Québec City's culture runs deeper than its ramparts: a Rem Koolhaas art wing on the Plains, Robert Lepage's theatre behind a 1907 façade, and Wendat longhouses 20 minutes north. Three days of galleries, stages and studios across Vieux-Québec, Saint-Roch and Wendake.
Four pavilions on the edge of the Plains, including OMA's 2016 Pierre Lassonde wing with its cascading glass hall. Holds the largest Jean-Paul Riopelle collection anywhere plus Inuit art from the Brousseau gift. Open 10:00–17:00, Wednesdays to 21:00.
A neo-Gothic Wesleyan chapel of 1848 turned all-white public library by Chevalier Morales in 2015: mezzanines float inside the nave and a glass writers' studio adjoins it. Free entry, open Tuesday to Sunday, café on site.
Moshe Safdie's 1988 building folds a stone-vaulted 18th-century house and an old bank into its atrium. The permanent show 'C'est notre histoire' covers the 11 Indigenous nations of Québec; rotating exhibitions fill six more halls.
A three-metre-wide lane between the basilica and Place d'Armes where roughly 30 juried artists have hung watercolours, etchings and pastels since 1958. Painters work on site and prices start around $40 for small prints.
Canada's oldest museum, founded in 1806 inside the Séminaire de Québec, holds 500 years of francophone North America — silverwork, scientific instruments and Egyptian mummies bought by 19th-century priests for teaching.
Victor Prus's 1971 brutalist concrete box holds Jordi Bonet's three-wall mural 'La Mort, l'Espace, la Liberté', 1,200 m² of concrete relief carrying poet Claude Péloquin's carved provocation. Lobby open free on performance days.
Restored 1639 Augustinian monastery, still a working hotel and museum. Vaulted cellars display apothecary jars, surgical instruments and 40,000 objects from the nursing sisters who founded the first hospital north of Mexico.
Robert Lepage's 2019 theatre on Place D'Youville, built behind the 1907 YMCA façade with a 600-seat hall and no fixed proscenium. Ex Machina premieres new work here and the glass lobby bar looks straight onto Porte Saint-Jean.
In Wendake, 20 minutes north, the museum sits beside a reconstructed longhouse where Wendat guides explain clan structure, wampum belts and the fur trade. The combined ticket covers the longhouse and the Kabir Kouba falls trail.
Year-round market in the 1923 Pavillon du Commerce at ExpoCité: around 100 stalls of Île d'Orléans cider, maple products, Charlevoix cheeses and fresh tourtières. Open daily; producers set up early and fish counters sell out.
Saint-Roch's civic library reopened in 2024 after a $65M rebuild, adding a rooftop terrace, recording studios and commissioned public art. Outside, large murals and the sunken Jardin Saint-Roch anchor the district's art scene.
Saint-Roch bar, gallery and 200-capacity concert room on Rue Saint-Joseph where Québec indie bands and electronic acts play most nights. Tapas and natural wine before the show; the gallery space rotates local artists monthly.