Now
Fugitives!
The MNBAQ presents the Fugitves! exhibition, designed and orchestrated by historian and hip-hop artist Webster. Nine illustrators create the faces of 13 slaves described in advertisements published in La Gazette de Québec and La Gazette de Montréal.
Murmures
Family Gallery
The Murmures exhibition invites children to discover their inner architect. The Family Gallery has been transformed into a creation workshop that includes a scale model of the MNBAQ.
Challenging
350 Years of Art Practice in Québec
In the first half of the 20th century, challenges to an institutional academicism that had come to be seen as backward looking favoured the emergence of new cultural networks that advocated a conception of art foregrounding visual experimentation and artistic independence.
Feeling
350 Years of Art Practice in Québec
The presentation of various technical approaches that showcase the strengths and constraints specific to each discipline in the depiction of landscape offers a complete panorama of the evolution of this major genre in the history of Québec art.
Imagining
350 ans de pratiques artistiques au Québec
In this room, visitors will see an artist’s studio—that of Napoléon Bourassa—a political space and a religious space that, taken together, show the many forms assumed by art practices associated with commemoration.
Becoming
350 Years of Art Practice in Québec
This room contains a collection of painted and photographic portraits of well-known men and women, and of some lesser-known or unknown individuals considered either typical of their time or class, or unique.
Believing
350 Years of Art Practice in Québec
This room relates how various art practices emerged in the 17th century, a period dominated mainly by the importation of art works from France.
350 Years of Artistic Practices in Québec
To mark its 85th anniversary in 2018, the MNBAQ opened five new exhibition rooms devoted to ancient and modern art.