Museum's Archives

Museum's Archives
The Archives Department of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was established in 1991. Its activities are as follows :

Registration
As a repository for official Museum records, the Archives Department is responsible for registering all the works of art that come to the Museum for various reasons: as possible acquisitions, for temporary exhibitions, as loans to the permanent collection, and for study. The Archives Department also registers and co-ordinates the loan of works from the Museum's collection to other institutions, both in Canada and abroad.

Computerized Documentation
The Archives Department manages the database on works in the permanent collection. In addition to giving researchers ready access to information and images, the database permits information input to other public databases to share knowledge on a larger scale. Information on the works of art in the Museum’s collection is available on the following databases: www.smq.qc.ca and www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca

Archives
The Archives Department is primarily responsible for establishing, preserving and maintaining records on the permanent collection. A file of documents is created for each work held by the Museum. It contains the result of curatorial research, a reproduction of the work, related publications, as well as administrative and other pertinent information. The department also processes, describes, preserves and makes available to researchers the Museum’s historical archives and manages the Museum's administrative documents. The department maintains a series of private archives related to the history of the Museum and its collection. Thanks to a grant from the Government of Canada through Library and Archives Canada’s National Archival Development Program, descriptions of the Museum’s exhibition archives are available on the site of the Réseau de diffusion des archives du Québec at the following address: www.rdaq.qc.ca

The employees of the Archives Department respond to requests for information received by mail, telephone and e-mail.

Office hours for the public:
Tuesday and Wednesday
9 a.m. to noon and 1.30 p.m. to 4.45 p.m.

Entrance:
Administrative Centre
3430 du Musée Avenue
Montreal

Mailing address:
Archives
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
P.O. Box 3000, Station "H"
Montreal, Quebec H3G 2T9

Information: 
Phone: 514-285-1600, ext. 305
Fax: 514-285-1017
E-mail: darchambault@mbamtl.org