Centre d'histoire de Montréal will move to the Main under new name MEM

The Centre d’histoire de Montréal will be renamed The MEM and moved to new digs at the corner of Ste-Catherine St. and the Main by 2021, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced Monday.
The museum has outgrown the former firehall in Old Montreal out of which it has operated for the past 35 years, Plante said. It makes sense that a museum that is to be a “window into the Montreal identity” should be located at an iconic intersection in the heart of the Quartier des