The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec translates to the Quebec national museum of fine arts. It’s located in Battlefield Park in Quebec City where the battle of the Plains of Abraham took place in 1759. One of its four buildings is a former prison, and some of its cells are preserved as clever spaces to display art.
Atrium in the old prison 
Old prison
On a balance of context, I’d say that this museum is more to my tastes than the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, another fine arts museum in the province. Not only does Quebec City’s museum of fine arts have a more effective use of space to distinguish between themes, it also has fewer works of contemporary art. If I wanted to see contemporary art, I would’ve went to the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.
The dome 
Portrait gallery
I very much enjoyed visiting the galleries in the old prison and seeing its dome. The temporary Mimèsis exhibition showed a photographer staging scenes from old works of art and producing a photographic version of it, I found that it helped me relate to the art in a modern context. Another space a really liked was the portrait gallery. The faces of people were arranged an a way that visitors had to get up close with them and read about the subject’s life and occupation, creating an illusion of intimacy with these former inhabitants of Quebec.
One of the largest paintings on display depicts the Assembly of Six Counties in 1837, however, it was painted by Charles Alexander in 1891. Over 6,000 people gathered for democratic reforms that were denied for Lower Canada by the British, despite public assemblies being banned at the time.
