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Joliette art
Museum
Today the Musée d’art de Joliette is
recognized as Quebec’s most important
regional art museum. While pursuing the
objectives of conservation, dissemination
and research established over half a
century ago by its founders, the Musée
continues to expand its permanent
collection, which currently comprises
some 8,500 works held in four collections:
Canadian art, European art, Contemporary
art and Archaeology.
The complete transformation and
expansion of the original building
was necessary to offer of a wide range
of programs structured around the
promotion of its permanent collection and
the presentation of temporary exhibitions,
as well as a host of educational and
cultural activities for visitors of all ages.
The addition of new flexible gallery
space, animation rooms for youth, a
multipurpose café, conference rooms
and a rooftop terrace were necessary to
open up the institution to the community
and to allow it to play a larger role in the
lives of the citizens of Joliette and its
surrounding region.
Our objective to enhance the connection
between the institution and the public is
achieved by adding three new volumes
to the building that accentuate the
dynamism of the existing cruciform
composition and allows passers-by a
glimpse of the activity happening within.