Cité Mémoire

Montréal en Histoires

About this app

Roam the streets of Montreal with this application to immerse yourself in the city’s history, with over 60 unique items to discover (points of interest and augmented reality segments).

At night, enjoy Cité Mémoire’s twenty different projected tableaux created by Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon in collaboration with Michel Marc Bouchard.

Cité Mémoire is a poetic creation inspired by the history of Montreal. It will lead you to fascinating encounters with both unknown and famous personalities who bring to life the richness and complexity of Montreal through time.

Before your visit, download this application and its content (in whole, or one circuit at a time).

• Have your headphones handy and a fully-charged device (mobile phone or tablet) for the best experience
• Techno-historic tours for daytime or nighttime, depending on your availability
• Soundtrack for Cité Mémoire installations and historical content associated with each one
• Free Wi-Fi zone
• Choice of four languages (installed in the language of your device): French, English, Spanish, and Mandarin
• Detailed, geolocalized map
• Signage in the city to help you get your bearings

Ratings and reviews

This was amazing! We walked around for three hours one night going from yellow house to yellow house! Make sure to use the free Montreal wifi, download ALL the houses first and set your language to English. (Bringing an extra battery helps too.) Then you can freestyle your way through the map, pressing play on your phone and seeing parking lots, old buildings, etc. come to life with historical moments from Montreal. In one night we managed to see all but three of the yellow house videos, but still tonnes of blue dots to see! Wish we had this in other cities too.

I really enjoyed the walkthrough of Old Montreal at night. It was a shame that quite a few of the stations were not working though. I would suggest that the map be improved, it doesn't shift when you change direction and makes it difficult navigating the streets if you are unfamiliar with the area.

I was unable to use the map. Standing in front of one of the historical buildings I looked for a list so that I could access information about it. There does not seem to be such a list. Clearly the app works if you follow one of the walking tours but not if you are just walking around and landing at one place or another.

What’s new

New interactive maps for Charlevoix