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French:
Musée Des Beaux-arts De Montréal
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1860 - present
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Also known as: Art Association of Montreal, Montreal Society of Artists, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal(Show More)
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in Montreal, Canadian art museum with outstanding collections of paintings, graphics, furniture, textiles, sculpture, and the decorative and fine arts. One of North America’s finest collections of indigenous prints and carvings and Northwest Coast Indian art is preserved there; there is also an important collection of prints and drawings. The museum was established in 1847 as the Montreal Society of Artists; it became the Art Association of Montreal in 1860 and assumed its present name in 1948–49. It moved into its present home, a neoclassical building designed by Edward and W.S. Maxwell, in 1912. A new wing opened in 1976.

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