McCord Stewart Museum
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| Established | 1921 |
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| Location | 690 Sherbrooke Street West next to McGill University, in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
| Type | public research and teaching museum |
| Website | www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/ |
The McCord Museum (in French, Musée McCord) is a public research and teaching museum dedicated to the preservation, study, diffusion, and appreciation of Canadian history. The museum, whose full name is McCord Museum of Canadian History, is located at 690 Sherbrooke Street West (45°30′15.80″N 73°34′24.60″W / 45.5043889°N 73.5735000°W), next to McGill University, in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The museum was founded in 1921 by David Ross McCord, based on his own family collection of objects. Since then the museum's holdings have increased substantially, and now counts:
- 13,200 ethnological and archaeological objects
- 16,600 objects in the costume and textiles collection
- the Notman Photographic Archives, originally collected by photographer William Notman, which contains over 450,000 photographs taken between 1840 and 1935.
- 65,000 paintings, prints and drawings
- 28,000 objects in the decorative arts collection
- 4,000 documentary files.
The museum's exterior features the sculpture Totem urbain / histoire en dentelle, an allegorical representation of Montreal history, by Pierre Granche.
History
On October 13, 1921 the McCord National Museum, as it was then called, moved to the former McGill Union building, designed by Percy Erskine Nobbs in the Arts and Crafts tradition.[1] The collection was based on the McCord family collection. Since 1878, David Ross McCord had been adding to the already considerable collection assembled by his family since their arrival in Canada. Over the years he developed the plan of founding a national history museum in Montreal, at that time Canada's metropolis.
The museum was administered by McGill University for over sixty years until it became a private museum. Leading members of the community, including the families of Walter M. Stewart, Thomas H.P. Molson and John W. McConnell, lent their support to the Museum over the years. Today, the McCord Museum is supported by the governments of Canada, Quebec and Montreal, and by a large network of members, donors and sponsors.
Affiliations
The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.
References
- ^ Wagg, Susan (1982). PERCY ERSKINE NOBBS Architect, Artist, Craftsman (HTML). Kingston and Montreal: McCORD MUSEUM, McGill University by McGILL - QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS. ISBN 0-7735-0395-1. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
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