This is a list of museums in Quebec City, Canada. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
Name | Neighbourhood | Borough | Type | Summary |
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Artillery Park Heritage Site | Old Quebec - Upper Town | Military | Website, 1830s fort, part of Fortifications of Québec National Historic Site | |
History | Park with exhibits and tours about the story of Jacques Cartier, Jesuit missionaries and Amerindian nations of the 16th and 17th centuries | |||
Centre d'exposition de la bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy | Library | Website, exhibit gallery of the Gabrielle-Roy Library | ||
Natural history | Fossils, rocks, wildlife, history of the Kabir Kouba Waterfalls | |||
Centre d'interprétation historique de Sainte-Foy | History | Website, local history, operated by the borough | ||
Choco-Musée Érico | La Cité-Limoilou | Food | Website, chocolate shop and history of chocolate | |
Old Quebec - Upper Town | Military | Tours include the history of the military garrison, the Royal 22e Régiment Museum, and a former military prison | ||
Économusée du vitrail | Vieux-Limoilou | Art | Website, economuseum of stained glass workshop | |
Old Quebec - Upper Town | Military | Website, history and guided tours of the city's different fortification projects and defense strategies | ||
Henry-Stuart House | Historic house | Website, late 19th-century period cottage | ||
L'Îlot des Palais | Old Quebec - Lower Town | History | Website, 18th-century archaeological site of old Quebec and city history | |
Maison Chevalier | Historic house | Website, managed by the Musée de la civilisation, includes Chesnay House, the Frérot House and the Chevalier House with 18th- and 19th- century furnishings and decor | ||
Maison des Jésuites de Sillery | Sillery | Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge | Historic house | Website, 18th-century Jesuit missionary and the Amerindians in early Quebec, operated by the borough |
Maison Dorion-Coulombe | La Cité-Limoilou | History | Website, local history, operated by the Société de la rivière Saint-Charles | |
Maison Éphraim-Bédard | Charlesbourg | Historic house | Website, operated by La Société Historique de Charlesbourg, period rooms | |
Maison François-Xavier Garneau | Old Quebec - Lower Town | La Cité-Limoilou | Historic house | Website, late 19th-century Victoria period home of poet François-Xavier Garneau |
Maison Hamel-Bruneau | Sainte-Foy | Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge | Multiple | Website, cultural center, exhibits of art and science, operated by the borough |
Maison Léon-Provancher | Natural history | Website, natural history and science | ||
Maison O’Neill | Multiple | Website, historic house, history of the area and its inhabitants, changing exhibits of art | ||
Old Quebec - Upper Town | La Cité-Limoilou | Military | Early 19th-century soldier's life, military history of the Plains of Abraham | |
History | Evolution of Quebec's English-speaking community, includes tours of the 19th-century gaol and Morrin College | |||
Moulin des Jésuites | Charlesbourg | Mill | Website, historic Jesuit grist mill, local history | |
Sainte-Foy | Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge | Natural history | Website, fossils, rocks, minerals, part of Laval University | |
Musée de l'Amérique francophone (Museum of French America) | Old Quebec - Upper Town | La Cité-Limoilou | History | Managed by the Musée de la civilisation, colonial history of America, the evolution of Francophone culture in North America and abroad, and arts and crafts in Québec |
Musée de la civilisation (Museum of Civilization) | Old Quebec - Lower Town | Multiple | Quebec history, First Nations and human culture and civilization | |
Musée de la Place-Royale | History | Website, part of the Musée de la civilisation complex, history of New France and Place-Royale through that of its inhabitants, from Samuel de Champlain to today | ||
Musée des Augustines de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec | Old Quebec - Upper Town | History | Website, work of the Augustines in Quebec, fine and decorative art, historic artifacts | |
Religious | History of the convent of the Ursulines of Quebec | |||
Military | Website, military history of Quebec City | |||
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts) | Art | Focus is Quebec art | ||
Musée naval de Québec (Naval Museum of Quebec) | Old Quebec - Lower Town | Maritime | Website | |
History | History of Quebec and military activities at the Plains of Abraham | |||
Villa Bagatelle | Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge | Historic house | Website, reproduction early 20th-century period cottage and garden, operated by the borough | |