Battle of the Châteauguay
National Historic Site
Beauharnois Generating Station
Biophare
Blockhaus de la rivière-Lacolle
Chambly Canal
National Historic Site
Coteau-du-Lac
National Historic Site
Électrium, the Hydro-Québec Electricity Interpretation Centre
Exporail, The Canadian Railway Museum
Expression, Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe
Fort Chambly
National Historic Site
Fort Lennox
National Historic Site
La Maison amérindienne
Maison Lenoblet-du-Plessis
Maison LePailleur
Maison nationale des Patriotes
Missisquoi Museum
Musée des beaux-arts
de Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Musée du costume
et du textile du Québec
Musée du Haut-Richelieu
Musée régional
de Vaudreuil-Soulanges
Muséobus,
the Children’s Museum
MUSO – Musée de société
des Deux-Rives
Plein sud, Centre d’exposition en art actuel
Quebec Museum of Archaeology
Saint-Ours Canal
National Historic Site
Preschool
Getting to know the museum
This activity invites young visitors to make use of their five senses as they explore the museum’s exhibitions.
Elementary, Cycle 1
Québec decoys: Ducks that are sure to please
This exhibition displays 140 decoys selected from the museum’s collection and a reconstruction of the duck’s natural habitat. This serves as a basis for discussions with students about the environment and ecology. A soundtrack helps them learn to distinguish the calls of certain ducks and birds that live in wetlands.
Back to class
This activity lets students experience what school was like in the early 1900s, enabling them to make comparisons with their own school life. They can also have their photographs taken, dressed like schoolchildren of yesteryear.
The rhythm of the seasons
This activity shows students how patterns of rural life were shaped by the seasons in the 1850-1950 period. Using objects in the museum’s collection, they learn about various seasonal activities, such as haying, maple sugaring, blacksmithing and ice cutting.
Cutting ice
With the use of period tools and colourful paintings by artist Marcel Bradley, this activity introduces students to methods for conserving food in the 19th and 20th centuries.
In-class activities, Elementary
The Amerindians (Cycles 2 and 3)
Using objects and illustrations, a museum guide leads an activity in which students discover several aspects of Amerindian societies, including their culture and customs.
Life on the seigneury (Cycles 2 and 3)
This workshop invites students to learn about the men and women who left France to settle in New France. Through objects and visual aids, students are introduced to daily life in the seigneurial regime.
Family resemblances (all Cycles)
This workshop takes students into the world of inventions, developed to make life easier or more pleasant, and shows how former inventions are related to those we use today.
What’s for supper? (all Cycles)
This workshop gives students a better understanding of our ancestors’ food habits and the food-related objects they used. Students also have a chance to make butter.
Daily threads (all Cycles)
This workshop introduces students to certain old-fashioned crafts, such as needlework, weaving and braiding.
Cost: $4.00 per student, free for accompanying teachers
Length of activity: 1 hour or more, depending on activity
Reservations: (450) 455-2092 or 1 877 455-2092