Immersive exhibitions in Montréal in Spring 2026

Digital arts in Montréal

In a city known for its creativity, digital art experiences abound throughout the year, illuminating Montréal galleries and museums, festivals and pop-up events. Click here to find out where to immerse yourself in the high-tech creativity of Montréal’s digital arts scene.

Dinos Alive

Part natural history museum and part theme park, the all-ages Dinos Alive Immersive Experience at downtown Place Bonaventure features more than 40 life-size moving animatronic dinosaurs, from the small Velociraptor to the mighty T-Rex and Stegosaurus. The realistic installations and moving replicas take visitors back to the land of giants that dominated the animal world for more than 140 million years. The visit takes 45 to 75 minutes. Runs to May 31.

Bubble Planet

Children of all ages will enjoy Bubble Planet Montreal: The Immersive Experience, a surreal and colourful world filled with bubbles! Giant balloons and enormous soap bubbles await visitors who can explore 10 themed rooms. There is even a hot air balloon flight simulator! Runs to April 30 at Place Bonaventure.

Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal

Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal is a cutting-edge art centre located in the hip, urban Griffintown neighbourhood, and promotes contemporary art by exhibiting Canadian artists alongside international artists.

The virtual-reality experience Eternal Notre-Dame transports visitors through Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral to trace 850 years of history to its recent restoration. Runs to April 26.

From the creators of Horizon of Khufu, the virtual-reality experience The Secret of the Pyramid Builders: Tracing Egyptian Ingenuity embarks on a quest to solve a 4,500-year-old mystery: How did the Egyptians build the pyramids? From the Red Sea to the Great Pyramid, a VR guided tour to discover how the Egyptians achieved the impossible. Runs to April 26.

Musée Imaginarium 

The Musée Imaginarium in Griffintown transforms the selfie studio experience. Visitors explore some 16 creative universes imagined for photo and video sessions, from a tropical forest to a diva’s dressing room.

The MEM – Centre des mémoires montréalaises  – widely known as The MEM (or “Le MEM” in French) – is located in the heart of the former historic Red Light District of Montréal in the Quartier des Spectacles. Their immersive exhibition Detours – Urban Experiences takes visitors into the world of Montréalers with singular backgrounds. Runs to January 2027.

The Society for Arts and Technology– widely known as The SAT (or “Le SAT” in French) – is dedicated to the development of digital culture. Located in in the Quartier des Spectacles, the SAT is home to a research laboratory, training centre, venue, café and restaurant, as well as an immersive theatre called the Satosphere, a dome 18 metres in diameter and 11.5 metres high, with eight video projectors and 93.5 loudspeakers. Click here for all SAT events which include the following:

• Reveries of the Solitary Trucker (Rêveries d’un Routier Solitaire) is a 43-minute immersive film with legendary anthropologist, writer, radio host and storyteller Serge Bouchard. Projected in the Satosphere, the film features sound recordings from Radio-Canada’s archives juxtaposed with spectacular visuals, specially created for immersive dome projection. Boreal forests, breathtaking skies and endless stretches of road envelop audiences, bringing them along the 2-million-kilometre journey Serge travelled. Runs April 21 to June 3.

Montréal Science Centre

The permanent immersive exhibition Nanualuk – Northern Expedition at the Montréal Science Centre in the Old Port of Montréal offers more than 20 missions to accomplish, each featuring a different theme related to life in the Arctic, such as learning how to use a harpoon to “read” the ice, and finding your way using the stars. Every mission has a different level of difficulty.

Panorama Expérience

The immersive Panorama Expérience venue in the Old Port of Montréal offers experiential journeys via international and local artworks that rethink our relationship with nature through technology. To inaugurate this new space, the Living Waters show immerses audiences in the aquatic world through sound, light, and sensation via four experiential journeys, from the scale of a whale’s heartbeat to the rhythm of ocean currents. Runs to December 31.

The Horizon of Khufu virtual reality expedition in the Old Port of Montréal transports visitors to the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Equipped with a VR headset, visit ancient galleries and burial chambers, then ascend to the very top of the pyramid for breathtaking views of the Giza plateau and Cairo. In the second half of the 45-minute experience, visitors witness the historically accurate mummification and burial of Khufu, then embark aboard a solar boat on the Nile to bear witness to the funerary rite of King Khufu. Suitable for families with children aged 8+. There is a gift shop and café. Runs to April 20.

Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex

A fascinating history of Montréal’s alleyways, the all-ages Alley-oop – An Interactive Adventure at the Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex in Old Montréal combines games with an exercise in exploration, to embark on an adventure through Montréal’s back alleys which are brought to life with visual projections and motion detection. Runs to January 10, 2027.

With its soaring twin towers and grand interior, the majestic Notre-Dame Basilica of Montréal in Old Montréal is one of Montréal’s most famous icons, built between 1824 and 1829, and designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1989. Famed Montréal visual and sound effects company Moment Factory immerses visitors in its year-round high-tech sound-and-light show AURA Experience which uses the church interior as its canvas.

The PHI

The PHI in Old Montréal presents Inhabiting Absence in their VR Cinema, bringing together four virtual-reality animated works—Ferenj, Less Than 5 Grams of Saffron, Flow, and The Art of Change—that explore memory’s capacity to shape spaces that are both personal and collective. Duration: 60 minutes. For ages 13+. Runs April 1 to May 17.

Canada’s largest indoor immersive attraction, OASIS immersion in the Palais des congrès de Montréal presents the following exhibitions:

• Inspired by the historic COP15 agreements, Root for Nature immerses visitors in a striking interpretation of biodiversity via immersive digital arts and informative educational zones. Runs to May 15. 
• Inspired by Camille Saint-Saëns’ musical masterpiece, The Immersive Carnival of the Animals plunges visitors into a vibrant retro-futuristic universe filled with whimsical characters—half-animal, half-instrument—and a playful, interactive scenography. Especially designed for children aged 2 to 12. Runs to May 18.

ROME, In Caesar’s footsteps 

The virtual-reality experience ROME, In Caesar’s Footsteps at the Palais des congrès de Montréal transports audiences back 2,000 years to the assassination of Julius Caesar. A free-roam VR adventure, visitors explore a meticulously reconstructed Rome: Caesar’s private gardens, the Forum Romanum, the Curia of Pompey where the Senate vote takes place, military camps in Gaul, and the Circus Maximus. With hand-tracking motion capture, participants interact naturally with scenes—voting by raising their hands, handling objects, and influencing key moments. Two different endings are possible depending on the choices made along the journey. Runs to April 26.