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The Musée publishes a new guide to illustrate every part of its collection, A History of Art in Quebec: The Collection du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. 2005: The collector Raymond Brousseau, with the collaboration of Hydro-Québec, donates 2,635works of Inuit art to the Musée, a one-of-a-kind collection in the world. 2006
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Le MNBAQ présente des expositions, acquisitions et activités d'artistes québécois et international. La plus grande collection d’art du Québec.
In 2002, the museum was renamed the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. The collection includes over 40,000 works from the 16th century to the present day. The collection primarily includes works that were produced in Quebec, or by a Quebec artist, although it also includes works from other parts of Canada, and the rest of the world.
- Creation and Overview
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- First Expansion: 1989–91
- Second Expansion: The Pierre Lassonde Pavilion
Though works were first acquired in 1920 and the bill that created the museum was passed in 1922, the Musée officially opened on 5 June 1933 as the Musée de la province de Québec. The original objective of the Musée was to provide a home for the provincial archives, the museum of natural sciences and the fine arts museum. Over the years, it develop...
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec was among the first institutions to recognize the talent of the province’s artists. Painters and sculptors such as Horatio Walker, Sylvia Daoust, Clarence Gagnon, Alfred Laliberté, Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Côté, Georges Saint-Pierre, Alfred Pellan, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jean Paul Lemieux, Françoise Sullivan...
Some of the more notable exhibitions held by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec over the years include the highly successful Tutankhamun Treasures in 1965. Paintings by French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masters from the Soviet Union drew 135,000 visitors in six weeks in 1985–86, while Rodin in Québec Citywas attended by 525,000 p...
A major expansions project to provide the Musée with the facilities of a modern museum took place between 1989 and 1991. It more than doubled the surface area previously available for art exhibitions and enabled the museum to offer visitors a wider variety of services. An architectural design created by Charles Dorval and Louis Fortin integrated tw...
A second major expansion of the Musée added a fourth pavilion to the museum complex and was opened to the public on 24 June 2016. The expansion provides a glass-enclosed gateway to the museum from the street and doubles the available exhibition space. It was designed by the internationally acclaimed Office for Metropolitan Architecture — headed by ...
Le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) 9, dit autrefois musée de la province de Québec, puis Musée du Québec, est un musée québécois des beaux-arts situé à Québec. Il a pour mission « de faire connaître, de promouvoir et de conserver l'art québécois de toutes les périodes, de l'art ancien à l'art actuel, et d ...
Le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec a pour fonctions de faire connaître, de promouvoir et de conserver l'art québécois de toutes les périodes, de l'art ancien à l'art actuel, et d'assurer une présence de l'art international par des acquisitions, des expositions et d'autres activités d'animation.
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