Furniture, pottery, silverware, glass, fine china, toys... The extremely varied objects included in the Decorative Arts collection document the material environment within which Montrealers, Quebeckers and Canadians lived in centuries past.

Emphasis is on objects that effectively illustrate the country and its evolution from a largely rural colonial community to the increasingly urbanized and industrialized society of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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• Around 38,900 objects: furniture, glassware, ceramics, ironware, sculpture, hunting equipment, sports equipment, items of folk art, etc.
• A major collection of 19th-century toys.

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