Museum of Archaeology and History
the museum is now called Pointe-a-Calliere, but
still houses the fabulous museum of archaeology and history situated
in Old Montreal, founded in 1992, to help celebrate the city's 350th
anniversary and showcasing collections of the First Nations of the
area and is today, a national historic site. It welcomes more than
350,000 visitors a year and has been awarded over fifty national and
international awards. Permanent exhibits include; a multimedia show:
Montreal, Tales of a City, Where Montreal was Born and Montreal Love
stories-The Cultural Connection. The showpiece of the museum is the
Where Montreal was Born exhibition that brings visitors to an actual
archaeological site where the city was born, in a unique underground
route that spans six centuries of the region's history.
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