Toward the southwestern end of Parc des Champs-de-Bataille (Battlefields Park) and a half-hour walk from Upper Town, the Musée du Québec, as it's known, is the city's major art museum. It occupies a former prison, a soaring glass-roofed Grand Hall, a stylish cafe, and a shop. The best reason to visit is to see the Inuit art collected over the years by Québécois Raymond Brousseau . In 2005,... more

There are more than 27,000 works of art here, from the beginning of the colony to the present. You'll discover countless artists whose haunting sculptures and paintings will leave you wondering why they are unknown outside Canada. The museum is housed in two buildings, one of them a former prison (one cell has been preserved as an exhibit), linked by a soaring glass-roofed hall. The... more