Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
 Main building of the museum (Gérard-Morisset pavilion) |
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| place | Quebec , Canada |
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Art museum
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| opening | 1933 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 327,000 (2012) |
| operator |
Fondation du musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
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| management |
Line Ouellet
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The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is an art museum in the Canadian city of Québec . It is the largest museum in the city and also the National Museum of the Province of Québec . Opened in 1933, the art museum specializes in works related to Quebec or created by Quebec artists. Over 37,000 works of all art styles since the 17th century are presented. The museum is located around two kilometers southwest of the old town in four buildings on the Abraham level . The museum, which also includes an archive and library, is operated by a non-profit foundation.
history
In 1920, the Province of Québec began purchasing works of art with a view to creating a provincial museum. Construction work on the first museum building began in 1927, and it opened on June 5, 1933. The Musée de la province de Québec , as it was then called, housed the provincial archive and a scientific collection in addition to the art collection. The latter was outsourced in 1962, and the following year the institution took on the name Musée du Québec . After the provincial archives were also relocated in 1979, the museum was now exclusively dedicated to art. It mostly featured works by Québecan artists, but it also hosted some notable temporary exhibitions. These included, for example, an exhibition of Tutankhamun's treasures in 1965 (in collaboration with the Egyptian Museum in Cairo ) and in 1986 the presentation of works by French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists (on loan from the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage ).
In the early 1990s, the museum was significantly expanded by including a neighboring 19th century prison and a new building. In 1993, a sculpture garden with 15 contemporary works was opened in the park around the museum . A special exhibition with sculptures by Auguste Rodin in 1998 attracted almost 525,000 visitors in just over three months. The museum has been operating under its current name since 2002. A donation of 2,635 objects made it possible to build up a collection of Inuit culture that is unique in the world . As part of the 400th anniversary of the city of Québec in 2008, 465,000 visitors saw a special exhibition on loans from the Louvre .
Exhibition building
The museum is located near the spot where the battle of the Plains of Abraham took place on September 13, 1759 . It currently comprises three exhibition buildings from different architectural eras.
The oldest is the Charles-Baillairgé pavilion . After the government in 1853 purchased the previously agricultural land, she let out a new, by the architect Charles Baillairgé designed prison in Neo-Renaissance building style. After six years of construction, the T-shaped building was completed in June 1867. It was used as a penal system until 1970 and then as a youth hostel. From 1974 it was empty for over a decade. In 1987 the museum announced that it would take over the former prison. Between 1989 and 1991 the interior was rebuilt according to the new requirements, two cell blocks were preserved in their original state.
Until 1991, the MNBAQ only used the Gérard-Morisset pavilion . The building was built in 1933 in neoclassical style, based on plans by the architect and later MP Wilfrid Lacroix . Numerous bas-reliefs by the sculptor Émile Brunet adorn the facade. It is named after the art historian Gérard Morisset , who campaigned for the preservation of the cultural and architectural heritage of the province of Québec. The Central Pavilion has stood between the two buildings mentioned above since 1991 . The building with walls made of glass and granite serves primarily as the main entrance area and connection to the other pavilions. The central pavilion is embedded in the surrounding landscape by means of a partially subterranean location and green roof .
The Pierre-Lassonde Pavilion was built in 2012 , named after the art patron Pierre Lassonde. The transparent building was designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (office of the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas ) and Provencher Roy et Associés . The exhibition area doubled from 18,000 m² to a total of 36,700 m². The 60-million dollars expensive building was by the Prime Ministers of Canada and Quebec, on June 24, 2016 Justin Trudeau and Philippe Couillard , opened.
Web links
- Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (French, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual report 2012–2013. (PDF, 9.8 MB) (No longer available online.) Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2013, archived from the original on November 9, 2014 ; Retrieved October 29, 2014 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Histoire. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, accessed on October 29, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Pavilion Charles-Baillairgé. In: Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec. Ministère de culture et des communications du Québec, 2013, accessed October 29, 2014 (French).
- ↑ a b Site et architecture. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, accessed on October 29, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Pierre-Lassonde Pavilion MNBAQ. EBC Inc., accessed October 29, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Succès de foule pour l'ouverture du pavillon Lassonde. (No longer available online.) Le Soleil, June 25, 2016, archived from the original on October 11, 2016 ; Retrieved on August 16, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 46 ° 47'57.8 " N , 71 ° 13'27.3" W.