It is a National Museum of the History of Quebec which will see the light of day where the headquarters of the promised Blue Spaces network was initially supposed to appear, then buried by the CAQ government last March, in the face of exploding costs.
This National History Museum will take shape in the Camille-Roy pavilion of the Séminaire de Québec. Prime Minister François Legault and his Minister of Culture, Mathieu Lacombe, must make the announcement on site at 1 p.m. on Thursday.
According to a source familiar with the matter who confirmed the information first relayed by Radio-Canada, two specialists, including the historian Éric Bédard, professor at TELUQ, will determine the content exhibited inside the institution at come.
The area chosen to anchor the new museum is a stone’s throw from the Museum of French-speaking America dedicated to the history of the arrival and flourishing of French culture in America.
The Blue Spaces, a flagship cultural project of the present government which was to make known the heroes and the history of each of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec, fell through at the beginning of March. The bill, more expensive than initially anticipated when they were announced in June 2021, would have defeated the government’s ambitions since the complete construction of the network would ultimately have cost nearly a billion dollars, according to the Minister of Culture, Mathieu Lacombe.
Instead of the 17 Blue Spaces originally promised, only four will see the light of day and they could eat up a good part of the budget of 260 million dollars initially planned to constitute the network.
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