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Tag: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

  • Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

    Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

    This trip was our first time where we spent the night! And our first time using public transport. By now, we knew our way around and could lead others around the city. This time, we actually went into Notre Dame, instead of just hanging around outside.

    The expected highlight of the trip was going to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts again which we’ve already spent an entire day at but also the Contemporary Art Museum of Montreal, or Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.

    First of all, it’s impossible to find. It’s underground, one tiny door in a weird closed/dead shopping breezeway kind of thing, but we found it. The entire museum was just three rooms, some installation art and short films. We got lost there for a while.

  • Montreal Botanical Garden & Museum of Fine Arts

    Montreal Botanical Garden & Museum of Fine Arts

    Our first foray up to Montreal was with two of our friends from California. Surprise – the border crossing was extremely easy and it took only 1.5 hours to make it to downtown.

    We walked around the Montreal Museum of Art and then the Botanical Gardens. Because it was our first time there, we chose easy destinations to drive to, nothing we had to navigate tricky parallel parking, obeying signs we couldn’t read because they were in French.



    The Garden was huge and beautiful. We loved the themes and took so many photos. It was a rainy day, so we had to run under a Chinese pagoda or sneak into an insect exhibit to get away from the raindrops whenever it started to pour.

    I bravely chose a poutine restaurant in little Portugal, also known as Hochelaga. We walked there from the Botanical Gardens and had our very first French Canadian meal!