Etiket: museums
Museums, shops, transport… open or closed for Monday May 20?
This Monday, May 20, grocery stores, pharmacies, shopping centers and convenience stores will remain open. As for the branches of the Société des alcools du Québec, they will maintain their…
Disturbing is the nature of museums
In 1999, during a stay in Barcelona, after having wandered the streets of the Barri Gòtic (Gothic quarter in Catalan), after having strolled on the Rambla, after having visited the…
Museums beyond the works
This text is part of the special Museums notebook Today, the museum experience transcends the simple visit to the exhibition spaces. Institutions are now banking on new and interdisciplinary experiences…
Regional museums and their employees are short of resources
The Rimouski Regional Museum published, in mid-October 2022, a job offer for a curator. The position has only just been filled, a year and a half later. “We are a…
In museums, the boards of directors are far from the bottom of the cows
This series focuses on the boards of directors of state cultural corporations in Quebec. Second angle: their role. What are the purposes of the boards of directors of cultural state…
Borrow a Museum Program | Four new museums accessible free of charge
Four new museums, including the Musée des métiers d’arts du Québec and the Musée des ondes Emile Berliner, will be accessible free of charge from 1er March thanks to the…
in Spain, the Minister of Culture launches the debate on the decolonization of museums
The controversy is mounting in Spain after a proposal to modernize the speeches of major cultural institutions. Published on 02/04/2024 5:59 p.m. Reading time: 2 min The main Prado building…
Special programming at Quebec museums for the holidays
This text is part of the special notebook Culture as a Gift With the holiday season comes the perfect time of year to revisit our great museums and to discover…
Museums in Quebec: stir up thoughts and emotions
This text is part of the special Museums notebook This fall, Quebec City’s museums are offering an eclectic range of exhibitions: music, games, beer, body, meditation are some of the…
Museums in the region: beauty without compromise
This text is part of the special Museums notebook Far from large urban centers, museum teams promote the work of hundreds of artists who have used — and still use…
Attendance at Quebec museums increased in 2022
More Quebecers visited Quebec museums in 2022, but as in several cultural sectors, the numbers still do not reach the pre-pandemic level. Last year, Quebec museums recorded 10.6 million visits,…
Unstable weather this summer: increase in attendance in several museums in Quebec
Thanks to changeable and often rainy weather, art lovers headed to major exhibitions throughout Quebec this summer. Some museums have experienced a sharp increase in attendance compared to the summer…
The works of Françoise Sullivan between galleries, museums and the web
The Galerie de l’UQAM has been doing in-depth work on the art of Françoise Sullivan for many years. The public will certainly remember the exhibitions Œafrom Italyin September 2019, and…
the Church strips the museums, with the blessing of Vladimir Putin
The Trinity of Andrei Rublev and the tomb of Prince Alexander Nevsky, artifacts hitherto held by two Russian museums, have been ceded to the Church, an ally of the Kremlin…
This summer in Ottawa museums
This text is part of the special booklet The summer of museums History and portrait of discrimination in North America from yesterday to today, reflection on the place left to…
New collective agreement for professionals in three museums
(Montreal) Some 200 professionals from three museums have just renewed their collective agreement together for a period of six years. Posted at 11:48 a.m. Lia Levesque The Canadian Press These…
Sixty directors of African and European museums create an exchange network
The members of the new network undertake, among other things, “to pool” their efforts “to document, preserve and reinterpret the collections in Africa and Europe”. Sixty museum directors from 38…
Sixty directors of African and European museums create an exchange network
The members of the new network undertake, among other things, “to pool” their efforts “to document, preserve and reinterpret the collections in Africa and Europe”. Sixty museum directors from 38…
Libraries and museums, post-ice oases
Thursday morning, 8:45 a.m. Fifteen minutes before the opening, an unusual line snaked in front of the doors of the Grande Bibliothèque overlooking the Berri-UQAM metro. Friday during the day,…
Law 35: Museums as a lever to improve the conditions of artists in the visual arts
The effects of the reform of the professional status of artists are increasingly apparent. Much has been said about writers since the adoption last June of Bill 35. The changes…