This text is part of the special Youth Culture section
It’s never too early to learn about art and its beauties and explore museums in search of treasures to discover and learning to store. Here are some Quebec museums that display exhibitions and activities specially designed for your curious little ones.
DIY at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
In addition to the exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore. Giants of modern artwhich explores the work of these emblematic artists of the 20the century, the MMFA engages your children’s imagination through DIY activities that will surely inspire them. As part of the workshop Petites mains (2 to 5 years), prints under the fingers, your budding Picassos will create a landscape image of their own, while in Corps-nature (12 years and under), they will all have the tools to create an original sculpture. Until May 26, 2024.
“The art of wrestling at the Museum of Civilization”
The creative company Ex Machina and its illustrious artistic director, Robert Lepage, are these days passionate about wrestling, through the circus show SLAM!but also through the exhibition Struggle. Quebec in the arena, currently on display at the Musée de la civilization. Rarely have we so highlighted the culture behind the entertainment that is wrestling: its characters, its places, its symbols, its movements… Praising the unique style of Robert Lepage, the skits reinvent ancient perspectives and visual technologies (mutoscope, praxinoscope, Pepper spectrum, etc.) and tell their story in a corpus of nearly 500 objects testifying to the importance of the struggle in Quebec, in its nuances calling for the circus and the theater. Art will never have “hit” so hard! Until April 20, 2025.
The DNA of Quebecers at the POP Museum
At the POP Museum, the exhibition Tie on your hat! A breathtaking trip into Quebec culture, which zigzags between a multitude of themes to reflect the concerns and DNA of Quebecers (language, hockey, gastronomy, First Nations, tales and legends, winter, music, innovations, etc.), received in 2020 the Prize of Excellence from the Société des musées du Québec, a distinction recognizing in particular the innovation and creativity of its content. The museum presents the project as a sociocultural portrait of our people, whose orientations were selected by means of a Léger survey conducted among a thousand Quebecers. In the “Swigne la bacaisse” section, we immerse ourselves in our French-speaking songs; the area titled “Y fait frette” exposes our love-hate relationship with laneige; “It’s unbelievable” talks about humor, tales and legends, while the portion “We have chatter” gently highlights the colors of our language and our accents. The contribution of First Nations representatives is also honored in the Kuei space. “There’s a little bit of the rest of us in there,” once chanted an advertisement for Habitant soup, a slogan that fits perfectly with the blend. Tie on your hat!… Until February 11, 2029.
A different kind of selfie at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
If visual art is popular in your family, forget the selfies (selfies) and reconnect with the good old pencils to imitate Rembrandt. Embellish yourself with costume elements and draw your self-portrait, or scribble a drawing inspired by a work from the MNBAQ collection in the Self-portrait – Workshop for all activity. Sundays, from May 5 to June 23, 2024.
We play at the Canadian Children’s Museum and the Canadian Museum of History
At the Canadian Children’s Museum, you will have understood that little ones are distinguished guests. They are invited to have fun in colorful spaces beautifully designed for them, evoking Mexican cuisine, a house in India, an open-air market, a ship, a Pakistani bus… A quick, inexpensive trip, enhanced with plus a passport decorated with stickers. More broadly, the Canadian Museum of History, which houses the Children’s Museum, displays a host of tangible or online exhibitions whose subjects could interest your heirs: sports, stamps, puppets, toys, Canadian history, etc.
Touch on everything at the Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts
At the family creation workshops at the Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts, your little artists will explore all forms of art and all materials, in age groups of 4-5 years, 6-8 years, 9- 12 years old and 13-15 years old. At the Art Hive, a meeting and inclusion platform, on the first Sundays of the month, an art therapist and a mediator support participants in a process of democratization of art, without regard to technical skills, and free of charge. We draw inspiration from renowned artists to design our own work. The activity A Sunday with… is based on reading the life story of a great name in creation (Dalí, Vinci, Claudel, Ferron, etc.) and is also offered in Quebec signed language. The next Family Creation Workshops will take place on April 13 and 20, 2024, and the activities of the Art Hive and A Sunday with… will take place respectively on 1er Sunday and the last Sunday of the month until the end of the year.
Performance and experimentation at the Joliette Art Museum
At the Tout-petit atelier (0 to 4 years) and at the Atelier MAJ-ique (5 to 12 years) of the Joliette Art Museum, kids and teenagers will play with colors, textures and formats in adapted concepts at their age. In the Staging activity. A performative journey, it is the artistic performance itself which is at the heart of the proposal. The MAJ-ique Workshop takes place on April 14 and 28, 2024, and the Tout-petit workshop, on April 21 and May 5, 2024.
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