National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec

The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (National Fine Arts Museum) is located in the Plains of Abraham in Quebec's Battlefield's Park. It is the only museum entirely dedicated to Quebec art including an exclusive exhibition on Inuit art. The urban park in which the museum if located is one of the most marvelous in the world. With 108 hectares of plains, wooded areas and gardens it is a green oasis in the heart of the city. Visited each year by thousands of residents and visitors., the back of the Musem provides a magnificent view of the park and the St. Lawrence River. The museum complex made up of four buildings, the Gérard-Morisset Pavilion, the Charles Baillairgé Pavilion, the Pierre Lassonde Pavilion, and the Central Pavilion/Grand Hall. A tunnel network connects the pavilions. The Pierre Lassonde pavilion, located on the marvellous Grande Allée, is the gateway to the Museum. It includes the ticket counter, cloakroom, boutique and café. The building’s architecture is harmoniously tiered with generous exhibition spaces: six exhibition galleries for the display of post-1960 collections, two temporary exhibition galleries and four permanent exhibition galleries (Contemporary art, Us, Inuit art and Decorative arts and design) and Jean Paul Riopelle's monumental fresco "Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg". The building is a powerful architectural statement covered entirely in glass. The standard MNBAQ Collections include; Us, Inuit Art The Brousseau Collection, Illipunga, Decorative Arts and Design in Québec, Contemporary Art in Québec, Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg from Jean Paul Riopelle. Blockbuster exhibitions : June 20, 2024 - January 5, 2025 : Helen McNicoll The Helen McNicoll: Travel Impressions exhibition explores the works of an artist little-known to the public whose relationship with the world and artistic output were influenced by fledgling tourism. February 13, 2025 - April 21, 2025 : The MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award 2025 The MNBAQ and the Fondation du MNBAQ, in collaboration with the RBC Foundation, are proud to contribute to the recognition and effervescence of the Québec contemporary art scene and have announced the five new recipients of the MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award: Eruoma Awashish, Rémi Belliveau, Michelle Lacombe, Anne-Marie Proulx, and Santiago Tamayo Soler October 17, 2024 - April 21, 2025 : Early Days Early Days is the first exhibition of Canadian Indigenous art to circulate on the international scene. The MNBAQ will host its exclusive Québec engagement in the fall of 2024. Early Days will showcase the diversity and vitality of Indigenous art in Canada.

Montcalm and Saint-Jean-Baptiste are, along with Parliament Hill, the Upper Town neighborhoods just west of the Old Town fortifications. Historically, Saint-Jean Baptiste was a working-class district and Montcalm reserved for the elite. Located next to each other, many elements of the past still linger, but today they are both bustling urban neighborhoods where people from all walks of life mingle. In the past few years, Montcalm has rebranded itself as the Arts District. This visit will give you the pulse of Quebec City’s urban fabric and present the two neighborhoods’ architectural, social, and cultural richness that leaves no one indifferent. In a typical two-and-a-half hour tour, we will pass by Battlefields Park (Plains of Abraham), fine arts museum and its flagship fresco "Tribute to Rosa Luxembourg," Cartier Avenue and the surrounding streets, the bourgeois houses of Grande-Allée, Joan of Arc Garden, the Grand Théâtre de Québec, Parc de l'Amérique française, Place de l'Acadie, the former Jeffery Hale Hospital, the former Ohev Sholem Synagogue (now Théatre du Périscope), Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church, Martello Tower 4, Saint-Jean Street and the surrounding streets, and the former St. Matthew’s Anglican Church (now the Claire-Martin library) and its historic cemetery.