Activities and Guided tours
Free with admission - no reservations
Our guides offer tours and information sessions every day of the week. Whether it’s your first visit or thousandth, whether you’ve come alone or as a family, the Museum has the right tour for you! Reservations aren’t required, and tours are included in the price of admission.
First-timers’ Tour
You’re a new visitor and you want the full experience? This is the tour for you.
Family Tour
You’re visiting the Museum as a family and you want to combine learning with fun for all ages? This is the tour for you.
- Into the Wonder Room
- 1701 - The Great Peace of Montréal
- Crossroads Montréal, St. Lawrence Iroquoians workshop
- Archaeo-Adventure workshop
- Pirates or privateers?
Archaeological Tour
Archaeology is your thing? Here’s a tour that will take you to the heart of the remains of the birthplace of Montréal.
What’s New Tour
This isn’t your first time at the Museum. This is the tour for you if you want to experience the latest the Museum has to offer.
Schedule may vary at any time
Fort de Ville-Marie: Where Montréal Began
Presentations (20 minutes)
- Monday to Friday
- English: 3:30 pm
- French: 1 pm
- Saturday and Sunday
- English: 3:30 pm
- French: 12 pm and 2 pm
Tour of the archaeological ruins
Guided tours (60 minutes)
- Every day
- English: 2:30 pm
- French: 1 pm
Opening hours - Museum
Pirates or Privateers? exhibition
The exhibition for the general public and families is self-guided. Tours with a interpreter-guide are available for this exhibit from Monday to Friday but only for kindergarten and elementary school groups (reservations required).
