As COVID-19 restrictions ease up, Mccord Museum reopens its doors for the community to enjoy! To ensure a safe, enjoyable and easy onsite experience and in compliance with sanitary directives, ticket reservation is mandatory. You will find detailed below all the information you need to plan your visit and discover their current programming, including the Christian Dior exhibition.
MUST-SEE AT THE MUSEUM
CHRISTIAN DIOR BACK ON VIEW
Discover the exhibition, Christian Dior, and explore the brilliance behind Dior’s dramatic creations that revived the entire Parisian haute couture industry in the fifties with the revolutionary “New Look.”
You can now purchase tickets through Mccord Museum's virtual Admission Desk to visit the Museum at the time of your choice.
$8.50 PER CONNEXION • FREE FOR MUSEUM MEMBERS → February 7: Christian Dior → February 14: Chapleau, Profession: Cartoonist → February 21: Wearing Our Identity – The First Peoples Collection
CHRISTIAN DIOR
This major exhibition on Christian Dior explores the brilliance behind Dior’s dramatic creations that revived the entire Parisian haute couture industry after the devastation of the Second World War. In 1947, the opening of the new couture house and the revolutionary “New Look” swept away the wartime masculine silhouette, making Christian Dior’s postwar fashions desired, worn and copied by women around the world.
Drawn from the Royal Ontario Museum’s extensive collection of Christian Dior couture, complemented by a dozen garments from the McCord Museum’s Dress, Fashion and Textiles collection as well as loans from Dior Héritage, Paris, the exhibition focuses on the period from 1947 to 1957 and offers a captivating insight into the creative process and the mechanics of the Parisian haute couture industry during the 1950s. It examines Dior’s iconic lines, luxury textiles and romantic embroideries that laid the foundation for the fashion house’s global success. Featuring breathtaking fashions from daytime to evening wear for grand occasions, the exhibition invites visitors to discover the exquisite craftsmanship, intricate detail and inspired luxury designs by this key figure from the Golden Age of haute couture.
Live virtual opening of the exhibition on September 23, 2020 hosted by Rebecca Makonnen. With Cynthia Cooper, Head, Collections and Research; Curator, Dress, Fashion and Textiles, McCord Museum, Alexandra Palmer, Senior Curator, Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Curatorship, Royal Ontario Museum, and Pascale Grignon, Director, Marketing, Communications and Visitor Experience, McCord Museum.
WEARING OUR IDENTITY – THE FIRST PEOPLES COLLECTION Ongoing Permanent exhibition
GRIFFINTOWN – EVOLVING MONTREAL On View Photography Exhibition
CHAPLEAU, PROFESSION: CARTOONIST On view Temporary exhibition
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT IT « A breath of fresh air and beauty that we adore! »Nabi-Alexandre Chartier, ICI Radio-Canada TV « It’s an epoch done full justice at the McCord Museum in Christian Dior »Ian McGillis, Montreal Gazette
