導(dǎo)讀：蒙特利爾旅游景點(diǎn)介紹(蒙特利爾旅游景點(diǎn)介紹大全) 加拿大著名的旅游城市和旅游景點(diǎn)有哪些？ 加拿大蒙特利爾有什么好玩的地方 加拿大蒙特利爾好玩嗎 哪里能找到加拿大蒙特利爾的簡介啊？

加拿大著名的旅游城市和旅游景點(diǎn)有哪些？

旅游城市：[加拿大] Vancouver 溫哥華

[加拿大] Aklavik 阿克拉維克

[加拿大] Edmonton 艾德蒙頓

[加拿大] Winnipeg 溫尼伯

[加拿大] Ottawa 渥太華

[加拿大] Halifax 哈里法克斯

[加拿大] Montreal 蒙特利爾

著名景點(diǎn)：1.Niagara Falls Ontario泥阿加拉大瀑布,加拿大和美國的交界處，什么時(shí)候去都能見到彩虹。。很漂亮。附近有很多娛樂設(shè)施，還可以在瀑布里坐船。

2.CN tower

貌似曾經(jīng)是世界最高的塔，坐電梯上去看風(fēng)景不錯(cuò)，不過那個(gè)玻璃地板就有點(diǎn)恐怖了。

3.CNE

很好玩的嘉年華，不過只有在8月底才有

4.Central island多倫多中心島

就是坐船到小島上面去，風(fēng)景還不錯(cuò)

5.Thousand Islands

千島湖，也是非常漂亮的大自然旅游景點(diǎn)

6.Quebec city..

這整個(gè)城市都很有法國古老風(fēng)情。。值得一游

7.Wonderland

超級大的游樂場，很多非常刺激恐怖的機(jī)動(dòng)游戲。景色也不錯(cuò)啦

8、錫格納爾山--加拿大著名古跡。位于紐芬蘭省圣約翰斯港。站在此山可鳥瞰圣約翰斯全一個(gè)世紀(jì)的午炮轟鳴聲。

9、哈利法克斯城堡-- 位于新斯科舍省哈利法克斯的城堡山上。這里歷來是兵家必爭之地，歷史上曾三次建為要塞。現(xiàn)存的城堡建于1825年，是北美最大的石頭要塞之一。城堡內(nèi)有新斯科舍博物館和兵器軍械博物館。城堡山東麓的古鐘樓建筑奇特、雄偉。

10、多倫多電視塔-- 建于1976年。塔高553米，是世界上最高的建筑物。站在塔頂“空間了望臺”，可飽瞰安大略湖和多倫多城的湖光美景。

11、卡博特之路--是加拿大著名旅游路線。位于新斯科舍省，該路長294公里。途中可參觀風(fēng)格各異的法裔居民村、蘇格蘭人村和漁村，了解當(dāng)?shù)?a href='/minsu/' target=_blank>民俗風(fēng)情。卡博特之路的中心點(diǎn)是布雷頓角高地國家公園。這里海岸巖石高峻削陡，森林密布，苔原、沼澤蓋地。溪流縱橫，生機(jī)盎然。林中飛禽走獸，使人猶如身居原始森林之中。

12、芬迪國家公園--觀賞世界大潮汐的最理想處。位于新不倫瑞克省東南的阿爾馬鎮(zhèn)附近? ?公園風(fēng)景秀麗。明納斯灣潮是加拿大一著名景觀，潮水發(fā)來后有排山倒海之勢，潮差高達(dá)15米。退潮后海灘留下大量海螺、海貝，頗吸引游人。園內(nèi)除觀賞大潮汐外，還可游泳、海浴、垂釣、泛舟，游覽森林和野生動(dòng)物保護(hù)區(qū)。

13、白求恩故居-- 在加拿大安大略省的格赫文雷斯特鎮(zhèn)。白求恩故居房屋矮小典雅，具有北美洲農(nóng)村的古老風(fēng)韻。小樓旁種有蒼翠的松柏。1974年，已建成白求恩紀(jì)念館。紀(jì)念館陳列著白求恩生活戰(zhàn)斗的實(shí)物和照片，記載這位國際共產(chǎn)主義戰(zhàn)士不平凡的一生。

現(xiàn)在報(bào)紙、網(wǎng)站上大大小小的旅行社很多，真正出遠(yuǎn)門去加拿大旅游還是建議

找一些比較傳統(tǒng)正規(guī)的旅行社吧，比如國中青這些

還有很多什么展覽館，藝術(shù)館之類的。。得看你喜歡什么。

首都渥太華也有不少好地方。

加拿大蒙特利爾有什么好玩的地方

舊城區(qū)

漫步于蒙特利爾市的舊石板街道上，白鴿在身邊駐足向你表示友好的問候，在北美洲這個(gè)小城中體驗(yàn)到歐式的浪漫，坐落于蒙特利爾東西為界貝里街和麥吉爾街，南北以勝圣羅倫斯河與圣杰克街為界的舊城區(qū)，是蒙特利爾最具浪漫風(fēng)情的景點(diǎn)。

布滿鮮花的觀光馬車在街道上不斷來往，街旁一道道精妙絕倫的法式風(fēng)景與神秘而又古老的城堡在眼前不斷轉(zhuǎn)換，穿梭于舊城區(qū)繁忙的港灣口，聆聽那一路清脆的馬蹄聲，“噠噠噠”地響聲，錯(cuò)落有序，行人臉上溫暖的笑意和那一路遮不住的春意，這里的一切仿佛要讓時(shí)光倒流回歐洲人最古老風(fēng)情的那一時(shí)代，讓猶如人置身于電影。

舊城區(qū)的街頭，五顏六色的燈光，不斷閃爍、跳躍、交替著變幻、翻移的光芒，真是讓人亂花漸欲迷人眼，猶如置身于另一個(gè)世界。各式各樣，內(nèi)容豐富的文化活動(dòng)和藝術(shù)狂歡節(jié)至今不但是北美洲之最，還吸引了來自世界各地的藝術(shù)愛好者。據(jù)統(tǒng)計(jì)，蒙特利爾市每年近有超過百萬的爵士樂迷涌入這座城市欣賞一千多個(gè)來自世界各地已經(jīng)加拿大本土的樂團(tuán)的表演。除了八月著名的蒙特利爾國際電影節(jié)，還有每晚通宵達(dá)旦的音樂會(huì)以及各式各樣的節(jié)日：啤酒節(jié)，另類電影節(jié)，法國音樂節(jié)，國際美食節(jié)等。

唐人街

蒙特利爾唐人街

蒙特利爾唐人街是座名副其實(shí)的中國城。四座古典的中華彩繪牌樓，有如它的東西南北四座城門，形成了一個(gè)獨(dú)特的世界。在它環(huán)抱的范圍內(nèi)，滿園春色都是中國店鋪中國字和中國商品中國人。在這里，中國話可以暢行無阻，法語、英語反而成了番語、外國話；在這里，有華人自己的教堂廟宇和醫(yī)院藥房；在這里，你可以采購到幾乎所有你想要的中國商品和華文書報(bào)。

蒙特利爾唐人街最初是以愛爾蘭人為主的外來移民聚居地，是整座城市中最陰暗嘈雜的角落。19世紀(jì)中葉，因?yàn)樾拗?a href='/tielu/' target=_blank>鐵路和開采礦山，大批華工聚居于此，依靠自己的勤勞和智慧，興家立業(yè)落地生根，形成了最初的唐人街。經(jīng)過數(shù)代華人的辛勤創(chuàng)業(yè)，現(xiàn)今的唐人街已經(jīng)成為蒙特利爾市的一處著名觀光景點(diǎn)。街中心的中山公園，雖然不大，卻古樸雅致，中華氣息濃厚，為人們提供了小憩和活動(dòng)的場所。

圣母大教堂

蒙特利爾圣母大教堂是北美最大的教堂，建成于1829年，位于蒙特利爾市舊城區(qū)中心地帶，在達(dá)爾姆廣場對面。據(jù)說圣母大教堂是參照法國巴黎圣母院的樣式建造的，所以人們親切地稱呼它為：“小巴黎圣母院”，同時(shí)它也被稱作北美最大的教堂。別具風(fēng)格的哥特式天主教堂，圣母大教堂的正面矗立著兩座高聳雄偉的塔樓，外形像極了的哥特式風(fēng)格的城堡。中間部分建造稍低，正上方是一個(gè)圣神的十字架，下方泛著金光的是圣母雕像，教堂門前三扇呈尖拱式的大門莊嚴(yán)而又神秘。

穿過莊嚴(yán)肅穆的大門，進(jìn)入圣母大教堂，大堂內(nèi)流光溢彩，滿目的金碧輝煌，使人浸入浪漫奢華與莊嚴(yán)肅穆的極不對稱但又相當(dāng)和諧的混搭之中。寬敞明亮的大廳，每一個(gè)裝飾細(xì)節(jié)無不散發(fā)著藝術(shù)的氣息，每一處都體現(xiàn)了“上帝”的魔力。室內(nèi)大廳則通向更多的小廳，小廳內(nèi)部則更為奢華，讓人目不暇接。教堂內(nèi)還有一個(gè)宗教博物館，當(dāng)中陳列著許多精美中世紀(jì)宗教銀器，銀器精品制作精致，色澤炫彩奪目。莊嚴(yán)肅穆的通道里，來做彌撒的人們在教堂中小聲地說話，靜悄悄地來往行走，相互感謝著上帝的恩賜。

皇家山公園

皇家山公園于蒙特利爾市區(qū)中央，由三座連綿的群山組成在一起的。最高的山頭其實(shí)也只有233米高，但是因其在蒙特利爾重要的地理位置，皇家山公園的頂端是蒙特利爾的至高點(diǎn)。公園建于1876年，占地共101公頃，由設(shè)計(jì)紐約中央公園的著名建筑師Frederick Law Olmste負(fù)責(zé)規(guī)劃，公園雖然面積不大，但園內(nèi)卻景色宜人，湖水蕩漾，波光粼粼，錦鱗游泳，鷗鳥飛翔。在愜意舒適的周末，邀上幾個(gè)好友，不妨來此郊游，湖邊的綠地上，岸邊棵棵挺拔的楓樹把湖水與藍(lán)天掩映于一體，找塊綠地坐下慢慢野餐，伴隨著清新的空氣，感受溫暖秋日里的陽光，楓葉零星散落，光著腳走在如茵的草坪上宛如行走家中溫暖舒適的地毯之上十分愜意。

公園內(nèi)原生態(tài)保護(hù)非常到位，在欣賞品味美食的同時(shí)，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)幾只可愛的松鼠從你身邊經(jīng)過，到處都有它們可愛的身影，讓你情不自禁邀請這些“小客人”與你一起分享美食。皇家山公園不但風(fēng)景優(yōu)美秀麗，同時(shí)也是欣賞秋色楓紅的最佳地方，站在在皇家山公園頂端，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)有一個(gè)平臺式的了望臺，透過這個(gè)瞭望臺你可以俯瞰整個(gè)蒙特利爾市的全部風(fēng)景。遠(yuǎn)處的古老而富有韻味的高樓建筑，莊嚴(yán)肅穆的教堂，街道上來往的鮮花觀光馬車，在這里都可以一覽無遺。

交通：

1.由市中心健行前往皇家山公園，可以在公車#144「Redpath」站搭乘；直接走樓梯上山．

2.前往公園中心的觀景臺，則可以搭乘地鐵在地鐵Mont Royal站下車；并搭乘公車#11上山，公車橫向穿越公園，即可到達(dá)。

蒙特利爾植物園

探索神秘而有趣的植物世界，與大自然零距離接觸，蒙特利爾植物園——植物世界的王國。蒙特利爾植物園建于1931年由加拿大植物學(xué)家馬里·維克羅林提議興建的、分別由植物學(xué)家和園藝家Henry Teuscher設(shè)計(jì)完成。蒙特利爾植物園占地面積達(dá)185畝，園內(nèi)主要以法國庭園風(fēng)格為主，共分10個(gè)溫室和30個(gè)各有主題的室外園區(qū)，園內(nèi)有植物種類豐富達(dá)到近22000多種，根據(jù)資料顯示，蒙特利爾植物園規(guī)模是僅次于英國倫敦的KEW皇家植物園，世界第二大，北美最大的植物園。

植物園中最引人注目的應(yīng)該屬昆蟲館，昆蟲館位于植物園朝向奧林匹克場館的大門內(nèi)側(cè)，整個(gè)建筑十分嶄新，建于1990年。植物園中的昆蟲館號稱北美最大的昆蟲。展館一共分為2層，擁有多個(gè)主題館，展覽了像：蜜蜂，螳螂，甲殼蟲，蜘蛛，蜈蚣，蝎子等昆蟲標(biāo)本大部分是昆蟲活體，很少有昆蟲標(biāo)本。此外，還展覽了許多奇特的昆蟲，例如具有擬生態(tài)和保護(hù)色等奇特生存武器的昆蟲，讓人趣味橫生，流連忘返。

參考門票價(jià)格：旅游淡季 成人6.5加元，60歲以上老人5加元，6-17歲兒童及青少年3.25加元；

旅游旺季 成人8.75加元，60歲以上老人6.5加元，6-17歲兒童及青少年4.5加元。

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蒙特利爾現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)博物館

感受現(xiàn)代技術(shù)與藝術(shù)的完美融合，體驗(yàn)最現(xiàn)代的藝術(shù)時(shí)尚。那你就一定要到蒙特利爾現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)博物館，最具時(shí)尚藝術(shù)魅力的藝術(shù)博物館。蒙特利爾現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)博物館由魁北克政府建於1964年。博物館內(nèi)收藏集近有六千多件藝術(shù)作品，并同時(shí)展覽其他國際藝術(shù)家的作品以及加拿大當(dāng)代藝術(shù)家的作品，博物館的設(shè)立目的在于推廣與完好保存加拿大當(dāng)代藝術(shù)家的美術(shù)作品與其他非物質(zhì)文化藝術(shù)作品。同時(shí)，蒙特利爾現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)博物館也是加拿大唯一一間同時(shí)設(shè)計(jì)給視覺藝術(shù)與表演藝術(shù)使用的文化機(jī)構(gòu)場所，表演形式內(nèi)容豐富多樣，提供當(dāng)代音樂、舞蹈、實(shí)驗(yàn)劇場等。另外，每年的電影狂歡節(jié)——蒙特利爾國際電影節(jié)就在此地舉辦。

博物館總共有兩座樓，隔街相望。座落與東邊大街的博物館收藏著歐洲眾多精美油畫，而位于西邊大街的博物館則展覽陳列出現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)和加拿大藝術(shù)家的作品。兩座博物館之間通過一條長長的地下通道相連接，設(shè)計(jì)者同時(shí)也巧妙地利用空間結(jié)構(gòu)，在通道兩側(cè)同時(shí)陳列著來自印度，日本，中國，波斯等文明古國的古代文明

蒙特利爾棲息地67號

文物。

此外，博物館中還設(shè)有食物風(fēng)味不同的餐館，各式各樣的紀(jì)念品商店和書店，可供人們在參觀完后盡興小憩和購物。

蒙特利爾地標(biāo)性建筑--棲息地67號

1967年，魁北克省蒙特利爾市舉辦了1967年世博會(huì)——20世紀(jì)規(guī)模最大也是最成功的世界博覽會(huì)之一。由于住宅是此屆世博會(huì)的主題之一，因此建筑師Moshe Safdie接受委托建造一座大規(guī)模的住宅綜合樓，首先是供來訪的政要使用，其次是供蒙特利爾市的居民居住。Safdie設(shè)計(jì)的棲息地67號 Habitat 67是當(dāng)時(shí)一個(gè)? ?正的建筑杰作，不但提供了一個(gè)可相互交流的公寓社區(qū)，還能保證租戶的私密性與獨(dú)立性。這個(gè)城市中的城市是1967年世博會(huì)的一大亮點(diǎn)，已成為蒙特利爾市最搶眼的地標(biāo)之一。

蒙特利爾賭場

蒙特利爾賭場建于1993年，是加拿大最大的賭場。它的建筑前身就是1967年蒙特利爾世博會(huì)上的法國展覽館和魁北克展覽館。后來在兩座展覽館中有修建了一個(gè)連接兩個(gè)管區(qū)的建筑，將兩個(gè)管區(qū)相連，也就成為我們幾天看到的3個(gè)建筑組成的蒙特利爾賭場。它的產(chǎn)權(quán)，屬于Société des casinos du Québec，一個(gè)由魁北克省政府合法經(jīng)營的公司，一切利潤均歸省政府。這也使得我們在蒙特利爾數(shù)以百計(jì)地大型活動(dòng)中，從不間斷地看到贊助商Loto Quebec的身影，比如國際電影節(jié)，爵士節(jié)，國際煙花節(jié)，有些甚至是以他們的名字來命名。

蒙特利爾老港

蒙特利爾早年以皮貨和木材交易起家，老港口（the Old Port）是發(fā)跡地，周邊游許多老建筑，保存完好。老港口位于圣勞倫斯河岸，長2.5公里，有四條突堤深入河流。現(xiàn)在它已不具備早年的功能，變?yōu)樾蓍e娛樂的好場所。這里有蒙特利爾科學(xué)中心，穿梭于里面的高科技展廳，玩一玩集成電子游戲都是不錯(cuò)的選擇。還有為了紀(jì)念一戰(zhàn)中陣亡水手而建的白色古鐘塔，它位于港口北端，是遠(yuǎn)眺景色的好地方，可免費(fèi)參觀。人們可以在老港口周邊散步，或進(jìn)行騎行、輪滑等活動(dòng)，或是在水中乘坐噴氣式游艇。冬天，老港口的冰面是滑冰的好地方；到了夏天，許多節(jié)慶也會(huì)在老港口舉行。

加拿大蒙特利爾好玩嗎

三年前的圣誕街去過。個(gè)人覺得最有特色的是老城區(qū)（Vieux-Montreal) ，十九世紀(jì)的歌德復(fù)興式建筑，青石板的街道，法語的古老招牌，浪漫程度跟法國沒差。買特產(chǎn)的話可以去好幫助市場（Bonsecours Market），她百多年前是加拿大國會(huì)大樓，銀色圓頂?shù)暮苋菀渍业摹Ｅ赃厓砂俣嗄隁v史的小教堂（Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours）也不錯(cuò)。

還有就是從老城區(qū)向市中心走，會(huì)經(jīng)過圣母圣殿（Basilique Notre-Dame），外面是宏偉的歌德式圣殿，里面是不可思議的藍(lán)色絢麗禮堂，這個(gè)一定要去的。

其他皇室山（Mont Royal），奧運(yùn)場館等等都可以看看。有幾天時(shí)間的話建議開車（火車也可以)到魁北克城住上兩天，這400年歷史的古城才是魁北克省最精彩的景點(diǎn)，也是世界遺產(chǎn)。

哪里能找到加拿大蒙特利爾的簡介啊？

蒙特利爾旅游

五個(gè)主要旅游點(diǎn)

Updated March 5, 2010

The Montreal Casino

The Underground City

Notre-Dame Basilica

Mount Royal

The Olympic Stadium and environs

The Montreal Casino

Metro Jean-Drapeau and Bus 167 - or inquire at the Dorchester Square tourism counter or at your hotel for free shuttle services, or take a taxi from downtown

The Casino de Montréal is a 24/7 extravaganza of gambling, food and drink. Built inside the pavilions of France and Quebec from Expo 67 on man-made ?le Notre-Dame in the midst of the mighty St. Lawrence River, it's a multi-level experience of roaring, tinkling fun. Cards, dice, slot machines, keno, roulette. Only for people aged 18 and over. Bring money.

The Underground City

pdf map from the STM

pdf map from RéSO

Wikipedia article

Many people come to Montreal to shop in its wide range of international boutiques. Possibly the most famous aspect of shopping in Montreal is the Underground City, waymarked by its official name RéSO (from the French réseau, meaning network). Constantly growing, the "city" – which links many major buildings and multi-level shopping malls in the downtown area – is a shopper's paradise in any season.

Shown above is a reflection of Place Ville-Marie, whose underground mall was one of the founding elements of the Underground City.

The major portion of the system is reached via Peel and McGill metro stations on the green line, which links via passageways to Bonaventure station on the orange line. East of McGill station is another axis from Place-des-Arts metro down through Complexe Desjardins and beyond.

Safe and sheltered from the elements, the Underground City offers a huge range of goods and services, food courts, cinemas and entertainment, as well as a handy way to get from place to place without weather or traffic problems.

Notre-Dame Basilica

Metro Place d'Armes

Official site

Wikipedia article

Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica has nothing in common with Paris's except the name. It's a neogothic building dating from 1829, constructed on the site of a much older and smaller church which had been outgrown by its parishioners.

Notre-Dame is noted for its lavish and beautiful interior – stained glass windows, paintings, statues, gold-tipped polychrome carvings, rich altarpiece. It also has a notable Casavant organ and its largest bell, le Gros Bourdon, is the biggest on the continent.

Céline Dion got married at Notre-Dame, it's typically the site of funerals of significant people such as Pierre Trudeau and Maurice Richard, and classical and choral concerts are held there. There's a son et lumière that tells about the church's history.

Notre-Dame shares Place d'Armes with the Vieux Séminaire, dating from 1685, the red sandstone New York Life building (1888) – Montreal's first skyscraper – the elegant deco Aldred Building (1931), the imposing Roman-style Bank of Montreal building, and the central monument to de Maisonneuve, founder of the original settlement of Ville-Marie. Place d'Armes is currently undergoing something of a renovation.

Notre-Dame is only one of many beautiful churches in the city.

Mount Royal

Bus 11 then walk. Or park in one of the mountaintop lots and walk. Or, walk up from the top of Peel Street.

Official website

The lookout on top of Mount Royal is an excellent goal for an urban walk. It's part of Mount Royal Park, laid out long ago by Frederick Law Olmsted, best known for landscaping New York's Central Park.

From the beautifully appointed lookout terrace, downtown Montreal is at your feet, with a view to the river and beyond to the Monteregian Hills. Some sight lines to landmarks are marked along the parapet wall. The chalet by the lookout is open in the daytime and offers shelter and bathrooms.

Mount Royal is an attraction in Montreal in all seasons. In summertime it's a cool airy refug e from the heat of the city, in autumn the changing colours of the trees are a joy, and in winter there's a range of sports from cross-country skiing and snowshoeing to skating and tobogganing or inner-tubing down the slopes.

The top of Mount Royal is divided between the park and two large cemeteries, the Catholic Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery and the nondenominational Mount Royal cemetery. Both of these can be interesting walks: together they form a necropolis among the largest in the world.

The Olympic Stadium and environs

Metro Pie-IX

Official website

The Olympic Stadium was built for Montreal's 1976 Summer Olympics and is used today for some sports events and major concerts. An elevator ascends the world's tallest inclined tower to a lookout on top; tickets are for sale at the base. The stadium is one of Montreal's most curious pieces of architecture and is accompanied by the Biodome (a building originally used for cycle racing during the 1976 games, now a kind of indoor zoo), shown at left above.

Across Sherbrooke Street from the stadium is the Botanical Garden (best in summertime, but with large greenhouses worth a visit any time of year) and the Insectarium.

Across Pie-IX from the stadium is Chateau Dufresne, built as a grand mansion and now sometimes used for museum exhibits. The Olympic park also contains Saputo Stadium, home of the Impact soccer team, a cinema, the Maurice Richard arena, and also an internationally known, if unofficial, skateboarding venue. Plans are afoot to move the city's planetarium here as well within the next few years.

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Montreal 的幾個(gè)博物館

Updated February 21, 2010

The official Montreal museums website gives details on the three-day Montreal museum pass, the annual Museums Day on May 30, 2010, and this year's museum theme, City of Glass. Our major museums are:

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Musée d'art contemporain

Canadian Centre for Architecture

Historical museums

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

1379-1380 Sherbrooke West – 514-285-1600

Metro Guy-Concordia or Bus 24

Official website – Wikipedia page

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal) is the grande dame of the Canadian museum world. Founded in 1860, the original pavilion, shown above at left – now known as the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion – dates from 1912, and the Jean-No?l Desmarais pavilion, facing it across Sherbrooke St., a Moshe Safdie design, from 1991. The pavilions are connected by an underground passage. A new pavilion is currently being constructed inside the old Erskine and American Church which adjoins the museum.

The museum has a large collection of decorative and ethnographic objects, 19th-century paintings, and Canadian paintings, prints and drawings, only a small fraction of which can be displayed at a time. It also hosts major travelling shows. The major summer exhibition in 2010 will be on Miles Davis.

Café and boutique on the premises.

Admission to the permanent displays is free.

Musée d'art contemporain

185 Ste-Catherine West – 514-847-6626

Metro Place-des-Arts or Bus 15, 80/535, 129

Official website – Wikipedia page – Wikipedia page (French)

Montreal's modern art museum, the Musée d'art contemporain, once housed in Cité du Havre, acquired its permanent home by Place des Arts at Jeanne-Mance and Ste-Catherine in 1992. Specializing in works dating from 1940 onwards, the museum hosts shows in all media used by contemporary artists. Admission is $8; Wednesday evenings are free.

Current exhibit: Marcel Dzama, till April 25.

There's an art bookstore in the basement and a café on the premises.

The museum is now also part of the Quartier des spectacles.

Canadian Centre for Architecture

1920 Baile Street – 514-939-7026

Metro Guy-Concordia or Bus 150

Official website – Wikipedia page

The Centre canadien de l'arc hitecture opened in 1989. An interestingly schizoid building, the fa?ade facing René-Lévesque is the grand old Shaughnessy mansion, which came very close to demolition before the museum plan saved it; the fa?ade facing Baile Street (one of downtown's most modest thoroughfares), shown above, is as aloof as modern architecture can be.

It's worth exploring the exterior of the building as part of your visit: the Shaughnessy fa?ade is partially mirrored across René-Lévesque by a spooky sculpture which leads to an entirely surreal sculpture garden with a view over the Ville-Marie Expressway of the lower parts of town.

The CCA is not only a museum that presents exhibits related to architecture, but also a major study centre for the discipline. It also has a bookstore that will tempt anyone with an interest in the design arts, and there are lectures, movie screenings and other events. Adult admission is $10 and Thursday evenings are free.

History museums

Centre d'histoire de Montréal

335 Place Youville – 514-872-3207

Official website

Musée d'archéologie Pointe-à-Callière

350 Place Royale – 514-872-9150

Metro Place d'Armes or Square-Victoria

The Centre d'histoire de Montréal, shown above at left, built inside the old fire hall on Place Youville, is a deliberately tactile and multimedia experience of what Montreal has been like at different eras of its history – elements like lamp posts, fireboxes, a streetcar ride, are brought together to give a sense of the layered history of the city.

Place Royale, home of the Pointe-à-Callière museum, shown above at right, is the location of the very first European settlement in Montreal. The museum includes the 1992 building in the photo as well as several others nearby, including the old Customs House on the square. A visit to the museum includes a 20-minute multimedia presentation encapsulating Montreal's history, and a visit to the archaeological dig beneath the museum, which goes back to the very origins of the city. Temporary exhibits are headlined from time to time.

These two museums are a five-minute walk from each other along beautifully landscaped Place Youville, where you can also see the granite obelisk dating from 1894 that honours the city's founders.

Additional historical museums in Montreal include:

The McCord Museum of Canadian History

690 Sherbrooke West – 514-398-7100

The David M. Stewart Museum

20 chemin Tour-de-l'Isle (the Old Fort), ?le Sainte-Hélène

514-861-6701

(closed until autumn 2010 for renovations)

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