News November 29 2011

2012 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Montreal, November 29, 2011 – In 2012, programming at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts(MMFA) will be extraordinarily rich in terms of both exhibitions and collections. The Museum will feature the only Canadian presentations of three major exhibitions and will continue to implement activities revolving around the newly reinstalled collections in its expanded gallery spaces. The 4,000 restored, researched and reinstalled works of this encyclopedic collection, unique in Canada, are being presented in new layouts, in clear and consistent circuits in each of the four pavilions.

News November 2 2011

Dorothea Rockburne: First Canadian Retrospective

Montreal, November 2, 2011 – From November 6, 2011 to April 8, 2012, the MMFA is presenting Dorothea Rockburne. In My Mind's Eye Comprising over fifty works, it is the first Canadian retrospective of this internationally famous artist, one of the leading figures of Post-minimalism.

News October 26 2011

News September 26 2011

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Quebec's premier museum

Montreal, September 26, 2011 – With the opening of the new Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art, the inauguration of a new concert hall, the unveiling of a pavilion devoted exclusively to the decorative arts and design and the reinstallation of all the collections of international art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts becomes Quebec's premier museum, both for the scope of its collections and its size. Quebecers will have free access at all times to an encyclopedic collection unique in Canada and one of the largest in North America.

News July 27 2011

The fashion world of Jean-Paul Gaultier

Montreal, July 27, 2011 – In just a few weeks, the exhibition The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk has already drawn 60,000 visitors, attracted by the great couturier's extraordinary creativity and the exhibition's audaciously innovative design, which have garnered high praise from around the world.

News June 14 2011

The fashion world of Jean-Paul Gaultier

Montreal, June 14, 2011 –  The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts develops and produces the first international exhibition devoted to the celebrated couturier.

News April 29 2011

For the first time in its history

Friday, April 29, 2011 – It was with great pride that the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) welcomed its 50,000th Museum VIP (member). It is the first time this level of membership has been reached in the Museum's 150‐year history.

News April 4 2011

A new exhibition from a major Montreal collection in the museum's graphic arts centre

Montreal, April 4, 2011 – From April 5 to August 21, 2011, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present Five Centuries of European Prints from Print Collection of Drs. Jonathan Meakins and Jacqueline McClaran: The Physicians'Eye. A selection of some 80 works from this outstanding Montreal masterprints collection will be on view in the Museum's Graphic Arts Centre of the Jean‐Noël Desmarais Pavilion. Admission is free at all times.

News March 2 2011

A new exhibition in the contemporary arts square

Montreal, March 2, 2011 – In connection with the exhibition The Warrior Emperor and China's Terracotta Army, the Museum presents, from March 3 to June 19, 2011, a group of contemporary Chinese artworks from Montreal collections, including its own, which includes a recent gift for the Museum's 150th anniversary from J.-Serge Sasseville, to whom the Museum extends its thanks. Red Flag, Contemporary Chinese Art in Montreal Collection is the first exhibition by a Quebec museum devoted to the recent explosion of Chinese art, which constitutes one of the most remarkable phenomenons on the global art scene in the past ten years. The admission to the exhibition is free at all times.