Museums Across Quebec Receive Federal Financial Support

The Government of Canada supports several Quebec museums

MONTRÉAL, Aug. 21, 2019 /CNW/ - The Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism, today highlighted total funding of $1,247,726 for 33 museum projects across Quebec. This funding for the 2019–2020 fiscal year will support new projects as well as others already in progress. The financial support has been granted under three components of Canadian Heritage's Museums Assistance Program: the Exhibition Circulation Fund, Access to Heritage and Collections Management.

Some of the projects will allow the public to appreciate the diverse range of exhibitions and activities at different Quebec museums, while others will improve the working environment of professionals at museum institutions.

Quotes

"Museums across Canada and Quebec play a central role in the vitality of our communities. As well as being important drivers of tourism, these institutions preserve and share our history and knowledge. That is why our government intends to keep supporting them."

—The Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism

Quick Facts

The Museums Assistance Program supports heritage institutions and workers in order to preserve and exhibit heritage collections. The program fosters the preservation of Indigenous cultural heritage and facilitates access to heritage collections for all Canadians. It also promotes the development of knowledge, skills and professional practices related to key museum functions.

The Exhibition Circulation Fund component assists museums with the costs related to the hosting of travelling exhibitions originating from another museum or from a federal heritage institution, and the borrowing of artifacts from the Canadian Museum of History or the Canadian War Museum.

The Access to Heritage component promotes wider access to heritage by creating links between different geographic areas of Canada. Eligible projects are connected to travelling exhibitions to help heritage organizations reach out to new audiences.

The Collections Management component aims to improve professional knowledge, skills and practices, and to strengthen professional standards related to key museum functions for collections management in Canada. It also supports organizations in the development and dissemination of resources or the provision of services that will benefit many museums.

Data Table

Museums Assistance Program	Total $1,247,726 33 projects
Exhibition Circulation Fund	$139,119 10 projects
Access to Heritage	$810,294 15 projects
Collections Management	$298,313 8 projects

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Museums Assistance Program

Backgrounder

Exhibition Circulation Fund

Organization	Project	City	Amount 2019–2020
Centre de la biodiversité du Québec	Panaches, caribous et autres cervidés du Canada	Bécancour	$15,000
Corporation culturelle de Shawinigan	AU POIL / Une exposition qui décoiffe!	Shawinigan	$15,000
Corporation de la chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours et du Musée Marguerite-Bourgeoys	Welcome, set-up and exhibition promotion Colle, papier, ciseau du Musée des religions du monde de Nicolet	Montréal	$15,000
Corporation du Moulin Légaré	Snapshots of Canada	Saint-Eustache	$15,000
Musée acadien du Québec	Presentation of the exhibition Amen nous la coupe	Bonaventure	$12,500
Musée de société des Deux-Rives	Presentation of the exhibition Femmes de papier	Salaberry-de-Valleyfield	$10,519
Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent	La Révolution Borduas	Rivière-du-Loup	$11,100
Musée minéralogique et minier de Thetford Mines	Hosting the exhibition Vrai ou faux? Sous la loupe de la science	Thetford Mines	$15,000
Pointe-du-Buisson / Musée québécois d'archéologie	Hosting the exhibition Les Minéraux	Beauharnois	$15,000
Musée québécois de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation	La science a bon goût	La Pocatière	$15,000
Total:			$139,119

Access to Heritage

Organization	Project	City	Amount 2019–2020
Canadian Centre for the Great War	"After the War": Coming Home and Fitting in at the End of the Great  War	Montréal	$6,942
Corporation soreloise du patrimoine régional	La nature du Saint-Laurent	Sorel-Tracy	$131,103
Écomusée de la Maison du fier monde	Une vision, des histoires – 35 ans du Fonds de solidarité FTQ	Montréal	$51,282
Écomusée de la Maison du fier monde	Déjouer la fatalité – familles, institutions, entraide	Montréal	$46,665
Fondation J. Armand Bombardier	Biomimicry: Innovation by Imitation	Valcourt	$48,488
Montréal Holocaust Museum	Tell me a Story! Youth Literature and Holocaust	Montréal	$10,375
Le Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul	La Révolution Borduas	Baie-Saint-Paul	$6,392
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal	Rétrospective Françoise Sullivan	Montréal	$85,551
Musée de la nature et des sciences	Creation and touring of the travelling exhibition VIBRASON L'Esprit du son	Sherbrooke	$106,080
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts	Creation and touring of the travelling exhibition Rencontres nordiques : Riopelle à travers le Canada	Montréal	$170,000
Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke inc.	Adaptation and touring of the exhibition Clémence DesRochers. De la factrie au musée	Sherbrooke	$11,450
Musée des ondes Émile Berliner	Montréal in Space	Montréal	$7,287
Musée d'histoire, d'ethnographie et d'art religieux de Nicolet	Touring of the exhibition Amen nous la coupe	Nicolet	$32,333
Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent	Love and life: Robert Roussil	Rivière-du-Loup	$41,946
Société du Musée d'archéologie et d'histoire de Montréal Pointe-à-Callière	Touring of the exhibition Fragments d'humanité. Archéologie du Québec	Montréal	$54,400
Total:			$810,294

Collections Management

Organization	Project	City	Amount 2019–2020
La Cinémathèque québécoise	Reserve redevelopment	Montréal	$49,589
Le Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul	Digitization of the Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul collection	Baie-Saint-Paul	$30,578
Musée des ondes Émile Berliner	Shelving and database update for the MOEB	Montréal	$49,616
Musée québécois de culture populaire	Processing and packing 25,000 artifacts from the Collection	Trois-Rivières	$6,849
Musée québécois de culture populaire	Processing and packing 25,000 items from the Collection, phase 3	Trois-Rivières	$42,057
Regroupement des loisirs culturels et scientifiques du Témiscamingue	Entrepofoss	Notre-Dame-du-Nord	$19,624
Société des musées du Québec	Annual conference : [Re]placer l'humain au centre des actions muséales	Montréal	$50,000
Société du Musée d'archéologie et d'histoire de Montréal Pointe-à-Callière	Implementation of the Cumulus image management and digitization system	Montréal	$50,000
Total:			$298,313

SOURCE Canadian Heritage

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