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The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (English: National Fine Arts Museum of Quebec), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is located in National Battlefields Park and is a complex of four buildings.
- Creation and Overview
- Collections
- Notable Exhibitions
- 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 MNBAQ présente des expositions, acquisitions et activités d'artistes québécois et international. La plus grande collection d’art du Québec.
Composée de peintures, de sculptures, de dessins, d’estampes, d’installations et de vidéos, ses pièces témoignent des grands courants artistiques qui définissent cette période de l’histoire de l’art au Québec : l’automatisme, le formalisme, le post-automatisme, la sculpture matiériste et géométrique, l’art conceptuel, l ...
Aug 13, 2024 · For art enthusiasts in search of new discoveries, the contemporary art centres offer a fascinating gateway to the local creative scene. These vibrant spaces not only allow you to explore innovative works by emerging and established artists from Québec but also to immerse yourself in the region's unique cultural dynamic.
Fier de sa collection de référence en art du Québec, le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec propose un vaste panorama de l’histoire de l’art québécois du 17e siècle à aujourd’hui, avec sa collection de plus de 42 000 œuvres.
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Fier de sa collection de référence en art du Québec, le Musée propose un vaste panorama de l’histoire de l’art québécois depuis le 17e siècle à aujourd’hui avec sa riche collection de plus de 42 000 œuvres. Programmation. En famille. Activités éducatives. Expériences virtuelles.
