Holiday Activities

View Museum Hours during the Holidays

Christmas Tree Display

The Museum’s traditional Christmas tree display will be on view from November 23, 2007, to January 6, 2008. Over thirty-five trees decorated by volunteers from a variety of associations and ethnic groups will be presented in the Decorative Arts Gallery of the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion.

Family Sunday: Spotlight on Ritual Objects

On December 9, from 1 to 4 p.m., there are family activities that focus on world cultures:

Art workshop : creation of a box of secrets in clay – 1, 2 and 3 p.m. (bilingual)
Tour-in-a-Wink: A Taste of Asia and Pre-Columbian Civilizations – in French at 1, 2 and 3 p.m., in English at 1 and 2 p.m.
Family Takeaway: Feathers, Fur and Scales – a gallery game featuring animals represented in ritual objects (available in English and French)

The programme and passes are available in the Lobby of the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion starting at 12.30 p.m.

In the StudiO: The Expo-workshop A Whole World of Human Beings

Saturdays and Sundays, from 1 to 4 p.m., the expo-workshop is devoted to the artistic representation of the human body through the observation of works in the collection. At the entrance to the StudiO, you can also pick up a Family Takeaway, a gallery game that is fun for all ages.

Exhibitions: free admission for all visitors at all times

Callot and His Age (until January 27)
All for Art! Our Great Private Collectors Share Their Works (until February 24)

The Museum’s collection

Discover great masterpieces by Renoir, Monet, Rodin, Rembrandt, Matisse, Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Degas, Riopelle, Borduas and dozens of others.

Don’t miss the Cirque du Soleil’s collection of African art, the new space devoted to the works of Marc-Aurèle Fortin and one of the largest collections of decorative arts in North America.