The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal) is a great source of pride to Montreal. Founded in 1860, it was one of the first museums in North America to gather an encyclopedic collection worthy of the name. Since then, its holdings have grown to close to 36,000 objects – paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, drawings, and decorative art objects dating from Antiquity to today.
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