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| - My partner and I were killing time while in Montreal for our final day, and I am glad we were able to check out the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. I'm not really one for many art museums, but this complex of buildings had enough to keep us occupied for a few hours and then some.
Honestly, if you are a tourist only going here once, you need at least four or five hours to see everything in all the buildings here. Because he only had about three, we unfortunately had to pick and choose which exhibits to see. I will say that the Napoleon exhibit was tremendous. You were able to see his own tricolor hat and shirts, and even the boots that he wore. There were a lot of other ephemera from the Napoleonic era and Napoleon's life. I thought that was very cool, and the MFA must have some very dedicated patrons to have put together such a comprehensive exhibit.
While of course exhibits do change, while we were there, there was a big exhibit on Expressionism. It was the main draw for a lot of the people, and it definitely was crowded with people. However, I can see why it was so popular, because it, too, was comprehensive and told a long story of the Expressionist movement until WW2.
They also had a Andy Warhol exhibit, but I don't know if that is in the permanent collection or a roaming exhibit. We didn't have time to look at it in-depth, because the museum was unfortunately closing at that time. That just goes to say that how interesting the exhibits are here that we were looking at them even until the museum was closing.
Overall, we had a great time at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and recommend it to any tourists in Montreal.
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