This is a museum on the McGill campus that showcases a variety of different items like rocks, fossils, animals, etc. There is an entrance fee by donation. The museum itself is quite small (only 3 levels) and took me less than 1 hour to go through it. The architecture is quite interesting as the building is quite old (the museum opened in 1882!) Overall, a pretty interesting museum. It's not super modern obviously, but showcases some interesting things. read more

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Pretty small, three-story museum on the McGill campus. Its design is gorgeous and its exhibits are well laid out, descriptive, and quite interesting. I had a great time looking at the exhibits and not feeling rushed or crowded. I took about an hour and a half to explore but you could easily spend an hour longer if you were to read through every description. It is free but there is a suggested donation (of any amount) if you wish. read more

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An entry fee is not necessary - all you need is to drop a donation in a box. The museum is spread over 3 levels. So better pack some time for the countless artifacts spread all around. Some very very old and some very rare. Nice campus as well. read more

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This museum is interesting, but a little stuffy and maybe not the best for super young folks or someone who prefers a little more modern of a museum. I could see how some archaeology and natural history enthusiasts would love this museum. I was a history student as well, but this museum was a little bit soporific even for me. It was very cramped and old-fashioned, but pretty relaxing to walk through which is nice but does not lend to the most exciting of a visit. However, Redpath did have a few very interesting exhibits with artifacts, fossils, mummies, dinosaur skeletons, etc. I do recommend it as a quick stop, but do not expect to have the highlight of your vacation here. read more

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We came here on a Thursday afternoon and it was nice to see that there were also students visiting the museum. Unfortunately, the museum is not currently accessibility friendly but they are planning on updating the building with elevators in the near future. The museum is also free to whoever wants to visit but they do have a donations box at the front. This museum has 3 floors with different things to look at. My boys were very amused! read more

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On campus museum on McGill. Free entrance but donations welcomed. I actually take my dad here when he comes to visit as it's one of the places he likes in Montreal. They also offer some activities for kids on the main floor that might interest local families and encourage kids to learn. read more

Musée Redpath - Museums Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

It's a nice enough museum with a nice collection, but coming here on a hot, humid day in July probably soured my experience. The Redpath Museum is one of the oldest museums in Canada, with a varied collection of fossils, minerals, and human artifacts. It's a small collection, but it is presented well. Many of the items come from Canada. Admission is free with a suggested donation of $10/adult. A tad steep, IMO, but if that's what is necessary to pay the bills. This museum is worth your time if you're already nearby and want to see something unique on a not-so-hot day. But it's not worth going out of your way for it or adding it to an already-busy day of museums and sights. And you sure as heck don't want to visit on a hot day like I did, as the building isn't air conditioned. read more

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Pretty nice museum and lots of things to see for its size. It is free admission, but donations are highly recommended. I came here in the summer when renovations were being made to the building's interior. Though it was in construction, we were still able to see the museum! I enjoyed that it didn't take super long to walk through. P.S. if you come in the summer, it gets pretty hot inside (no ac, just fans)! read more

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There is some amazing stuff inside the museum. And it's fun to have a publicly accessible destination on the McGill campus. As a museum though, it's a bit rough around the edges. Perhaps that's because too few visitors actually make anywhere close to the $10 donation recommended, but not required, at the door. And maybe I'm just spoiled by free University museums. When I think about the collections and facilities at Yale or Princeton, this really doesn't quite measure up. Still, there are some artifacts that I'm glad we saw. Plus the architecture is fantastic. Or perhaps I'm a bit sour my experience because we visited on a hot day, and the fans in the un-airconditioned building just weren't cutting it. If you have limited time, and want to take in some culture on the cheap, I'd argue that you're better off taking a walking tour of Montreal's incredible public art. read more

A must visit while in Montreal! We are all about university collections of natural history and this was a wonderful display. It was a little difficult to find, but a very helpful McGill student helped us. Thsnk you!!! This is a self guided and go on your own unattended place and it was easy to spend a few hours wandering, exploring and learning. They have tons of gems, fossils, mummies, bones and fabrics. It is a very unassuming place but it holds some truly items. It is free and open to all - as it should be! It is spread throughout 3 floors with restrooms in the basement. Plenty of places to sit and admire the items. When we were there, we saw a young boy sketching one of the displays. Charming! I highly recommend! Great for kids and lovers of knowledge. read more

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I was very excited to visit the campus at McGill as it's got some great history and architecture. If you're wandering around and want something with extra interest this is the place. If you love anything natural history stop by. There is anthropology, geology, entomology, and dinosaurs! It's also very quiet and calm so it was a good break after walking through downtown. read more

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Absolutely loved this "free" museum. They do ask for a reasonable donation to help maintain the building and exhibits. The kids had a wonderful time with the wide variety of history and present exhibits of nature and culture. It is very kid friendly just need to remind the little to keep hands off of all the glass as it could break. They were so excited to see the whale bones up close. Then, climb a few steps to see dinosaurs and a few more for different cultural events. Overall, a fun educational experience for kids and adults. read more

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This is such a beautiful museum!!! It's like the movies! It is peaceful and sweet, it really is so lovely. The second floor blew me away. This museum has 3 floors: The first is a simple, small place with skulls from large mammals. Washrooms downstairs. The second floor is ocean and rocks, prehistoric, and Canadian animals. When you arrive on this floor, immediately are lots of beautiful seashells and rocks. It is magnificently presented. I can look at each conch shell and fall in love. And that's not even the best part. You turn right and enter the main room of prehistoric animals. OMG this is a breath-taking, beautiful view of the museum!! Then, the back (near the windows) are lots of information about animals we actually know. Around the walls are actual scientists working! The third floor contains many, many display windows of history from around the world. The history for each artifact is very brief, but still interesting. If you visit a lot of museums yourself, nothing is new here. Still it is a beautiful museum. It is also free! It is peaceful and empty during the weekdays. read more

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Musee Redpath is a small natural history museum on the McGill campus set up in the static, older museum style. in fact, it very much reminded me of a smaller version of the museum utilized in the show "Penny Dreadful" - fitting, due to the Victorian architecture and style of layout. it's free, though donations are suggested. there's probably nothing here that you wouldn't find at any other natural history museum with more exhaustive collections, but it is well-maintained and definitely a welcome respite on hot, humid days. pretty neat mix of stuff - fossils, minerals, cultural artifacts. worth it to check out for an hour or so. for what it is - a small museum based on the private collection at a college - it's fine, though I don't think I could warrant a repeat visit. read more

Découvert pendant la nuit blanche, ce musée "By night" m'a émerveillé! D'abord avec le concept d'une visite à la lampe de poche qui m'a donné l'impression d'être dans le film "Une nuit au musée", ensuite avec son architecture qui permet d'avoir une vue d'ensemble sur l'exposition principale, notamment la reconstitution d'un T-Rex en son centre, pour finir dans les sous-sols qui regorgent de trésors miniers, ce fut une expérience tout à fait géniale et unique. Un musée pas aussi connu que celui des Beaux Arts ou le MAC mais que je conseille vivement à tous les amateurs de préhistoire et d'authenticité! read more

So much to look at with information in French and English. Info is well written giving just a few key points to keep you intrigued. read more

Musée Redpath - As you enter the main room on the second floor, you are greeted by the Gorgosaurus. - Museums Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

Interesting, intimate museum. The Redpath Museum is a small three story museum on the McGill University campus. The buildong itself is safe, sturdy, and... Dated isn't the right word, but in need of some updating to help woth flow. It has an eclectic mix of geologic, biological, and human history/science. The museum itself is free, but a donation is nice. 20$ CAD for a family. The signage is minimum but sufficient. You can expect to spend about an hour here. I have a 10 and 7 year old and they both enjoyed the museum. It is a convenient stop before or after hiking/visiting Mount Royal. There are also plenty of places to eat lunch, dinner or snack around the campus. read more

What if I told you there is an Amazing museum packing so much cool stuff inside like fossils, a huge dinosaur skeleton , a real mummy and this is just the beginning you would want to go there right? now let me add that it is FREE and they sometimes hold cool events, lectures and exhibitions...did I blow your mind already ? This small museum is exactly the kind of places you want to run into when you are visiting a new city, a real gem. But if you live in Montreal this is the place to take a visitor after you ran out of all other ideas r you want to give him the extra treatment tour :) and dont forget to check out the outside fossil garden (in the summer in winter its covered). read more

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This is a fun museum to check out when downtown in the McGill area. It's free entry but you're encouraged to donate. the museum is not huge but it's not a bad way to spend a little time. They have a small dinosaur exhibit , and a few other exhibits as well. The building itself is quite nice inside and well laid out. read more

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This is an archaeologic museum inside McGill campus. The campus itself is pretty nice and lively so I trip to the museum is worth too. The best part is that it is free =) The collection is not extensive but they have a little bit of everything. The natural museum and shell collection were particularly interesting. read more

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Fossils, people! FOSSILS! Rare and extraordinarily preserved fossils. Redpath is located on the McGill University campus. Entry is free and the museum is small. The main focus is on rocks and fossils. The have minerals from Quebec, a mummy, fossils of dinosaurs, and strange animals. The "back to sea" exhibit has a great collection of fossils from the water and the "Dawson gallery" has a collection of strange animals that played connecting roles in evolution. The museum is small and doesn't take much to tour but, the collection is definitely worth visiting. Oh, and a bonus (if you go in the summer), is all the half-naked guys playing frisbee on the McGill university lawns. Bonus!! read more

If you're in Montreal this isc one tourist attraction you might like to visit. Located right at McGill university they have ones of exhibits from Dinosaurs to Mummies. I always enjoyed walking around here. As soon as you walk through the door you are greeted by a giant king crab in the front display counter and a large tortise hanging from the wall. Up the steps is a stuff gorilla among a variety of other jungle animals. They have an interesting bug exhibit and the animals of Canada exhibit is well done. But you will be awed by the dinosaurs and mummies. read more

What a treasure! This tiny museum has a wild collection of all sorts of fascinating specimens. It's free, and the main hall is lined with the offices of professors who's students come and go as you browse the exhibits. I got really excited about the artifacts from turn-of-the-century Congo, the ancient Egyptian collection (pottery & other artifacts including several mummies), the amazing minerals, fossils and dino bones. They've got great curiosities too: a giant Japanese spider crab, a shrunken head (with a fun 'is it fake' display), tiny shoes made for Chinese ladies with bound feet, a polar bear hide, and neat taxidermy, like a specimen of the only parrot native to N. America (now extinct). I spent about two hours in here pouring over every descriptive card, but a more casual visitor could cover the whole place in twenty minutes. read more

I had the Redpath Museum on my To Do list for Montreal because it was free and full of interesting dead things. I went with a friend who lives in Montreal and he was just as stoked as I was when we got there. Not only are there DINOSAUR BONES, there is a ton of taxidermy in fun wildlife settings (INCLUDING A PUFFIN). Go!! read more

It's free, and interesting, and therefore can't be better. We didn't expect much and accordingly were not disappointed. Good way to spend 1-2 hours, if you like minerals, shells, stuffed animals, fossils, etc. read more

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Smell oldy, impressive collection, take a walk inside to feel like a dust in the middle of univers and time ... its free. read more

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Yep, I mean, Yelp, this is one of those places. Indiana Jones? Jurassic Park? James Bond? No I'm kidding. This place is as good as it gets. It's a sleeper the kind you want to see but never had. To tell the truth you wont fall on your knees once inside, it is kind of smallish and not very much furnished but still it has more atmosphere than the Natural History Museum in London. Go see it, until people will remember the 21th century looking at some giant holographic screen in their planes taking them from London to New York in 45 minutes out of the Earth atmosphere thinking, yeah, that must have been some funny times bro. read more

A small museum with a little bit of everything! :) Mummies, shrunken heads, dinosaurs fossils, rocks, and hippo heads! I visited the McGIll campus during graduation season and was glad to find a quiet, air conditioned place to rest the mind and explore what the museum had in store. It took me about 45 mins to go through the whole museum and was amazed at how many different areas they covered. For a great place to visit...and for free, you should defiantly stop by. read more

Wonderful museum on the McGill campus with a very interesting collection of fossils, gems, specimens, mummies, etc. A great place to kill a few hours and experience something new! The downstairs is a bit drab but upstairs is open, airy and full of light. A definite must-see if you're nearby. read more

Fun museum to visit. Enjoyed their entire collection. They have a nice shell collection, rocks collection and much more housed in a beautiful old building. The only thing that wasn't pleasant was the bathroom (in the basement) as it smelled like formaldehyde that I think was reeking out of an adjacent storage room. read more

Not a bad way to spend 30 minutes, but it's an encyclopedic beige collection of natural history stuff straight from 1975. You can learn the context of some of the exhibits if you really try. While free, the suggested $10 donation seems like a stretch. read more

Admission by suggested donation. Located on McGill University campus. It's a natural history museum and cultural history museum. If you have kids, they'll like the fossils and prehistoric animals. Lots of shells and rocks too. Interesting history and artifacts on various cultures. read more

This is a very cute natural history museum on McGill University's campus. Admissions is FREE. It's also near the Peele Street entrance for the hike up Mount Royal. They have small collections of rocks, dinosaurs, the blowhole of a whale, and large historic turtles on the first two floors. There's also an activity center on the first floor for kids where my friend and I made our own fossils. Restrooms are in the basement. My favorite was probably the ancient civilization exhibits on the third floor that went around the walls. The center was open to allow natural lighting to hit the third and second floor. It's such a charming layout. read more

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Super interesting and eclectic museum. Free/donation so worth the price of admission and is on the McGill campus so that's a bonus. If you are interested in geology/rocks you'll be in heaven, but plenty of other things to appreciated and learn about for the rest of us. Student supported so that's a nice feature of this museum. read more

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This museum man, what a heart-breaker. I have loved this beautiful, graceful old building for almost a decade. The smell, the shape, the mummies and bones, not to mention the careful exquisite evolving curation of the collection through the space over the years. This tiny space is the oldest museum in Canada and it stands in this incredible Greek inspired stone mansion in the quad on McGill campus, looking something out of a dream about University Days: rolling green hills, nymphet fountain in a little dell, wrought iron fences, music students playing their instruments into the echo on the sidelawn. Inside there is an auditorium like something out of a medieval nunnery, and then the museum itself, with it's hand-painted images of natural environments, the balcony circling above, the ingenious wood balustrades and paneling. I'd love to fill this space with music and dance someday, but for now I will continue to admire this hope chest of a venue from afar. Go visit this museum. It's free, drop some money in the donation box, enjoy an hour in the lovely quiet, think about fossils and the passing of time. read more

Ah, the good 'old Redpath Museum. I spent numerous childhood field trips scouring the collections for the answers to the questions my teachers had prepared, scavenger hunt style. As an adult I love to duck into the museum for some quiet time, immersed amongst the rocks and dino bones and diorama. The building itself is stunning, full of architectural details you'd be hard pressed to find in any museum built in the last 30 or so years. And the best part is that admission is by donation, which always seems to bring out my generous side. read more

A great little old-fashioned museum. Interesting exhibits showing everything from samurai armor to dinosaur bones and fossils. Free admission is the icing on the cake. This would be a 5-star review, but the museum is unforunately very small. It would be hard to spend more than 45 minutes to an hour here, even if you're very interested in the subject matter (which I am!). Still, a fun place to kill a little time, that I visit easily once a month or more. Very fond of this museum. read more

This is a great little hidden gem that we decided to visit on a rainy Montreal summer day. It is tucked away in a historic building in the middle of the McGill Campus and best of all its free. It is a beautiful place just to take a wander around looking at all the fossils and stuffed animals that have been in this building for many years. A great atmosphere and a quiet little spot to spend an hr. read more

We had a really fun brief stop here on our way from coming down Mont Royal and into downtown during a midweek November visit. A bit tricky to find as a pedestrian, but a very cool building and that 2nd floor rotunda is worth the trip itself. Some of the exhibits are definitely a bit dated/tattered at this point, but there are some that are really striking as well. it does underline how this area of museum tending/exhibit creation is a diminished art these days, and seems like a renovation of this space would create a really cool opportunity for the school itself, in that you could develop a minor around the topic, bring in rotating experts for ~6 week residencies and build a cool program while giving this the facelift it deserves. The articulated skeletons are particularly neat. There is also a wee gift shop downstairs, and the friendly gal actually offered to send my postcard to the USA for me - cool. Hours are a little tough to fit into a Montreal tour, but if you are nearby, interested and it is open - its definitely worth a stop. read more

Small on the outside, but we ended up spending several hours here. Well worth the $5 suggested donation.