Fondation du Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal Reviews

Great exhibits and permanent collection. Worth the visit.

Two exhibits were on display during our visit. Put together very well. Tip: There is no permanent collection.

Lots on interesting and interactive art. Kids loved it.

Visited during a free Sunday. Contemplative spaces that awaken your senses!

a must if you like contemporary arts. very cool that they also have the friday nocturnes from time to time.. a night at the museum! very very nice.

One of the best art museum experiences of my life I would definitely put this on the list of must-see attractions from Montreal

A must if you like art. Many exposicion change so check the web site.

Not very big when it's half open, but I didn't want to leave once I made it to the Jean-Pierre Gauthier installation.

Really tiny .... and expensive ... Really disappointed!

Wonderful time, always feel refreshed when I come to visit. The Museum always has a different experience and feel, the exhibitions are amazing.

Free on Sunday's for Quebecois. I highly recommend it.

Superb museum located in the arts district .. presently (February 2018) you have to go see the exhibition about Leonard Cohen .... simply wonderful

For $19 I saw 10 mediocre paintings and 3 boring audio-visual recordings. Super disappointing.

In between exhibitions. Permanent? Artwork present was fun and quirky.

A great museum. A lot smaller than the museum of beaux arts though.

Both fun and interesting, the museum of contemporary art is full of works. I really liked the fact that the works interact with the viewer. Some lead to a reflection on what surrounds us.

Too bad a part was closed. It gives me a reason to come back.

A spectacular interactive visit of the life and works of this great poet that was Cohen.

A museum to visit if you re into most modern art that you can also interact with. It s not as big as the fine arts museum, but the interactions with the art make it seem just as huge.

Maybe when the galleries are opened it'd be a nice place, but unfortunately there isn't much to see at the moment.

This muesam was so much fun!! The art was all really cool and not at all what I expected. It was also reasonably priced. I definitely recommend coming here!

Very interesting museum to discover. Art in all its forms!

Nice museum to spend your afternoon. I wish it was bigger!!

Post Modern Art
New bright colourful art in various media: painting, mixed media, sculpture, video and interactive made by living artists are showcased using materials like plastic, metal, glass, along with more traditional materials like paints and ceramics. One installation with many light bulbs gradually lighted up when hands touched its control. Another dark room had multiple video screens showing a famous American actress acting in diverse characters in her many films.

Small museum. We stayed for less than an hour. We found about half of the work compelling(not bad) and the work was presented/staged well. There is a better and larger modern art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Great experience and great place to visit with kids (very interactive expo)!

Original, interactive, unseen works.
The top colors exhibition.
The geometry exhibition forms a bit academic and covers everything. But that's my opinion.

Rafael rozendaal was so good,sometimes it s for free on Wednesday

We could only visit 2 of the 3 exhibitions because we arrived a little late, but they were very interesting, the videos were involved, I really enjoyed the music that ensued for one of them. The paintings were just as fascinating, with certain abstractions allowing you to see everything quite different from your neighbor, free to interpret!

Great Exibit the Manifesto. Super awesome and creative

The entrance fee is too expensive for the exhibition presented. At the end of the exhibition we started looking for the rest, but only the free section was left. I regret I bought the ticket, because the most interesting exhibit was in the free part - it's the mechanical piano. For all my friends I will advise not to buy the ticket as it is not worth the cost, while the free section is quite interesting.

Thanks to you, I discovered Leonard Cohen. Thank you!
I can not wait for your next exhibitions! It is too long :(

A must in Montreal's cultural life. They regularly have exhibitions that must be seen!

An interesting museum with varied exhibitions. Some of the items were intriguing (great techniques), but the meaning for some evaded me. Maybe you're not supposed to "get it". The permanent collection was not available at the time, but I would go back to check it out. Easy to find and get to

Great place for people who like tech and are into the Arduino/raspberry Pi

Friendly and helpful staff that speak English and French, great to visit even between exhibitions

Not the greatest art museum of all time. Costs to get in and the exhibits are minimal. The best part of this museum was outside!

Cool place with really thought-provoking pieces. Good mix of mediums also. Security was ridiculous though I was scolded for pointing at something in one room and then another guard followed me so closely they nearly bumped into me several times.

Although slightly interesting from a technical point of view, ultimately, I was disappointed. Exhibition of very small size, far too many people for the little space, too much ambient noise to enjoy the sound installations, and to top it off: a $ 20 entry fee (at half the regular price) ) for the very little that there is. In a whole exhibition of more than a dozen or even more than twenty or so installations, only two or three were understandable / appreciable from an artistic point of view, despite my habit of spending almost 10- 30 minutes per piece to analyze each piece of a museum in all possible angles so reading the attached text.

From the technical and technological point of view, there were impressive concepts, certainly, but overdeveloped and poorly executed.

To avoid for the moment if one seeks something other than the novelty without depth, there are other free museums having infinitely more contents. At least I can say that I tried it, maybe the next exhibition will be worth its exorbitant price.

Excellent Lozano-Hemmer exhibition. Fantastic security staff never met such helpful and cheerful staff in a gallery.

A great museum with an interactive exhibition, it takes about 2 hours to explore. The best part is Eliasson's play of light.

Pleasant museum rich in varied to astonishing works. Visit within the framework of cultural Sundays! Don't forget your provincial ID for free access, it makes you want to continue!

Small museum, with basically one full floor of exhibits. The main light exhibit at the time that I visited, which is located at the lobby of the museum, only had presentations twice a day, and I wasn't able to see it before leaving. Check the type of exhibits they have before deciding if you want to go. Half price on Wednesdays from 5-9pm!

Amazingly inspired by the exhibit that they had by RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER. There are truly no words.

Not a huge museum, but they seem to show a lot of great stuff.

It wasn't as much as I expected, maybe I got it at a bad time.

Surely the museum has seen better times before te pandemic. I think that for safety measures, not all of the museum is open. It has a very little exposition and is kind of disappointing at this point. Not worth going.

Awesome staff and great exhibitions during the "nuit blanche" .

Small museum with poor collection. It does not worth spending your money there. When they are changing exhibitions is even worth. You can literally see only a small room.

Interesting/various expositions as always. I have a 4 year student pass and I love it. It have a nice place outside to study during automn or spring btw.

I always enjoy myself here. The digital exhibits were astounding - they engaged me as art, while teaching me something about facial recognition, and a variety of other technologies. The exhibits are well selected, interesting, and the length of the museum feels just right for the $$, and my sustained interest. The sound ones, too - the Bach ball, especially - I've never seen and heard such a unique application of fairly simple digital technology.

A great place to spend some time with. The light bulb with heart frequency device is pretty interesting!

If you really love Leonard Cohen and can't stand a moment without him then go, but otherwise be forewarned. It's videos of people applauding at Cohen, a few verses of things he wrote, a hologram of Cohen and videos of interviews with Cohen. In other words: it's stuff you could probably find via google and not really worth the price of admission.

For lovers of contemporary art, beautiful permanent collection and always interesting temporary exhibitions

The price of admission is increasing, but the exhibitions are worth it.

The Leonard Cohen exhibit is really cool! I didn't know he was from Montreal.

Not much more than I thought.
Small in scale and poor in circulation.
For students, 7 $

Beautiful art in a gorgeous space. Had a great experience visiting their gallery.

See the free exhibits offered Mondays. Very crowded

I was there in May of 2017 and I saw a lot of pieces that made me feel so many different things. Art is truly the door to the soul. The staff were super friendly and helpful when I was there!

The main exhibition is closed so this is not a good time to visit.

The Rafael Lozano-Hemmer exhibition is a good show for technophiles. I have yet to see it. Half price on Wednesdays after 5pm.