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The Québec Museum of Folk Culture was created in December 2001.
The Museum offers visitors the chance to become familiar with the day-to-day experience, concerns and values of the Quebecers.
A museum to view culture in a different way, where fun leads to reflection.
The Museum offers visitors two attractions on the same site. The main building presents various exhibitions from the Museum. Adjoins the Museum, The Old Prison of Trois-Rivières, a historic monument, offers the visit-experience "Go to Jail", with former inmates.
The Québec Museum of Folk Culture is a museum about society, a theme museum, which highlights the folk culture of times past and present in all its richness and diversity. The Museum places the individual and society at the centre of its activity, in time and space.
The Museum recognizes and emphasizes all that popular culture produces, consumes and hands down in terms of material (objects, environments) and immaterial (knowledge, skills) heritage.
The Québec Museum of Folk Culture has also taken on the mandate of acquiring, preserving and documenting a national heritage of folk culture, which it highlights by means of exhibitions, cultural activities and animation. The Museum fosters, develops and supports research on folk culture.
A museum that evolves… like Québec culture. A folk museum… close to the people. A museum that promises…a wealth of surprises.
Enjoy your visit!
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