Musée des hospitalières

The Museum presents the history of medicine in Quebec, from New France to the 20th century, and invites you to discover the fate of the exceptional women who founded and administered Montreal’s first hospital. Located at the foot of Mount Royal and in the heart of the Hospitallers’ convent complex, the Museum is part of the unmissable panorama of Montreal’s religious heritage.

The Museum offers guided tours of the former Hospitallers’ chapel and crypt, where the graves of more than 500 nuns and Jeanne Mance, founder of Montreal and co-founder of the Hôtel-Dieu, are buried.

The monastery’s garden is accessible during the summer for guided tours. The Museum also offers a walking tour of Old Montréal, following in the footsteps of the first Hôtel-Dieu built on Saint-Paul Street.

Activities for families are offered at all times.

The Escalier de La Flèche, from the Hôtel-Dieu de La Flèche in France, the hospital from which the first three Hospitallers arrived in 1659 in Montreal, can be seen free of charge in the Museum’s lobby.