Major museum exhibitions
At the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, see Egyptian Mummies, one of this season's major exhibitions in Montréal, reconstructing the lives of six Egyptians from about 900 BC to AD 180, and more. At Pointe-à-Callière, discover the origins and legacy of the Inca Empire in The Incas, Treasures of Peru, plus multimedia show Generations MTL and other activities. At the McCord Museum see retrospective exhibition Jean-Claude Poitras: Fashion and inspiration, new exhibition Griffintown - Evolving Montréal by photographer Robert Walker, interactive toy exhibition It’s Your Move! and more.
Stories of the past
The Stewart Museum's Nights lets visitors explore the fiction-meets-reality of four worlds created by Québec writers Heather O’Neill, Simon Boulerice, Dominique Demers and Éric Dupont, on until March 7. History meets architecture in the Canadian Centre for Architecture's current exhibitions Building a new New World – Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture and Detour: Alternative Readings of Travel.
More Montréal history
At the Biosphère, Environment Museum see several exhibitions on marine environments, weather and current environmental issues. Among the city's other family-friendly museums, Exporail / The Canadian Railway Museum invites train enthusiasts of all ages to exhibitions such as Exporail at the cinema, the Musée de Lachine illuminates 350 years of history, wax museum Grévin MONTRÉAL features Québécois and international celebrities plus a new chocolate exhibition. And pick up some historic and present-day facts about Montréal that even some locals might not know.
