Museum of the popular culture of Quebec

The Québécois Musée of popular culture is located at the downtown area of Three-Rivers in the province of Quebec (Canada). The Museum opened its doors in June 2003 and offers to the visitors two buildings on the same site. The principal building gathers six showrooms. Connected to the Museum, the Old prison of Three-Rivers, classified historic building, presents a visit experiment in prison in company of former prisoners.

Principal building

This museum proposes simultaneously six exposures and opens part of its reserve to the visitors. The exposures of the Museum are daring, nonconventional and prints of pleasure… to the manner of the Inhabitants of Quebec. The reserve of the Museum is made up of 70.000 objects of an ethnological rich person collection.

Since its opening in 2003, the Museum presented more than 25 exposures to the evocative titles: The ogre of the forest with Gaultier, Quebec all dressed, Like candy, pop Art/Pop Art, To take wood in Mauricie, Soouuuper! , RNS sculptor of tales, With fire! , Clémence, a history of solidarity, Accro of the bicycle, was this hangs one Tuesday or Sunday? , Passion of a collector, Sales of garage, the phenomenon Pass key, etc This Museum of company also has a concern for popular art.

Old woman Prison of Three-Rivers

Work of the architect François Baillargé and going back to 1822, it is classified historic building since 1978. More than one simple visit of the places, the Québécois Museum of popular culture wanted to make a single experiment of it.

The guides are ex-prisoners, rich person of their lived prison, they share with the visitors this sometimes disconcerting reality for a single visit-experiment.

The faithful reconstitution of the places, the visit of the cells and the dungeons, guide the visitors towards a strong, disconcerting and real experiment.

There the initial capacity was of approximately forty prisoners, more than one hundred could be accommodated simultaneously. Closed in 1986 for insalubrity, the Old prison of Three-Rivers was the oldest prison establishment in function in Canada.

Since the autumn 2004, the groups can there make a one night Sentence and try out more intensely the prison reality of this prison closed for insalubrity. The visitors are received by the “guard” and pass by the process of admission (digital fingerprints, photograph, handing-over of the dress of the prisoner). They are then renewed in a wing of the prison to pass the evening there. During this period, an organizer ex-prisoner accompanies the group to testify to reality. Under the supervision of the guard, they are then invited to sleep in their respective cell. The following day, they are entitled to the breakfast of the prisoner.

See too

external bond

enprison.com

Random links: