Musée Imaginarium

Musée Imaginarium in Montreal offers a unique 60-minute immersive experience through 16 creative universes, from a tropical forest to a poutine pool. Visitors become both photographer and subject, creating original photos and videos in settings that blend pop art, maximalism, and contemporary art. Located in the heart of the Griffintown district, the museum also features a shop with unique products created by local Montreal artists and the artists behind the immersive universes. It’s a must-visit for families, visitors, and creators seeking inspiration and artistic content to share.

Planning your visit

Musée Imaginarium in Montreal's Griffintown is built for making images rather than looking at them. Sixteen constructed environments — a tropical forest, a ball pit rendered as a pool of poutine, maximalist pop-art rooms — are staged so that visitors become both photographer and subject, moving through in about sixty minutes and leaving with the photographs and video the experience exists to produce. The aesthetic borrows from pop art and contemporary maximalism, saturated and deliberately artificial.

This is an experience venue rather than a collection, and it is honest about that. The value depends entirely on engaging with it: visitors who arrive intending to observe tend to leave unimpressed, while groups willing to play get exactly what they came for. It works particularly well with families, friends and anyone producing social content.

The shop stocks work by Montreal artists, including the people who built the installations, which gives it more local grounding than similar venues elsewhere.

Bookable options include entry tickets, and combination formats pairing the visit with iris photography — a separate service producing high-magnification portraits of the eye, offered on site. Timed entry manages numbers, and weekday slots are calmer than weekends when the popular rooms queue. Current availability is shown below.