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Cost : $ 20
Located on McGill University’s downtown campus at the base of Mount Royal,
Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) is home to McGill's historic humanities and social sciences library collections. RBSC collects a broad range of materials, from manuscript and published works to puppets, and is particularly strong in holdings related to Montreal and Canada, the history of printing, natural history, Enlightenment philosophy, and architecture. Enjoy a curator-led tour of collection highlights, with a special focus on Montreal’s history and built environment through books, photographs, and archives. We will finish the tour with a quick visit to the Book Arts Lab, featuring our refurbished 1821 Columbian printing press.
Spend a little extra time in the Visual Arts Collection’s Visible Storage Gallery before entering the Rare Books & Special Collections reading room on the 4th floor of McLennan Library. You can also expand your visit with a self-guided virtual tour of Indigenous art on public display at McGill. This interactive map highlights Indigenous art across campus from the McGill Visual Arts Collection:
https://www.mcgill.ca/vacollection/indigeous-art-public-display-mcgill McGill University is an English language, public university founded in 1821. Learn more about the university:
www.mcgill.ca/about and McGill Libraries:
www.mcgill.ca/libraries.
Transportation : not provided. Tour guides will meet the group at the hotel and walk together to McGill campus (approximately 20 minutes, walking outdoors, slight incline). Alternatively, participants may wish to share an Uber (approximately 10 minutes).
Destination address:
McLennan Library Building, 4th floor, 3459 McTavish Street, Montreal, H3A 0C9.
Important Information: The tour is planned as a walk-through of the Visible Storage Gallery, special collections reading room, classroom, and letterpress lab, located on the 4th floor of the McLennan Library Building. Elevator accessible. Visitors should be prepared for walking and standing during the visit; chairs available on request.
Tours will be offered in English, and guides will be pleased to answer questions in French.
$ All costs are in USD.
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Specimen of printing types and ornaments, in use at the printing office of Lovell & Gibson, Montreal, 1846.
