Did you know that the Château Ramezay – Historic Site and Museum of Montréal was selected by a team of experts, in collaboration with UNESCO, as one of the 1001 historic sites you must see before you die?
Relive more than 500 years of history through its numerous exhibits, its multimedia portrayals of historical figures (available in six languages) and its French colonial style garden.
In 1705, Montreal governor Claude de Ramezay built this home, along with its large orchard and garden. Over the next three centuries, luminaries such as Canadian governor-general Lord Elgin and Québécois poet Émile Nelligan passed through its doors. In 1895, the house became a museum, and it is now one of the few Montreal buildings from the early days of New France that you can tour. Educational activities and multilingual exhibitions draw on the museum’s collection of roughly 30,000 historical artifacts to illustrate the history of Montreal and Quebec—and show us how the rich and famous of the past lived.
