The MAC Is Rebuilding With a Different Idea of What It Should Be

In 2028, barring any unforeseen delays, Montreal’s Museum of Contemporary Art (the MAC) will reinhabit its place on Sainte-Catherine Street, doubling its exhibition space. Boasting a glass facade that will, at that point, be the product of a decade-long rebuild, the museum will follow a suite of peers that also reside in glass buildings, or at least incorporate the material into their structures: Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, which is undergoing a similar renovation of transparent, geometrical nature; Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art; and Manhattan’s Whitney Museum.

Different from these institutions, or perhaps just more explicit, though, is the MAC’s rationale for such a rebuild.

While Montreal firms Saucier + Perrotte and GLCRM are in charge of the museum’s new physical design, Stéphan La Roche, Director of the MAC since 2024, is transforming the MAC’s operational architecture. In both its aesthetic and operational ethos, the new MAC is a meditation on transparency in all definitions of the word.

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