The city’s major art museum, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, also contains a Decorative Arts section with furniture. Contemporary Québec artists display their work at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Sculpture Garden.
Gallery Jean Pierre Valentin is one of many galleries lining Sherbrooke Street, close to the Beaux-Arts Museum. The Canadian Guild of Crafts sells contemporary Inuit, Amerindian and Canadian sculptures, etchings and other fine crafts.
An old factory warehouse on St. Catherines offers a choice of galleries in one building. Belgo’s contemporary art galleries include Galerie Trois Points, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain and Galerie Elana Lee.
In Bonsecours, Old Montréal’s original market building, the Galerie des Métiers d’Art exhibits contemporary furniture, clothing and craftwork.
Co-operatives formed by groups of artists to better control the exhibition and sale of their work include SKOL on St. Catherine and the photographic gallery, Dazibao, on Berri Street.