-Sud, Montreal, Canada.
The Écomusée du fier monde occupies the former Généreux public bath, an Art Deco building from the 1920s designed by architect Jean-Omer Marchand and modelled on the Parisian Piscine de la Butte-aux-Cailles. Since 1996 it has housed a history and community ecomuseum devoted to the industrial and working-class past of Centre-Sud, at 2050 Atateken Street.
The building started as a public bath house built in the 1920s to serve factory workers living in this industrial neighborhood. It later became a museum to preserve and share the stories of working-class Montrealers.
The exhibitions tell stories of factory workers and their families who lived in this neighborhood, showing personal belongings and everyday experiences. Visitors see how people organized themselves and built community bonds during Montreal's industrial boom years.
The museum is at 2050 Atateken Street in the Ville-Marie borough, in the Centre-Sud area. The entrance is in the former Généreux public bath, an Art Deco building from the 1920s. Allow about an hour for the permanent exhibition on working-class Montreal and the temporary shows.
The Généreux Bath was modelled on the Parisian Piscine de la Butte-aux-Cailles, a detail of its 1920s design by architect Jean-Omer Marchand. Since 2007 the museum has awarded the Ordre du fier monde each year to people or organisations that helped develop it, among them anthropologist Francine Saillant and the UQAM Faculty of Arts.
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