How can you introduce your children to history, architecture or heritage during this spring break? Here are our five choices of activities!
- Visit a museum
Museums have once again been allowed to welcome the public since February 8. At the Mc Cord Museum, the permanent exhibition "Wearing Your Identity - The First Peoples Collection" will introduce you to the importance of clothing in the development, preservation and communication of the social, cultural, political and spiritual identities of Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
Admission to the Museum is free for children 12 and under! Click here to visit the museum's website and discover their programming for spring break.
At the Pointe-à-Callière Museum, discover the exhibitions Let's board! Pirates or privateers? as well as Train, transporter of dreamsa captivating exhibition about the world of trains!
- A Search and find around your house
Neighborhood Treasures is an activity offered by Héritage Montréal families. Download our “search and find” game and set off to explore your neighborhood...
- View our virtual tours then refaiyour la visit on foot !
Old Montreal, Jean-Talon Street, Lafontaine Park, Saint-Hélène Island... Choose from our 2 virtual tours and 13 block tours and then get out for a walk: will you be able to find the buildings and monuments seen in the videos?
- A movie afternoon with the documentary Rêveuses de ville (City Dreamers)
This Quebec documentary by director Joseph Hillel is accessible to young people aged 12 and up.
Rêveuses de villes transports us to the heart of our urban environments in perpetual metamorphosis as we meet four exceptional architects, exemplary women, pioneers who - for decades - have been working, observing and shaping the city of today and tomorrow.
You can rent the film on the Vimeo platform and see the trailer below.
- Discover the new podcast of the Pointe-à-Callière Museum!
Raconter Montréal offers you two episodes to discover the city differently: "Love in New France" and "Myths and Legends". A new episode is available every two weeks, to be listened to in the warmth of your home or while strolling the streets of Montreal!
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