The Musée de Charlevoix (Charlevoix Museum) is a

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of art, ethnology and history located in La Malbaie, in the natural region of Charlevoix, in the province of

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, in

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. Its collection includes nearly 9000 objects and 6000 archival documents.Musée de Charlevoix, The collections
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History

Since the beginning of XX century, the Charlevoix region has been regularly attended by many artists, such as

Clarence Gagnon Clarence Alphonse Gagnon, LL. D. (November 8, 1881 – January 5, 1942) was a French Canadian painter, draughtsman, engraver and illustrator. He is known for his landscape paintings of the Laurentians and the Charlevoix region of eastern Queb ...

André Biéler André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French language, French-s ...

. As early as the 1930s, American painter Patrick Morgan (1904-1982) and his wife Maud Cabot (1903-1999) were American vacationers., who settled in “Cap-à-l'Aigle”, near La Malbaie, launches the idea of a museum dedicated to the popular art of the region.Musée de Charlevoix, the historic
/ref> In 1946, Roland Gagné, a collector from Pointe-au-Pic, near La Malbaie, created a private museum behind his home, which he named "Laure-Conan Regional Museum". This first establishment takes on a new dimension in 1975, when the collections are set up in the former La Malbaie post office. In 1990, the museum moved to a building located in Pointe-au-Pic and took the name of "Musée de Charlevoix" in 1992.

Collections

Ethnohistory

The “Musée de Charlevoix” houses an important collection of 4000 objects of Charlevoix ethnohistory. It includes furniture, clothing, toys and tools, many of which come from the personal collection of Roland Gagné. Public and private archives, old photographs, postcards and plans have been added since 1975. Chevaux de bois sculptées au musée de Charlevoix.JPG, Vire-vent au musée de Charlevoix.JPG,

Art

The museum gathers a large number of works of art, especially paintings and sculptures. These are works by well-known artists:

René Richard René Richard (1 December 1895 – 31 March 1982) was Swiss-born Canadian painter known for his semi-abstract landscapes of the Canadian wilderness and of the country around Baie-Saint-Paul in Quebec. Early years René Jeanrichard (later shortene ...

, Georges-Henry Duquet and popular artists such as Roger Ouellette and Robert Cauchon ( naive art,

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Exhibitions and events

The “Musée de Charlevoix” presents a dozen exhibitions each year. Some are devoted to artists, solo or not, others to themes of ethnohistory, still others to recent acquisitions.

References

External links

Website
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