The Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts (french: Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke) is an

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Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional count ...

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, Canada. It is located at 241 Dufferin Street in downtown Sherbrooke. The museum receives funding from the City of Sherbrooke, the Quebec Ministry of Culture and Communications and from its members.

History

The Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1982 by local art lovers. It is the main institution in the

Estrie Estrie () is an administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships. ''Estrie'', a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of ''est'', "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 per cent francophone. Angl ...

region for the display and conservation of art. It was accredited by the Quebec Ministry of Culture and Communications in March 1990. In 1996, it relocated to the former head office of the

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, a building constructed in 1876. The building was completely renovated to convert it into a museum.

Collection and exhibits

The Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts has over 4,600 works in its collection. There are three rooms in the museum, one on each floor of the building. On the third floor is a permanent exhibit entitled "''Spaces and Landscapes''", and is dedicated to the work of

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as well as a contemporary art collection donated by Luc LaRochelle. The other two rooms present ten temporary exhibits per year. The works at the museum consist of works by local artists from the

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region, works inspired by the Eastern Townships, and national and international native art.

References

External links

Official website
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