It is raining here in Montreal. It is a complete change from the warm, sunny day and warm evening we had last night. So we are adjusting our plans accordingly
After breakfast we walked to the Marche Bonsecours, down Rue Saint-Paul, from our hotel. We thought that it would be a market but instead it was more of a small shopping mall with shops. In the basement was a gallery of art by the First Nations tribes of Quebec. They include Iroquois, Huron, Cree, Mohawk, Inuit and others that I can not remember. The art is moving. One artist did an oil of tree and the Aurora Borealis, very colorful. Another work was of birch trees with autumn leaves in a style similar to Van Gogh.
A woman at the gallery suggest we go to the Pointe-a-Calliere, an archeology museum. So after a brief stop at the hotel and a coffee at Starbucks we went to the museum. The museum is built above an archeological dig of early Montreal. At one point it was the site of a guard house of the fortification surrounding the early settlement. Later a storehouse was built on the same site. I. The basement you could see the early foundations that had been uncovered as well as exhibits explaining the progression of Montreal. It was very interesting to see, especially how they built the museum above this site while preserving it in place at the same time. Other exhibits we saw at the museum included the Samurai and the Etruscans. We marveled at the Samurai armor and sword making as well at the 8th century BC metal work of the Etruscans.
No comments:
Post a Comment