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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) was one of the first museums in North America to build up an encyclopedic collection worthy of the name. It now numbers over 41,000 works from Antiquity to today, making it unique in Canada.
Location
Montreal, Canada
Founded in
1860

Permanent events

Connections. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Connections
Permanent event
Bon appétit! Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Bon appétit!
Permanent event
Bon appétit! Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Bon appétit!
Permanent event

Past events

Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Gloria Swanson, actor, New York, September 4 (detail), 1980. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Richard Avedon: immortal. Portraits of aging, 1951-2004
12 Feb — 9 Aug 2026
Kent Monkman, mistikôsiwak (Wooden boat people): Resurgence of the people, 2019. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Kent Monkman. History is painted by the victors
27 Sep 2025 — 8 Mar 2026
Henrietta Mabel May, Spring snow, Knowlton, about 1927. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Two by two, together
11 Sep 2024 — 5 Oct 2025
Alan Glass, Worlds of wonder, exhibition view. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Worlds of wonder
17 Apr — 28 Sep 2025
Berthe Weill, art dealer of the parisian avant-garde, exhibition view. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Berthe Weill, art dealer of the parisian avant-garde
10 May — 7 Sep 2025
Bad girls only. Women and the seven deadly sins, exhibition view. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Bad girls only. Women and the seven deadly sins
26 Mar — 10 Aug 2025
Untamed Colour. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Untamed Colour
17 Sep 2019 — 19 Jul 2020
Dominique Blain (born in 1957), Untitled/Protection, 1989, gelatin silver prints on polymeric film mounted on canvas, gilt frames, burlap bags. MMFA, gift of Erik Deslandres. Photo Dominique Blain
Contemporary artists at play
2 Jul 2019 — 1 Jun 2020
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you
4 Dec 2019 — 29 Mar 2020
About Face. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
About Face
11 Dec 2019 — 29 Mar 2020
Obsession. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Obsession
20 Nov 2019 — 1 Mar 2020
Jean McEwen, Peintures Barbares. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Peintures Barbares
17 Sep 2019 — 2 Feb 2020
Momies Égyptiennes. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Momies Égyptiennes
14 Sep 2019 — 2 Feb 2020
Simulacra. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Simulacra
5 Sep — 1 Dec 2019
Omar Ba. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Omar Ba
30 May — 10 Nov 2019
Montreal Couture. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal Couture
2 Mar — 8 Sep 2019
Patrice Stable, La mannequin Emma Sjöerg Wiklund lors du tournage du vidéoclip Too Funky de George Michael, Paris, 1992. Tenue : Thierry Mugler, collection Les Cow-boys, prêt-à-porter printemps-été 1992. Bustier « carénage de motocyclette » en plexiglas peint à la main (Jean-Jacques Urcun), cœur matelassé dans le dos. Short et franges en cuir. Jarretière « Budweiser » assortie. Photo : © Patrice Stable.
Thierry Mugler
2 Mar — 8 Sep 2019
Connections. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Connections
18 Sep 2018 — 16 Jun 2019
Liminals. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Liminals
6 Sep 2018 — 2 Jun 2019
A Model in the Studio. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
A Model in the Studio
26 Jan — 5 May 2019
Carlos Sanchez (born in 1976) and Jason Sanchez (born in 1981), The Everyday, 2009. Nicolas Baier, January, 2003. MMFA, gift of the Lazare family collection.
Of Individuals and Places
28 Nov 2018 — 28 Apr 2019
Jeremy Shaw, Liminals (freeze frames), 2017, HD video installation, 19:43 min. On loan from the Bailey Collection, Canada. Courtesy of Macaulay Fine Arts, Vancouver
Liminals
6 Sep 2018 — 24 Mar 2019
Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor
21 Sep 2018 — 24 Feb 2019
Seven miniatures from a breviary. Master of the Échevinage of Rouen. About 1470, Rouen. Sept miniatures taken from a manuscript breviary in Latin for the use of Rouen (?) or of Rome (?). Montreal, McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections. Purchased by Gerhard R. Lomer, McGill University librarian, at the request of R. Cleveland Morgan, 1927. MS 102/1 to 102/7. Catalogue raisonné: notice no. 25.
Resplendissantes enluminures
5 Sep 2018 — 6 Jan 2019
Jean-Michel Othoniel. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Jean-Michel Othoniel
20 Jun — 11 Nov 2018
Here we are here. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Here we are here
12 May — 16 Sep 2018
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso. Courtesy of Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso
12 May — 16 Sep 2018
Mnemosyne. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Mnemosyne
18 Apr — 12 Aug 2018
From the Hands of the Masters II. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
From the Hands of the Masters II
10 Apr — 12 Aug 2018
Nadia Myre. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Nadia Myre
15 Nov 2017 — 27 May 2018
Dan Brault (born in 1979), Lingering in Time’s House (Vanitas), 2016, acrylic and oil on canvas. MMFA, purchase, gift of R. Fournelle. Photo MMFA, Christine Guest
Mnémosyne
20 Apr 2017 — 20 May 2018
Napoleon. Art and Court Life in the Imperial Palace. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Napoleon. Art and Court Life in the Imperial Palace
3 Feb — 6 May 2018
Hommage au Dr Sean B. Murphy (1924-2017). Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Hommage au Dr Sean B. Murphy (1924-2017)
12 Dec 2017 — 1 Apr 2018
Kushapetshekan / Kosapitcikan. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Kushapetshekan / Kosapitcikan
3 Oct 2017 — 4 Mar 2018
Meryl McMaster. Courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Meryl McMaster
8 Sep — 3 Dec 2017
Marc Chagall working on the panels for New York’s Metropolitan Opera: The Triumph of Music, 1966. Paris, Atelier des Gobelins. © SODRAC & ADAGP 2016, Chagall ®. Photo © Izis-Manuel Bidermanas
Chagall. Colour and Music
28 Jan — 21 Jun 2017
Chagall: Colour And Music, Exhibition view. Courtesy of The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Chagall: Colour And Music
28 Jan — 11 Jun 2017
View of Adel Abdessemed’s installation Conflict. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. © Adel Abdessemed / SODRAC (2017) / Courtesy of the Artist and Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv – Brussels. Photo Denis Farley.
Adel Abdessemed
16 Feb — 7 May 2017
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989), Thomas, 1986, gelatin silver print,60.5 x 50.4 cm. MMFA, gift of Guy Joussemet. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.
Robert Mapplethorpe
7 Sep 2016 — 22 Jan 2017
Aerial view of the ruins of Pompeii with Mont Vesuvius on the horizon Photo © Roger Ressmeyer / CORBIS
Relive Pompeii
6 Feb — 5 Sep 2016
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Bank – RCA Color Scanner, 1968, Offset lithograph, 76.2 × 114.2 cm. For the promotion of a colour scanner. Publisher: Darien House, Inc., New York. Printer: MacNaughton, New Jersey. Collection Paul Maréchal. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / SODRAC (2014). Photo Roch Nadeau, courtesy Paul Maréchal
Warhol Mania
6 Nov 2014 — 15 Mar 2015 at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Maximilien Luce, Français, 1858 – 1941, Les Batteurs de pieux, 1902-03, Huile sur toile, 153 × 195 cm, Paris, musée d’Orsay, don de Frédéric Luce, fils de l’artiste 1948, Photo Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY
From Van Gogh to Kandinsky
11 Oct 2014 — 25 Jan 2015 at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Shirin Neshat (born in 1957), production still for Illusions & Mirrors, 2013. © Shirin Neshat; realized with the support of Dior; courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels
Illusions & Mirrors with Natalie Portman
22 Oct 2014 — 4 Jan 2015 at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Matthieu Cheminée, Born in Paris in 1970, Bracelet, 2013, Silver, gold, champagne diamond, On loan from the artist, inv. 57.2014. Photo Anthony McClean
Remarkable Contemporary Jewellery
16 May — 30 Nov 2014 at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Nirit Dekel, Tel Aviv, Israël
BIJOUX=ART
18 — 21 Sep 2014 at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Peter Doig, 100 Years Ago (Carrera), 2001, Oil on linen, 229 x 359 cm, Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Photo Jochen Littkemann
Peter Doig. No Foreign Lands
25 Jan — 4 May 2014 at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal

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