Transit options

25 years to celebrate … with YOU …and 7 free bus routes to 32 museums

With loop circuits, you stop at the museum of your choice and stay as long as you wish. No obligation to visit all the museums of the same circuit. Departures are approximately every 20 minutes on all the circuits between 9 am and 4:30 pm. Start your tour at the museum of you choice or at the promenade des Artistes (Place-des-arts metro)!

The bus routes

• 7 colour-coded and numbered looped bus routes
  1. Blue bus route
  2. Green bus route
  3. Yellow bus route
  4. Red bus route
  5. Purple bus route
  6. Lilac bus route
  7. Orange bus route
• Correspondence to the promenade du Quartier des spectacles
• Boarding at all stops (museums)
• Uninterrupted service from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
• 4:30: Last departure to the museums with passengers

Plenty of transportation options

Do you like organized trips? Our six bus routes providing free transportation from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. are just the thing for you. Or would you rather organize your own itinerary? Whether you're happiest on foot or bicycle, or you prefer to drive or take public transit, or you'd like to cross the St. Lawrence on a river shuttle, we've got what you need.

Photo: Philippe Casgrain

Two maritime links between the bus routes

• Lachine Canal : Locks 2 and 3 (red - lilac)
• Jacques-Cartier Pier (red) - Jean-Drapeau Park (purple)
  
  Towards the red bus route: from Longueuil (Réal-Bouvier Pier) > Old Port and Old Montreal (red bus route)

A river shuttle at a good price !

Croisières AML is providing a river shuttle service at a reduced rate: $ 3.00/person/way

1. Longueuil-Montréal (Réal-Bouvier Pier (Longueuil) - Montreal's Old Port) that joins the red bus route
2. Montréal-Île Sainte-Hélène (Jacques-Cartier Pier - Jean-Drapeau Park, parking P7) that joins the purple bus route.

To find out more about the departure times : www.navettesmaritimes.com and click on the top link (Montreal-Longueuil) or (Île Sainte-Hélène).

Free parking:

• CEGEP St-Laurent, 625 Sainte-Croix Ave (580 places) give acces to Musée des Maîtres et artisans du Québec and lilac route
• Jean-Drapeau Park, P7 (180 places) give acces to the purple route
• Centre d'exposition La-Prison-des-Patriotes (50 places)
• Stewart Hall Art Gallery (50 places)
• LHNC Commerce-de-la-fourrure-à-Lachine (25)
• Musée de Lachine - Pavillon de l'entrepôt du complexe culturel Guy-Descary (50 places)
• Musée de Lachine - Pavillon principal (25 places)
• Château Dufresne Museum (15 places)
• Port de plaisance Réal-Bouvier, Longueuil (200 places) toward red route

Paid parking:

• Biodôme (480 places)
• Centre d'histoire de Montréal (50 places)
• Montréal Sciences Centre (511 places)
• Cité historia (55 places)
• Grande bibliothèque (200 places)
• Redpath Museum (150 places)
• Planétarium (60 places)