Exhibitions and Activities

Permanent exhibitions are on display
on all three floors.


 

First Floor:
The Good Shepherd Sisters, a Labour of Love

  • The social and historical context of 19th century Quebec.
  • Marie-Josephte Fitzbach (1806-1885), Foundress of the community, and George Manly Muir, the man who founded Quebec's first shelter for women in difficulty, in 1850.
  • The Asile Sainte-Madeleine (St. Magdalen's Refuge), the predecessor of the Good Shepherd Congregation of Quebec.

Second Floor: NEW EXHIBITION
The Good Shepherd Way

 With a grant from the Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine du Québec, this floor has been given a new look. The exhibition, inaugurated in October 2008, offers new content, a fresh design, and recent technology.

Devoted to the various apostolates of the Good Shepherd Sisters of Quebec, the exhibition presents two charitable organizations that left a profound mark in Quebec: the Crèche Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, a foundling home for children born out of wedlock and awaiting adoption (1901-1972), and the Hôpital de la Miséricorde de Québec (a mercy hospital, 1874-1972) for single mothers.

Indepth research of the collection, archives and Community's houses has yielded photographs and items the public has never seen before. Of note are the baptismal font used for children at the Crèche between 1953 and 1972, and photographs of graduates of the École de puériculture (child care nursing school).

  • Former Children of the Crèche will find that the Museum takes an enlightening, compassionate look at their early years.
  • There's a new friendly, multifunctional area where visitors can view permanent records on the community's history, its involvement in
    the world and its aquired knowledge.
  • Interviews with former staff members of the Hôpital de la Miséricorde and the Crèche Saint-Vincent-de-Paul confirm the professional care given, while an indepth review of university theses on these institutions and the community's other ministries provide a well-documented portrait of Quebec's society at that time.

Since the sale of the Résidence Mgr-LeMay (formerly the Hôpital de la Miséricorde, Crèche Saint-Vincent-de-Paul and École de puériculture), the Good Shepherd Museum is now the only place of memory in Eastern Quebec that recalls the difficult reality of single mothers and their children in previous years.

The exhibition also presents: 

  • Work with incarcerated women.
  • Educational work.
  • Meeting other cultures: the involvement in developing countries, in the past and now.

Third Floor:
The Good Shepherd Sisters of Quebec, a continuing labour of love


  
  • Convent Life
  • The Collection
    Liturgical Silverware
    Furniture
    Porcelain
    Statues
    Paintings by master painters
  • The Chapel