Facing Champlain, A Work in 3 Dimensions

This exhibition will bring the city’s founder back to life, along with his dreams, plans, partners, enemies, and the lands he explored 400 years ago. Come meet him at Place-Royale!

Presented in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada, producer of the film and major partner of the exhibition.

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Three Centuries of Trade

How many beaver pelts to buy a rifle? What's castor gras? Who were the merchants of Place-Royale? What did the colony import from Morocco, Syria, and Germany? You'll find answers to these questions and many more at this exhibit.

Place-Royale: A Growing Concern

Retrace the rapid expansion of Place-Royale, the narrow but strategic strip of land sandwiched between Cape Diamond and the St. Lawrence River. With its port and military facilities and its farmer’s markets, Place-Royale experienced growth, decline, and rebirth over the course of three centuries.

No Place Like It

Over the centuries, Place-Royale has played host to natives, early French settlers, British immigrants, Québec City residents and visiting travelers. Explore the many facets of their lives and relive the history of this unique and lively neighborhood.

A Sense of the Past

A Sense of the Past, a permanent exhibition at the Maison Chevalier presents Quebec interiors from the 18th and 19th centuries produced from the Musée de la civilisation’s collections. Admirably well re-created interiors enable visitors to see and understand how people lived in another era.

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Place-Royale in 1800

Find out what daily life was like for master cooper Charles-Édouard Grenier and his family 200 years ago. Don period costumes, take on roles, and discover how they lived, ate, dressed, and slept.