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Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
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The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal has reopened at its new downtown address: Place Ville Marie

The new location for one of Montreal's premiere destinations for contemporary art is open for visitors until renovations are completed in 2024.

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As of December 1, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) is once again welcoming the public to peruse its curations of artist both national and international, but with one big difference: The museum is now found at its temporary premises on the ground level of Place Ville Marie in Downtown Montreal, the time to carry out work which is scheduled for completion in 2024.

Announced back in April this year, the move allows the museum to remain active and present throughout its original location's renovation period. Fun face: Place Ville Marie was the venue for the MAC’s first exhibition, which was a retrospective on French artist Georges Rouault in March 1965.

All told, the MAC's new address is 11,000 square feet of exhibition space that's free for visitors aged 17 and under, people with disabilities and their companions, and school and community groups. Everyone else must pay a flat rate of $10 to visit.

The museum will offer two exhibitions per year: The first work of opening comes from the London-based research collective Forensic Architecture and American filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras, Terror Contagion, an audiovisual analysis and documentation of worldwide human rights violations, environmental crimes and state, police and corporate violence with narration by Edward Snowden and a sonification by Brian Eno—this exhibition focuses on cyber violence exerted by the United States on activists, journalists and opposition. 

This exhibition will be on display until April 18, 2022.

The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is now open at 1 Place Ville Marie at the corner of Mansfield and Cathcart, open from Tuesday to Friday from 11am to 7pm and Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5pm (closed on Mondays).

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