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Montreal is celebrated for its famed attractions, but just outside the city are some pretty peculiar and fascinating museums. From stargazing to submerged stories, you can uncover unexpected treasures that might surprise even the most seasoned Montrealers. If you're in the mood for something different, these nearby cultural gems are worth the detour:

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Autumn in Montreal is a love story waiting to happen. The dropping temperatures are a perfect excuse to draw closer to a loved one, and the city, with its canvas of fall colours, provides the perfect backdrop for heart-fluttering encounters. It's all about finding cozy indoor corners to cuddle and taking full advantage of the outdoors before the frost sets in. While the trees transition to shades of amber and gold, parks take on a new life, and the city's hideaways become the go-to spots for those in the know.

The Montreal Botanical Garden transforms into a luminous spectacle, drawing couples to its glow. Jarry Park, with its discreet enclaves, becomes a prime spot for quiet lakeside conversations and picnics shielded by cattails. And if you're looking for an unparalleled view, the St. Lawrence River beckons from the deck of Montreal's only floating terrasse.

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Beyond the celebrated Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the sprawling Biodome, there's a world less explored. A museum dedicated entirely to musical artifacts, a niche sanctuary chronicling Montreal's banking history, and a haven of optical illusions.

You can bypass the crowds at the Old Port and sidestep the downtown buzz, and, instead, venture into the heart of Montreal where unassuming museums stand as sentinels to tales untold, artifacts unsung, and art pieces that remain delightfully undiscovered.

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Montreal is getting a new aquarium — and relatively soon. Developers plan to open its doors to the public next year.

Unlike the Montreal Insectarium and Montreal Biodôme, the Aquarium de Montréal will be privately owned and operated.

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We're gonna get lucky. For the first weekend of November, Montrealers might be blessed with unusually warm weather as temps are expected to rise above the 20-degree Celsius mark.

In view of the icy cold season ahead of us, let's welcome the new month with open arms and get off the couch because we all know this summer weather throwback won't last long.

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The Pointe-à-Callière Museum's 18th-century public market is coming back to Old Montreal between August 27 and 28. The event revives the gathering space that once stood in what's now the Place Royale and Place D'Youville.

Re-enactors will pose as early settlers representing a cross-section of colonial society; Pointe-à-Callière says there will be noblemen, peasants, sailors, villagers and soldiers marching through the grounds and conducting firing drills.

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Montreal's McCord Museum is offering free admission today, June 21, in honour of National Indigenous People's Day. Montrealers can enjoy free access to the museum's many exhibitions, including "Indigenous Voices of Today: Knowledge, Trauma, Resilience".

"As part of National Indigenous History Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day, the Museum is presenting a series of activities to celebrate the creativity and traditions of Indigenous peoples!" McCord Museum tweeted out.

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Downtown Montreal is getting a new public exhibition dedicated to the French language, paid for by the Government of Quebec.

Simon Jolin-Barrette, newly minted Minister of the French Language, announced a $950,000 grant for Montreal's museum of archaeology, Pointe-à-Callière, to develop the exhibition, which will be on display in the Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme at Place des Arts.

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After nearly two years without a permanent home, the Museum of Jewish Montreal (MJM) is setting down roots in the Mile End. The space that archives the history and exhibits the work of the local Jewish community will soon occupy a 10,000-square-foot building in the heart of the neighbourhood. Near the corner of boulevard St-Laurent and avenue Fairmount Ouest, the museum is set to launch a public art project in July.

"After two years of building community online, it’s time to give a physical home to the growing numbers of people looking for new cultural and creative connections to Jewish life in Montreal," said MJM Executive Director Zev Moses in a statement.

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After years of construction, the Montreal Insectarium is set to reopen in a spacious new building on April 13, 2022. The Espace pour la vie museum features a butterfly garden where visitors can walk among the fluttering bugs and, below, a sprawling labyrinth that resembles the tunnel networks of burrowing insects.

Designed by Berlin-based architectural firm Kuehn Malvezzi, the 13,154-square-metre space stages what Espace pour la vie in a press release calls a "precisely choreographed route" that "dissolves the divides between the human and the natural with barrier-free displays and immersive sensory experiences."

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The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MBAM) is throwing five "monochrome parties" to celebrate its exhibition Nicolas Party: L'heure mauve. Attendees are encouraged to dress in colours inspired by what the museum in a press release calls the "the chromatic and phantasmagorical world" of the artist.

Each of the events between March and September will have a different colour assignment. The colour of the first party, on March 23, is green. Red follows on April 20, then blue on May 18, pink on June 8 and light green on September 21.

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It's officially March and you know what that means: the beginning of spring 2022 is in the near future! And what better way to celebrate the ending of one season and the coming of another than by embracing all that our city has to offer?

There are tons of free things to do in Montreal this March, all you gotta do is look for them!

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