Outdoor Activities
Urban Tours
History at your fingertips! The Urban Tours provide a fun way to learn more about the history of certain Montreal sites.
Take an exclusive outdoor tour thanks to historical images from the Museum’s Photography and Documentary Art collections. Using your phone, you can follow various tours and discover the history of more than 75 city sites and images that bear witness to the Montreal of the past.
With Google Maps‘ interactive maps, you can now follow directions and choose your own route! All information regarding the history behind each stop is available on these maps.
Tour | 45 Min
Griffintown – Evolving Montreal
Discover some of the many changes that have transformed this mythical district since the 18th century! Over the past ten years, extensive structural and architectural transformation has made visible evidence of Griffintown’s industrial, working-class roots increasingly hard to find. But these recent changes represent only the latest chapter in a cyclical history of destruction and renewal.
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Tour | 45 Min
McGill College: Where Change is Nothing New
The McCord Stewart Museum invites you to take a short walk that offers a glimpse into this beautiful thoroughfare’s past. As you’ll see, the avenue and its surrounding buildings have undergone many minor nips and tucks over the years.
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Tour | 1 H
Downtown and Old Montreal
The Downtown and Old Montreal tour takes you through a section of downtown and Old Montreal as you explore the past of iconic department stores, theatres and buildings, most of which are now owned by real estate company Ivanhoé Cambridge.
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Tour | 1 H
Shopping in the 19th and 20th Centuries
While St. Catherine Street is undergoing a makeover, the Shopping in the 19th and 20th Centuries tour invites you to relive the atmosphere of bygone Montreal through photographs, archives and objects from the McCord Stewart Museum’s collection that reflect fashions of the past.
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Tour | 1 H 30
Golden Square Mile
Discover the typical architecture of the Golden Square Mile and explore sumptuous mansions that underwent many transformations. You will be surprised by what they are used for today. Since the 19th century, the neighbourhood of the Golden Square Mile has been synonymous with luxury due to its sumptuous mansions as well as department stores, university buildings and luxury hotels.
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Tour | 2 H
The Art of Magic
Step into the past and discover 13 Montreal magic venues through The Art of Magic tour. Montreal was home to nearly fifty theatres and performance halls, many of which presented magic shows. Between 1882 and 1934, Montreal welcomed Alexander and Adelaide Herrman, Harry Kellar, Howard Thurston and Harry Blackstone, as well as Houdini.
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