Musée des Ursulines

Museum was very nice, well laid out. Elevator and washroom on each floor, one set of steps inside but there is a small lift if needed. Chapel is beautiful.

Beautiful Monastery, helpful knowledgeable person explains well. Understanding the history and the beginning of Quebec city.

Excellent museum, well maintained and full of artifacts that will show you objectively what these nuns did and another example of what Catholics missions did around the world to bring Catholicism, the catholic religion and ultimately the catholic church to all parts of the world as our Lord Jesus Christ asked of of us all Catholics. This museum is excellent because it shows that the feminist groups only destroyed woman and young girls. Instead this nuns brought education, health and more important, the catholic faith to Quebec thus evangelizing and enabling a strong society with the Catholic faith at the top of everything. Excellent museum and beautiful church next to. Highly recommended! Viva Cristo Rey y la Santisima Virgen Maria!

This chapel has a forgotten captivative painting, a must see! It depicts redemption or the purchase of white Christian slaves from the Muslim slave traders. A stunning piece of forgotten history. Front and centre of the painting is a large pile of gold coins. It is surrounded by three main characters, semingly making the trade. Two men dressed in traditional Muslim dress sit opposite of three man standing, dressed in traditional christian attire. Behind the two sitting figures, a large group of men all in disarray. White slaves are bound by their hands with chains and whipped above their heads with a whip held by their captors dressed in traditional muslim turbans. In the far background, two separate scenes depicting the torture of slaves. And in the opposite upper corner is a divine figure looking from above the clouds. The whole seen is tragic, yet, so inspiring! I would love to know more about this painting, is unfortunately there was no information provided. Hopefully the museum will change that soon.

I visited the Ursulines and Augustines monasteries on the same day and paid the same entry fee. The experiences though were not the same. The Augustines exceeded my expectations, the Ursulines did not meet them. The difference? The guided tour. While the Ursulines sometimes offers guided tours -if that day the staff is available- the museum was conceived for self-guided tours. It's a shame because the history of the place and the story of its people deserves to be known. The chapel you may visit without hesitation; it's pretty, peaceful and free.