Musée de l'Amérique Française

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  • Address
    2 côte de la Fabrique, Latin Quarter, G1R 5K1
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  • Phone
    692 2843
  • Website
  • Transport
    bus: 3, 7, 11, 20
  • Jun 24-early Sep: 09:30 - 17:00 , Sep-Jun: Tue-Sun 10:00 - 17:00

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Lonely Planet review

Right on the grounds of the Séminaire de Québec (the Québec Seminary) this excellent museum is purported to be Canada's oldest museum. (The Musée Scientifique du Séminaire de Québec opened here in 1806). Today's museum has brilliantly atmospheric exhibits on life in the seminary during the colonial era as well as religious artifacts and temporary exhibitions on subjects like endangered species.

The seminary priests were avid travelers and collectors and there's some magnificent displays of the scientific objects they brought back with them from Europe like old Italian astronomical equipment. The exhibits are capped by a wonderful short film on New World history from a Quebecer's perspective.

If the gates to the left of the basilica are closed, enter the grounds at 9 Rue le l'Université.