Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec
The Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec is a museum in Montreal that deals with the traditional handicrafts of the Canadian province of Québec . It is located in the Saint-Laurent arrondissement on Avenue Sainte-Croix. The museum opened in 1979 and is housed in a former church that once stood in the city center and was rebuilt in its current location in 1931.
The Presbyterian church St. Paul , in particular, immigrants from Scotland belonged, decided in 1865 to build a new church on Avenue Dorchester . A building in the neo-Gothic style was built there by 1867 according to plans by the architect Frederick Lawford . In the mid-1920s, the Canadian National Railway (CN) planned to build the Gare Centrale . The church had to give way so that the new main train station could be built. In 1929 the parish purchased a piece of land next to the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal , on which the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul was built as a replacement until 1932 .
The demolition of the old church was planned for 1930. The Congregation of the Holy Cross , which ran a high school in the then independent suburb of Saint-Laurent, needed a new church that could accommodate all students. The order acquired the building on the future station area for the symbolic price of one dollar. In 1931 it was dismantled and rebuilt piece by piece at the new location. The secularization of the education system in 1967 meant that the grammar school was no longer used for the church. The art teacher Gérard Lavallée then began to store works of art and artifacts there. This collection formed the cornerstone of the Saint-Laurent City Art Museum in 1979. Over time, numerous handicraft exhibits were added. In 2002 the museum decided to completely realign its collection. The museum was rebuilt and reopened in 2003 under its current name.
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Coordinates: 45 ° 30 ′ 42.3 " N , 73 ° 40 ′ 16.5" W.