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3 reviews for Musée de la Civilisation
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Musée de la Civilisation
10/26/2008
A fantastic Museum for all you Quebec and Canadian History buffs.
Ulta modern, yet the buildng is like 400 years old made of block granite rock.
I love the Quebec history exhibit too see the rise and fall of the Catholic Church -Its power.
Other Notes: Native Americans, Inuit, Maple Syrup, hunting and fishing, trade and industry surrounding the St Lawrence River, and the French's Quebec's strive for Independence and survival.
Musée de la Civilisation
8/10/2008
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A dramatically-designed, modern "museum of man" (women aren't included in the sub-title as it was men that did all the killing thus earning the sub-title while women cooked and washed dishes), this bi-level memorial of Western man's colonization of Canada is a child's interactive educational playground with loads of "touch me", "play me" and "look here" stuff which even includes an area where kids can try on early period costumes and play Conquerors of the North. The native Indians must really love this section but I must've missed the Indian garb somewhere because I just didn't see any. Hmm, maybe it's a simple oversight or maybe it's all out on the reservation. Bring plenty wampum and perhaps something for the peace pipe if you want to walk a mile in their mocs.
Of course, I had no interest in any of this historic hyperbole or the hordes of screaming kids running blindly amok among the displays but what lured me in was a colorful flyer advertising a special exhibit on dragons. I happen to like dragons very much...so much so, I wish they existed today in a much more deadly and vicious form than the Komodo Dragons of the Indonesian island group, We need more common threat to human-"kind" other than ourselves, if I was ever asked. Yet I probably blew some dragon-fire of my own when I learned the flyer was in error and the fucking exhibit was over. Oh well, I got in free (I'm a ghostwalker) or dragon-lady here may well have gone berserk and singed the beautiful facade of the "museum of man".
I exited out the back and onto the charmingly quiet 400-year-old cobblestone and car-free rues de la Quebec on the best day of their year.
Listed in: Oh Canada
Musée de la Civilisation
9/13/2008
A perennial favorite on my trips to Quebec (I've been here about 5 times over the years), the Musee does not disappoint, ever. The lobby is massive, with a smart reception area. Admission is mid-range...not cheap, but not exorbitant.
As somewhat of a history buff, I get off on seeing old things in glass cases. The MdlC's exhibit on Quebequois history is fascinating, especially to this American who knows very little about it. In addition to the permanent Quebec exhibits, the other halls can contain just about any exhibit imaginable. It gives the museum a very non-contiguous feel to it sometimes, but since the exhibits are so well executed, one is too dazzled to care. I've seen the most random stuff here: the history and culture of the color blue, Quebec film history (to which I couldn't relate at all), the symbol of blood, a comic book viking history, a crime lab, chinese arts, globalization and its effects on the world (the thrust of the exhibit, and appropriately so, was "Boo, you suck USA corporate bloodsuckers!")...the list goes on and on.
There are lots of buttons, slidey things, movies, soundbites, and interactive doodads to appeal to the 7 to 12 year old in your group. I wouldn't advise bringing kids younger than that. Other than that, the MdlC is real purdy and big and cool and whatnot. Elevators are only so-so, as is the cafeteria in the basement and the gift shop. Overall, one should make the Musee a definte stop, especially after all those hills up and down Basse- and Haute-ville have you ready to gnaw your own legs off from the pain.
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