A Voice for Youth in Montréal
Montréal is embedding youth perspectives into cultural policymaking through two initiatives: 'A Library That Looks Like Me' and the 'Manifesto of Montréal Youth for the Arts and Culture'. These.
Chinatown: How Montréal is safeguarding this historic cultural district
Like many Chinatowns in cities, Montreal’s Chinatown – the only French-speaking Chinatown in the Americas – faces pressures from gentrification and redevelopment. Since 2019, the City of Montreal has.
Museum Expansion: How Montréal tripled its city museum size, team and programming co-created by citizens
Between 2019 and 2024, Montreal transformed its city museum into MEM – Centre des mémoires montréalaises. Now located in the Quartier des spectacles, MEM tripled in size and was.
How Can Cities Scale Up Creative Approaches to Health?
The benefits of culture to our health are well-known. Whether through performing arts for dementia patients in Edinburgh, museum prescriptions for mental health in Montreal, or art therapy for.
Montréal’s hyperlocal cultural policy keeps an eye on the big picture
Project: building new models of co-creation and shared governance
The PurposeThe goal is to enhance the Cultural Neighbourhoods program in Montréal by exploring different options of shared governance models for.
How Montréal’s department of culture tackled pandemic isolation
Montréal's Department of Culture wanted to find a safe and creative way to bring citizens together and create spaces for collaboration and resource exchange between local government, artists and.
TRENDS
Developing Public Spaces
Montréal is continuing to invest in year round outdoor cultural and festival programming through the development and renovation of public spaces. There is a particular focus on.
INFRASTRUCTURE
The Maisonneuve Library is currently undergoing a renovation of its historic features and expansion, which will triple its footprint with two new wings and outdoor space. The project was.
Cultural players help shape Montréal’s game-changing equity index
A comprehensive review of diversity in Montreal's cultural organisations and festivals, to create a tool that provides an accurate understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts by cultural organisations.
Montréal
At the heart of the city's cultural offerings lies the Quartier des Spectacles cultural district. It houses 85 institutional and cultural partners, including performance venues, museums, galleries, cinemas,.