Past exhibitions
Alguier d'été
Local artist
Mélissa Longpré
October 5 to December 21, 2025
With Alguier d'été, the artist presents the results of her research into experimental printing using seaweed. The resulting monotypes form a visual and poetic inventory that combines art and science.
Memory Houses · Where They Live
In-house production
January 28 to September 21, 2025
The exhibitionMaisons Mémoire – Là Où Elles Habitent (Memory Houses – Where They Live) invitesyouto discover the history of the Babin dairy house. For this fourth edition, we have chosen to highlight matrimoine and explore the complex relationship between women and domestic life. The exhibition traces the lives of the eight Babin daughters and highlights the essential role of women in creating and maintaining the home.
Four female perspectives on the Gaspé Peninsula
Traveling exhibition
October 22 to December 15, 2024
The Musée acadien du Québec presents the exhibition Quatre regards féminins sur la Gaspésie (Four Female Perspectives on the Gaspé Peninsula), a production marking the 15th anniversary of the Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie (Gaspé Peninsula Photography Festival).
All fire, all headlights
Traveling exhibition
June 2 to October 6, 2024
The Acadian Museum of Quebec presents the traveling exhibition " Tout feu, tout phare ," produced by theMusée maritime du Québec in collaboration with photographerPatrick Matteand theCorporation des gestionnaires de phares de l’estuaire et du golfe Saint-Laurent.
Memory Houses · The Cyr House
In-house production
January 30 to May 19, 2024
The Acadian Museum of Quebec is pleased to present the third installment in its exhibition series Maisons Mémoire. This exhibition project highlights Acadian heritage through ancestral homes, and this time we present the history of theCyr House,located located in Maria, in the Gaspé Peninsula! On display from January 30 to May 19, 2024, this exhibition tells the story of the Cyr family and its role in schooner building in Baie-des-Chaleurs.
Pixel Acadia
School mediation project
December 3 to 8, 2023
The goal of the Pixel Acadie project was to encourage students to reflect on the concept of identity by creating links betweenthemuseum'spermanent exhibitionand the temporary exhibition The Universe of Captain Acadie andportraits from the museum's collection. Visual artist Bruno Mainville, was approached to carry out this mandate.
Three art classes from grades 9, 10, and 11 at École aux Quatre-Vents in Bonaventure participated in the project to create digital works based on old portraits from the MAQ collection.
The Universe of Captain Acadia
Traveling exhibition
May 30 to October 29, 2023
Watch out! A meteorite has fallen in Bonaventure, spilling a bunch of aliens and unusual objects into the Acadian Museum of Quebec! Captain Acadie comes to the rescue! This fictional comic book character has supernatural powers that allow him to protect Earth from evil forces and defend Francophone and Acadian communities from these threats. The exhibitionL’Univers de Capitaine Acadiebrings together creations from the latest volumes of the comic book series, unpublished illustrations, and animated sequences using augmented reality.
The fleeting flowers
Local artist
Émilie Bernard
February 5 to May 21, 2023
The exhibition Les fleurs passagères is the result of research carried out during creative residencies in Iceland, Banff, and Bordeaux. The project presents, in an abundance of shapes and colors, wild plants and flowers discovered during walks in the Icelandic moors, the Rockies, and the parks of Bordeaux.
Take a trip back in time
Traveling exhibition
Roussillon Archaeology Museum
June 7 to October 16, 2022
This exhibition highlights archaeological heritage and offers a digital and immersive experience for the whole family. From archaeological excavations on the seabed to the equipment and methods used by underwater archaeologists, discover an unusual profession and the hidden treasures of the St. Lawrence River.
Memory Houses · Mrs. Rose's House
In-house production
January 25 to May 29, 2022
The history of Mme Rose's houseisclosely linked to that of her garden. Cultivated for over 130 years on Henry Road in Cullens Brook (Bonaventure), it was home to four families and witnessed the evolution of domestic agriculture in Quebec. When it was built at the end of the 19th century, the vast majority of Quebec's population still lived off traditional subsistence farming, focused primarily on the needs of the family.
Return to the water
artistMaryse Goudreau
September 30 – December 20, 2021
An exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Maryse Goudreau, recipient of the CALQ Artist of the Year Award 2020 in Gaspésie. She focuses on social, political, and environmental issues. Her works navigate between photography, sound art, performance, installation, and cinema. For nearly ten years, the artist has been fascinated by beluga whales, whose social and political history she has reconstructed through the creation of a vast archive.
"And in 1948, I arrived in Canada" – The Holocaust in six dates
Traveling exhibition
Holocaust Museum in Montreal
May 30 – September 15, 2021
In six key dates, discover the steps leading from anti-Semitism to genocide and the impact on our societies. The story of men and women, their courageous attempts to resist, and their resilience.
With 10 objects and 30 minutes of video testimonials from the exceptional collectionof the Holocaust Museum in Montreal, the exhibition explores the links between World War II and genocide.
Memory Houses · The Arsenault-Gallagher House
In-house production
January 10 – May 26, 2021
The Musée acadien du Québec (MAQ) is proud to present its new project, Maisons Mémoire. This is a series of temporary exhibitions produced by the MAQ and based on historical research on houses and buildings in our region. The first temporary exhibition in the series will highlight the fabulous history of the Arsenault-Gallagher House in Petit-Bonaventure.
The sea watches over me and enchants me
Visual artist
Manon Potvin
September 20 to November 15, 2020
A native of Montreal, now living in Magog, Manon Potvin shares a strong connection to the sea through her maternal family, who are originally from Nouvelle. "The sea, the shore and its agates, the crabs and periwinkles, the crows, Pointe-aux-Corbeaux, the cottage in Miguasha—all of these things have shaped me. The Gaspé Peninsula is engraved in my soul. It is omnipresent in the imagination that inhabits my works."
Headliners
From June 14 to September 13, the Musée acadien du Québec presents Têtes d’affiche, an exhibition on the history of women in Canada.
This exhibition at the Kamouraska Regional Museum encourages visitors to discover the evolution of women's status through... hats.
At the turn of the 20th century, at a time when women had no voice and no legal rights, their hats expressed their status as much as their fantasies and sexuality. Hats became a medium for expressing their originality and identity.
Through hats from the Kamouraska Regional Museum collection, the exhibition brings together eight concepts related to the female condition: femininity, sensuality, motherhood, courage, spirituality, creativity, emancipation, and modernism.
The exhibition features around sixty hats, each one more fascinating than the last. Two large display cases also highlight a mosaic of notable Canadian women.
All provinces and territories are represented, including First Nations women.
Capture the moment
From January 19 to March 15, 2020, painter Esther Thériault and author France Cayouette from Carleton-sur-Mer are combining their talents for an exhibition at the Musée acadien du Québec.
Inspired by the East, the exhibitionEncrer l’instant (Inking the Moment)featuressome forty haigas, combining ink drawings on paper by artist Esther Thériault with haiku poems by author France Cayouette.
In keeping with the spirit of the genre, France Cayouette's haikus delicately highlight moments of grace keenly perceived in everyday life: awe at the grandeur of nature, the nobility of small daily gestures, etc.
Each of these very concrete poems, consisting of just three tiny lines, is subtly echoed in a visual creation by Esther Thériault. Inspired by the Zen tradition, she uses various tools to mark the paper with ink, exploring the figurative and the abstract, black, emptiness, and color. Her approach is spontaneous, arising from her breathing and her gestures.
Thus, inEncrer l’instant, the combination of visual works and refined poems creates a suggestive universe where traces, silences, and resonances invite contemplation and personal interpretation.
Islands
* Please note that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition was not open to the public.
From March 22 to May 17, the Musée acadien du Québec in Bonaventure presents Îles, the very first professional exhibition by Gaspé artist Louba-Christina Michel.
Originally from Chandler, Louba-Christina Michel works with several mediums, such as painting (acrylic, spray paint, ink, watercolor), writing, photography, and anything else that allows her to express herself.
The Islands exhibition is a collection of installations, paintings, photographs, and sculptures. The artist invites visitors to discover a body of work created between fall 2017 and today. Poetic threads are woven between the works, creating a unique language with philosophical and narrative undertones. The title of the exhibition stems from the artist's reflections over the past few years, namely that each person is a world unto themselves, an island to be discovered, a haven of solitude, silence, beauty, and violence.
Louba-Christina Michel questions the passage of time, movement, and relationships with bodies, places, and others. With this exhibition, the artist seeks to bring together several themes, mediums, and codes that speak on her behalf, both personally and collectively.
In addition to works created specifically for Islands, the exhibition includes traces of previously completed projects.
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