Canada's Premier Contemporary Art Museum

The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal was founded by the Québec government in 1964. At first, the museum was a department within Québec's ministère des Affaires culturelles. In 1983, the government changed the museum's status, making it an autonomous body with its own Board of Directors. Our mission is to promote and preserve contemporary Québec art as well as Canadian and international contemporary art, through exhibitions and numerous other cultural activities.

The Musée moved to the heart of downtown on May 28, 1992. Truly a museum for the twenty-first century, the Musée d'art contemporain is part of the Place des Arts, Canada's only cultural complex devoted to both the performing and visual arts.

A major Canadian institution dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, the Musée offers a varied program ranging from presentations of its Permanent Collection to exhibitions of works by Québec, Canadian and international artists. The Permanent Collection comprises some 7,000 works, including the largest collection of art by Paul-Émile Borduas. Through Education and Documentation Department, the museum presents a host of educational activities further to connect the general public with contemporary art. The Musée also stages numerous multimedia events, including performance, new dance, experimental theatre, contemporary music, video and film.

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The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal is a provincially owned corporation funded by the ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec and receives additional financial support for some exhibitions from the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Director's Office
Monique Gauthier, Director (interim) and Corporate Secretary

Artistic and Education Department 
Paulette Gagnon, Director

Administrative and Commercial Operations Department
Monique Gauthier (interim)

Communications and Marketing
Eric Bilodeau, Director

Human Resources
Monique Bernier, Director  

Development and Funding
Marie Archambault, Director

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Chair
Marc DeSerres

Vice-chairman
Robert-Jean Chénier

Treasurer
Nathalie Pratte

Sam Abramovitch
Rosaire Archambault
Jean Claude Baudinet
Jean-Claude Cyr
François Dufresne
Marcel Fournier
Mélanie Joly
Mario Labbé
Francine Léger
Irving Ludmer
Lillian Mauer
J. Robert Ouimet
Céline Robitaille Lamarre
Marie-Claude Tellier