Free Time (3-6 pm)

Sites to visit above the Ramparts:

Chateau Frontenac

Funicular      

Musée de l'Amérique francaise                                                                       $6/ st $3.50 #

Current Exhibitions

                  The St. Lawrence Iroquoians Corn People

                  Séminaire de Québec, Wisdom and Works

                              The History of the Séminaire de Québec Collections

                  A Glimpse of the Past (Life of the Séminaire de Québec) 

                  The Settling of French America

Augustines de l’Hotel-Dieu                                                                            Free

            & Blessed Catherine de Saint-Augustin Center

Ursuline Museum                                                                                            $6/ st $4

            & Blessed Marie-de-l’Incarnation Information Center         

***A French Prof. Anne McConnell best bet!

"I love the Musée des Ursulines (open only from 1:00-4:40 P.M. right now). The actual museum was built on the site where Marie de l’Incarnation (the first superior in New France and an author of mystic texts) built their first school in 1644 (after arriving in 1639). These brave women (there were very few in the colony at that time) founded the first girls’ school in the colony, in which they taught both Native American girls and the daughters of colonists as the colony grew. Some of them were true artists, and since they could express their talents only in “womanly” activities, they embroidered priestly vestments, altar cloths, etc., many of which are on exhibit. There is a statue of Marie de l’Incarnation in the tiny garden by the entrance, with her hands on the shoulders of her pupils. It is still an Ursuline convent and school. From a hotel I stay in, if I’m lucky enough to get a room in back, I can see the large walled garden and orchard tended by the Ursulines."

Current Exhibitions:

                  Blessed Marie-de-l’Incarnation Information Center

                  The Ursulines in New-France: Mission and Passion

                  Red and Black, the Colours of the Passion

Quebec Experience (30 min- 3:15, 4:45 pm)                                                  $7.50/ st $5

Sites to visit below the Ramparts in the Basse-Ville:

Notre-Dame des Victoires                                                                              Free

***"Just walking around the Basse-Ville is wonderful (visit the Notre-Dame-des-Victoires church, with its square boasting a

bust of Louis XIV and an outline of the placement of the habitation built by Champlain in 1608)."

Centre d’interprétation de Place-Royale                                                        $5/ st $3.50 #

Current Exhibitions:

                  No Place Like It (History of Place-Royale)

                  Three Centuries of Trade

Musée de la civilisation                                                                                   $10/ st $7 # 

***Another McConnell best bet!

"One place that’s great is in the Basse-Ville: the Musée de la Civilisation. Just the architecture (incorporating a colonial-era stone house) – ultra modern, but fitting in with its gables and its “river” running inside. The permanent exhibit on the development of the culture of Québec is wonderful. "

Current Exhibitions:

                  Territories (Quebecers relationship with the Land)

                  People of Québec...then and Now

                  Encounter with the First Nations

                  Québec Cinema: The Whole Story  

                  Dragons: between Science and Fiction

# combination rate      $16/ st $10.50