Framing Everyday Life: Stories of Confinement

As Montreal’s social history museum, the McCord Museum invites you to take part in this collaborative photography project. Participants are asked to document this period of confinement and explore the changes taking place in our relationship with space.

Podcasts City Talks

For a eighth consecutive year, the City Talks series brings together city thinkers and builders to discuss current practical urban issues affecting Montrealers. The two last seasons are available as podcasts (in French) on the Audio/Video page, on Apple Podcasts, and on blubrry.

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Urban Tours

Stroll through Downtown Montreal… From home! Discover Urban Tours on the McCord Museum app. Several thematic tours available: McGill College: Where Change is Nothing New, Shopping in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Ivanhoé Cambridge: Downtown and Old Montreal, The Art of Magic, Golden Square Mile.

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Griffintown – Evolving Montreal

Follow Montreal street photographer Robert Walker in Griffintown and learn more about his artistic insight.

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Façades of a Thousand and One Stories

Learn how curator Hélène Samson and researcher Nathalie Houle discovered consumer goods, people and anecdotes that tell stories of Montreal.

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Lectures City Talks: videos

Watch the eight seasons of the City Talks lecture series that brings together city thinkers and builders to discuss current practical urban issues affecting Montrealers.

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An Insider's View of Haute Couture

Travel back in time for an insider’s view of making haute couture in the fifties! Follow the making of Bella, Dolorès and Arthenice–three evening dresses from Dior haute couture collections– by Montreal fashion designer Helmer Joseph.

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EncycloFashionQC: Online Encyclopedia

A unique reference tool created by the McCord Museum, EncycloFashionQC features over 500 entries on who’s who in Quebec fashion, from the 19th century to today. Discover the designers, brands, manufacturers, retailers, organizations and events that have been shaping Quebec’s fashion industry since its beginnings.

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Conversations, Lectures and Round Table Discussions

Wath the Fashion at the Museum series of roud teble discussions, as well as presentations by our team of experts: Entretien avec Jean-Claude Poitras, Rencontre mode avec des stylistes, Entretien avec Carl Lessard, Inspirée et inspirantes la mode québécoise, Le Canada en tartan, Le manteau Red River,Tiré à 4 épingles. Restauration et mannequinage Mode Expo 67.

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Conversations with Artists and Experts

Lectures and interviews of artists on the theme of Photography: Griffintown – Montréal en mutation, Gabor Szilasi – Le monde de l’art à Montréal, Influence de Gabor Szilasi, Marisa Portolese, Mimmo Jodice – Villes sublimes, Michel Campeau. Avant le numérique, Discussion entre Kent Monkman et Hélène Samson.

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Photo Albums on Flickr

Discover several photo albums combining photographic archives from the Museum collection, on Flickr.

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Conversations with Artists and Experts

Lectures and interviews of artists in relation to Indigenous cultures: Hannah Claus – c’est pas pour rien qu’on s’est rencontrés, Haïda – Histoires surnaturelles, George Mercer Dawson et la collection Haïda, Donner vie aux pratiques artistiques autochtones, Langues autochtones, précarité et revitalisation au Québec et au Canada, Discussion entre Kent Monkman et Hélène Samson.

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Chapleau, Profession: Cartoonist

With his incisive pen and devilishly sharp strokes, Serge Chapleau shows us the hilarious side of Quebec society. Politicians, celebrities and other public figures—everyone is fair game for the Montreal cartoonist’s scathing humour. Explore the world of this icon of cartooning!

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A Visit to the Drawings Vault With Chapleau

“What’s your secret? Is it the cold air in the vault that preserves you?” This was the first thing Serge Chapleau said to me when I met him at the McCord Museum in 1996…

How Small Labels Can Lead to Big Laughs!

These concise, understated descriptions designed to accentuate the objects on display are essential…

The Cartoon Collection As Seen by a Conservator

It may seem odd, but I rarely laugh when I have a Chapleau cartoon in my hands. That’s because, as a conservator, I quickly scan the image as a whole and ignore the text…

GRIFFINTOWN – EVOLVING MONTREAL

As seen through the lens of Montreal photographer Robert Walker, known for his colour street photographs, Griffintown reveals the radical changes that have been wrought on this neighbourhood’s urban fabric.

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Wearing Our Identity. The First Peoples Collection

This exhibition explores the complex heritage of the First Peoples of Canada and learn more about how their dress has helped define their rich cultures and identities, and helps the public learn about the importance of clothing in the development, preservation and communication of the social, cultural, political and spiritual identities of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis.

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It's Your World

Create a world that’s larger than life or microscopic!
Step 1: Take a cube. On one of its faces, draw a world you’d like to live in.
Step 2: On another face, write three wishes for your world.
Step 3: Cut out your cube and photograph it to share it with the McCord Museum community using #McCordMuseum

Color Our Collection

Colouring books lovers, here is a selection for you. Share your creation with us using #McCordMuseum

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Spot the 7 differences

Have fun spotting the 7 differences hidden in the William Notman photographs!

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COME AND PLAY IN ADÈLE’S ROOM

While the McCord Museum is temporarily closed, a few antique toys from its collection found their way into the bedroom of a young girl named Adèle. Come and play with her! Create your own character inspired by one of your own toys or a surprising object in your home.

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Build your City

To celebrate Earth Day, which is held every year on April 22, the McCord Museum at home is inviting you to build the model of your perfect city. Discover the activity led by artist Virginie Paoli and school projects in partnership with Une école montréalaise pour tous and become the architect of your own city!

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Puzzle: Images From La Chambre d’Adèle

Assemble the pieces to recreate an illustration from the book, La Chambre d’Adèle.
Options: 6 pieces, 9 pieces, 12 pieces, 12 pieces, 15 pieces, 21 pieces, 40 pieces.

Marie Barguirdjian, Mugluck (2019), La Chambre d’Adèle, Édito Jeunesse.

Dress, Fashion and Textiles

The McCord Museum holds the largest collection of Canadian garments and accessories. Its Dress, Fashion and Textiles collection consists of over 20,000 items made or worn in Canada over the past three centuries. The custodian of many examples of mid-20th-century high fashion by Montreal, Canadian and international designers and couturiers, the McCord preserves the heritage of the development of Montreal’s apparel industry and retail clothing sector.

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Photography

The McCord Museum’s photography collection encompasses over 1,300,000 photographs that primarily document the social history of Montreal, but also that of Quebec and Canada. Ranging from a series of daguerreotypes from the 1840s and 1850s to modern digital images, the collection illustrates the development of the art of photography along with the great transformations that have marked the city over the last two centuries.

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Indigenous Cultures

The McCord Museum’s Indigenous Cultures collection consists of over 16,500 archaeological and historic objects recounting nearly 12,000 years of history—eloquent examples of the material culture of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis, primarily from Canada. It explores the deep meaning of the objects not just as historical evidence, but as expressions of the development, evolution and constant revitalization of Indigenous communities.

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Documentary Art

The McCord Museum’s Documentary Art collection is made up of painted, drawn and printed images illustrating the history of Canada and Canadian society. These iconographic documents, produced by professional and amateur artists alike, depict people, places, scenes, historic and political events and objects. Reflecting the opinions and attitudes of Canadians, they can sometimes even be symbols of culture and identity.

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MATERIAL CULTURE

The McCord Museum’s Material Culture collection consists of some 41,000 objects that primarily document the material environment within which Montrealers, and more broadly Quebecers and Canadians, have lived for the past three centuries.

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ARCHIVES

The McCord Museum’s Archives collection is composed of 800 sets of documents, most of which are archives from individuals, families or organizations, or special collections organized around a theme or type of document. Totalling nearly 310 linear metres, these archives cover the entire history of Canada, but focus more specifically on that of Montreal and Montrealers during the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

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