Whether you are looking to develop your taste for art, discover our collective heritage or learn more on science and technology, Quebec’s museums and interpretation centres are true treasures of knowledge and learning.
Summer in Quebec therefore offers you a thematic section entirely dedicated to the numerous museums and interpretation centres of the province which will definitely enhance your vacation and leisure times this summer.
Enjoy your visit!
Discover Musée de la mémoire vivante in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli which uses various ways to keep a record of each and everyone’s recollections.
Come discover La Vieille École which presents you an exhibition on the life and work of Gilles Vigneault, the famous poet from Natashquan.
Discover the world of copper with a large interactive exhibition at the Copper Interpretation Centre in Murdochville, Gaspésie.
From June 20 to September 12, 2010, Musée acadien du Québec à Bonaventure offers you a whole new exhibition to highlight the 250 years of the city of Bonaventure.
Site Historique et Archéologique de Pabos offers you to relive the daily labours of our ancestors from the remains and vestiges collected during the excavation campaigns.
Come visit Moulin Grenier, a mill built in 1820, listed as a historic monument, which features an original mechanism still in excellent condition.
Located in the heart of the Lanaudière region, Musée d’art de Joliette makes you discover close to 9,000 works of former and contemporary artists from Quebec, Canada and around the world.
Come discover or relive the feats of Gilles Villeneuve as well as a large part of Quebec’s auto racing history at the Gilles-Villeneuve museum in Berthierville.
Come and discover an atmosphere combining architectural heritage and contemporary art at Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides.
Located in Laval, Centre d’interprétation de l’eau makes you discover the numerous issues related to drinking water with the help of games, artefacts as well as clear scientific information.
Explore the many sides of Quebec’s popular culture by visiting Musée québécois de culture populaire.
Come in the heart of 15th-century Iroquois land and discover its fascinating history at the Tsiionhiakwatha/Droulers archaeological Site Interpretation Center.
Come and discover the exclusive glass products of Studio des Verriers du Richelieu in the Montérégie region.
Only Anglo-Saxon mill in Québec, the Fleming Mill makes you discover the historical and socio-economic contexts of the early 19th century.
Preserving the legacy of social, cultural and artistic lifestyles of over 2000 years, Musée de Lachine combines ethnological objects with contemporary art.
This summer, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts offers you among other things a new exhibition presenting the life and career of the great jazzman Miles Davis.
This summer, Château Ramezay Museum invites you to its appetizing new exhibition, “Let’s Eat!” which makes you discover different facets of Quebec’s culinary culture.
This summer, discover Cirque du Soleil from frills to thrills with the exhibition Dream Weavers, Costumes by Cirque du Soleil presented at the McCord Museum.
Musée des Hospitalières de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal makes you discover the hospital and religious heritage of the Hospitallers of St. Joseph religious congregation.
A true architectural jewel, the Canadian Museum of Civilization invites you to come discover history from here and elsewhere as well as the wealth of Canada’s culture through 1,000 years of history.
Corporation du patrimoine et du tourisme religieux de Québec helps you discover Quebec City’s great religious heritage with tailor-made tours, a guide on Quebec City’s religious heritage and visits of the Basilica Cathedral.
Located at Île d’Orléans’ entrance, Espace Félix-Leclerc is a place of memory, learning and dissemination paying a moving tribute to the great life and career of Félix Leclerc.
Built more than 200 years ago as the city’s first prison, the Morrin Centre is now a fabulous heritage site which offers you to come discover its treasures.
Musée Bon-Pasteur invites you to come discover the moving story of the Good Shepherd Sisters of Quebec, a Congregation which played a great role in Quebec’s development.
From May 27 to September 6, 2010, step back into the Victorian era, an age of splendour and change, at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
Located in La Doré, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Moulin des Pionnier is one of the last water-driven sawmills still in operation since 1889.
Discover how water took part in the development of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean with L'Odyssée des Bâtisseurs theme park located in Alma.