Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Stewart Pavilion.
Desmarais Pavilion.
piece in itself, was designed in 1894 in Neo-Romanesque style and has been designated a national historic site. Te building, graced with high quality acoustics and 20 stunning Tiffany stained glass windows is also now home to a 444- seat concert hall, Bourgie Hall. Musical performances are as eclectic as the art with performances by chamber-music ensembles, string orchestras, and others including the Arte Musica Foundation who offers a full music program. Last year the International Festival of Films on Art, FIFA, made a permanent move into the pavilion and is now able to in- tegrate its films into the museum's growing list of available programs. Attending a concert after touring the art collection is an out-of-body experience; the visual images take on a third dimension in your mind as you listen to the music. Combining visual arts with music has been the focus of the museum and has led to some interesting and innovative exhibitions unique to Canada, including Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol’s Work; Imagine: Te Peace Ballad of John & Yoko; We Want Miles: Miles Davis vs. Jazz; Lyonel Feininger and Splendore a Venezia: Art and Music from the Re- naissance to Baroque in the Serenissima.
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MMFA has the highest museum attendance in Canada with between 600,000 and one
million visitors per year.
Bourgie Pavilion.
Peace Pavilion rendering. In celebration of the museum's 375th anniversary a fifth
wing, the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace, will open in late 2016 and be devoted to international art and education. “Te phrase ‘creative studios’ perhaps sums up 2015 for the MMFA, with three major exhibitions look- ing at the ostentatious studio‐salon of orientalist painting, the forbidden studio‐laboratory of Rodin, and the studio‐ circle of the 1920s marked by modernity and the emancipa- tion of women artists. Te MMFA will also further its social and educational commitment with contemporary artists and educational exhibitions dealing with such subjects as exclu- sion, the environment and homophobia," says Director and Chief Curator Nathalie Bondil. As members of the Bizot Group, or the International
Group of Organizers of Large-scale Exhibitions, a forum developed for the leaders of the largest museums in the world to exchange works and exhibitions, the MMFA is privy to receiving excellent exhibitions from around the world and has produced and circulated many of its own exhibitions across North and South America, Europe and Australia. Tis is a must see stop for museum and music lovers. C’est
incroyable! They also have the
highest membership for any Canadian museum; over 90,000 members last year.
Approximately 200,000 participate in
educational activities at the museum annually.
The MMFA is also one of Canada’s leading publishers of French and English art books
which enjoy worldwide distribution.
The Hub
Photo courtesy of Tourisme Montréal. Photos courtesy of MMFA.
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