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Pointe-à-Callière Museum

Pointe-à-Callière Museum
Pointe-à-Callière Museum

Pointe-à-Callière Museum is an art museum in Ville-Marie, Canada.

About Pointe-à-Callière Museum

Pointe-à-Callière Museum (French: Musée Pointe-à-Callière, pronounced [myze pwɛ̃t a kaljɛʁ]) is a museum of archaeology and history in Old Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1992 as part of celebrations to mark Montreal's 350th birthday. The museum has collections of artifacts from the First Nations of the Montreal region that illustrate how various cultures coexisted and interacted, and how the French and British empires influenced the history of this territory over the years. The site of Pointe-à-Callière has been included in Montreal’s Birthplace National Historic Site since its designation in 1924.

It receives more than 350,000 visitors a year. Nearly 4.5 million people have come to the museum since it opened in 1992.

Pointe-à-Callière Museum by the numbers

Founded
1992
Visitors / year
527,216

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Artworks shown from Pointe-à-Callière Museum are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.