Educational Activities
Seniors
Discover our exhibitions, explore our collections and interact with our facilitator team at the Museum or online!
Through the educational activities available, offer your group an experience that fosters learning and openness to others by discussing historical and present-day topics.
Senior groups can enjoy participatory visits at the Museum. These activities draw inspiration from participants’ memories and life experiences and encourage dialogue. Objects are brought to life as knowledge and oral histories are shared. The Museum considers the specific needs of each group to ensure everyone’s well-being.
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Learning Centre
The McCord Stewart Museum is very pleased to be opening the doors to its new educational space, featuring three bright and inviting multipurpose rooms, made possible by the generous support of the Rossy Foundation.
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Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
reservation@mccord-stewart.ca
514 861-6701, ext. 1207
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- Dress, Fashion and Textiles
- Photography
- Indigenous Cultures
Dress, Fashion and Textiles
Guided tour | From November 14, 2024 to August 17, 2025
60 minutes
Costume Balls: Dressing Up History, 1870–1927
Discover these events and the kaleidoscopic array of characters they featured, most of whom were drawn from history and provided the chance of a lifetime for attendees to reinvent themselves as noble heroes and heroines of the past.
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Workshop | From November 14, 2024 to August 17, 2025
60 minutes
Costume tells their stories
Rely on the historical method to interpret the sociohistorical context of the costumes worn at balls from the Museum’s Dress, Fashion and Textiles collection using textual and photographic archives.
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- Dress, Fashion and Textiles
- Photography
- Indigenous Cultures
Photography
Guided tour | From April 18 to October 26, 2025
60 minutes
Pounding the Pavement: Montreal Street Photography
For years, Montreal photographers have captured everyday life in the city through their camera lenses. On the guided tour of the Pounding the Pavement: Montreal Street Photography exhibition, visitors discover the history of street photography in Montreal from the 19th century to today.
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- Dress, Fashion and Textiles
- Photography
- Indigenous Cultures
Indigenous Cultures
Guided Tour | At all times
60 minutes
Indigenous Voices of Today: Knowledge, Trauma, Resilience
Connect with Indigenous peoples. Carefully selected objects from the Museum’s Indigenous Cultures collection are combined with powerful inspiring stories from members of Québec’s 11 Indigenous nations.
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Workshop | At all times
60 minutes
My allyship in action toward Indigenous Nations
You are invited to engage in dialogue to become more aware of Indigenous realities and identify concrete actions for reconciliation, thanks to this workshop developed in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
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Workshop | At all times
90 minutes
Looking after our stories in Montreal/Tiohtiá:ke
Looking after our stories in Montreal/Tiohtiá:ke is a citizen-centred co-construction workshop that turns a spotlight on the rarely told stories of the city’s Chinese, Afrodescendant and Indigenous communities.
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