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Montreal - Pointe-à-Callière Museum

Inaugurated in 1992 as part of Montreal’s 350^th birthday celebrations, the Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History shows collections of artefacts from the First Nations of the Montreal region that illustrate how various cultures coexisted and interacted and how the French and British regimes influenced the history of this territory over the years. The museum is located in Old Montreal, where the city was born, and has been recognised as a national historic site since 1998.

The museum is regarded as one of the most important of its kind in Canada and has won numerous awards for its exhibits. The Éperon, a modern building that makes up part of the museum complex has won many architectural awards. The museum also contains a series of historic buildings and sites including Montreals first Catholic cemetary, the birthplace of the city, archeological sites, historic buildings and over a million archeological artefacts.

http://www.pacmuseum.qc.ca/index.aspx?lang=EN-CA