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Downtown Montreal Attractions

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is Montreal's biggest museum. Its principal building, which sits directly opposite the original 1912 pavilion, was built by Montreal's most famous modern architect, Moshe Safdie in 1991.

Downtown business core consists of skyscrapers built from the early 1960's to the late 1990's, mainly along Boulevard René-Lévesque. Among them, Place Ville Marie (I. M. Pei and Henry N Cobb, 1962) is perhaps the most recognizable.

The following are the attractions in Downtown Montreal that we profiled:

Place Ville Marie - 1 Place Ville Marie
Built between 1957 and 1962, the cruciform tower was one of the first skyscrapers in Montreal.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - 1380 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Founded in 1860, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal) shows the work of Canadian and international artists. It is Montreal's largest museum.