For over a century, the McCord Stewart Museum has stood as one of Montréal’s most beloved and enduring cultural institutions — a place where the city’s past and present are brought together with curiosity, honesty, and genuine warmth. It is a museum that truly listens, bears witness, and celebrates the remarkable history, vitality, creativity, and diversity of the many communities that give this city its unmistakable soul.

Guided by a deep and sincere commitment to decolonization and sustainable development, the McCord Stewart crafts exhibitions and cultural, educational, and community-engagement activities that invite visitors to look at social history and contemporary issues through a thoughtful, critical, and inclusive lens — because understanding where we come from is inseparable from imagining where we are going.

At the heart of it all lies one of North America’s most extraordinary collections — 2.5 million images, objects, documents, and works of art spanning Archives, Documentary Art, Dress, Fashion and Textiles, Indigenous Cultures, Material Culture, and Photography. A custodian of heritage as vast as it is irreplaceable, the McCord Stewart is not simply a museum. It is Montréal’s living memory.