Horaire durant les travaux: La Maison demeure ouverte avec un horaire modifié et la programmation est maintenue. Consulter l’horaire.
Horaire durant les travaux: La Maison demeure ouverte avec un horaire modifié et la programmation est maintenue. Consulter l’horaire.
Tuesday to Friday: 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday: closed
The Maison de la littérature is open outside of business hours during shows and special events.
Discover the history of the Maison de la littérature and its role in the preservation and dissemination of literary heritage. Let us guide you through the years and the fascinating anecdotes that have shaped this exceptional place. You can book a guided tour for groups of minimum 10 people, contact info@maisondelalitterature.qc.ca. Reservations required, 8$ per person.
The building is fully equipped for people with reduced mobility. The main halls are wheelchair-accessible via the entrance at 39, rue Sainte-Angèle, where there are also two parking spaces for people with reduced mobility who have a parking sticker. For people using the STAC (Paratransit) service, we recommend that you request the smaller buses, as larger vehicles have difficulty entering the Maison’s parking lot at 39 rue Ste-Angèle. The building has an elevator and a manual wheelchair available for loan on request for the duration of your visit. La Maison’s auditorium has removable seats to accommodate wheelchairs. We recommend that you reserve these seats by contacting reception.
The Maison de la littérature is proud to accept the Carte accompagnement loisir (CAL), which grants free admission to the companion of a disabled person at performances.
The Maison has a number of headsets for the hearing impaired, available free of charge at the reception desk. You can also use your own by dialing frequency 72.
Note: during the summer season, rue Saint-Jean is pedestrianized between rue D’Auteuil and côte du Palais. You can reach rue Sainte-Angèle by taking rue McMahon. For more information, consult the pedestrian street schedule.
Show tickets can be purchased online, by phone or on site (cash, debit or credit card). If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact the front desk at info@maisondelalitterature.qc.ca or (418) 641-6797 ext. 3.
Many of the Réseau de transport de la Capitale (RTC) routes serve the Maison de la littérature, including frequent Métrobus lines 800, 801 and 807. Find your route.
A bike rack is available near the entrance located at 39 Sainte-Angèle St. Several àVélo stations are also easily accessible from the Maison de la littérature.
This service is available from may to october.
The Maison de la littérature is a gathering space for readers, writers, artists, audiences, and cultural organizations—an accessible, inspiring oasis in the heart of Old Québec City for discovering, creating, and sharing literature in every shape and form.
As part of the Bibliothèque de Québec municipal library system, the Maison de la littérature offers richly varied year-round programming of exhibitions, workshops, encounters, readings, and performances. Every fall the Maison fills with life as host of the Québec en toutes lettres festival. Nearly 100,000 people visit the Maison de la littérature each year. With 25,000 works, the collection holds classics alongside recent publications and award-winning works with a consistent focus on Québec, as well as special collections like the fantasy, speculative, and science fiction collection.
On the premises, users find writing rooms, meeting rooms, a quiet zone, and reading areas for every taste. And as part of its artistic creation and dissemination mandate, the Maison has a performance stage, an exhibition space, a café, a writer’s residency apartment, creation and recording studios, and La shop à bulles, a studio for comics artists.
The Maison de la littérature is housed in the former Wesley Methodist Church, which when it was completed in 1848 was the city’s first in the neo-Gothic style. Abandoned in 1931, it was purchased ten years later by Senator Lorne Webster and donated to the Ville de Québec. The city then entrusted it to the Institut canadien de Québec (ICQ), which set up its offices and a public library on the first floor, along with an auditorium in the nave, La Salle de L’Institut, which became a renowned cultural venue. Wesley Church was the first religious building in Québec City to be converted with a program that respected its architectural qualities.
In 2015, after a four-year renovation, the transformed building reopened to the public as the Maison de la littérature. The architectural concept by Chevalier Morales included a boldly re-envisioned interior augmented with the addition of a bright, modern building. From its inception, the Maison de la littérature has been a partnership between the Ville de Québec and the Institut canadien de Québec, which administers its services.
Deux fois par mois, on étanche votre soif de culture et d’arts littéraires.
40, rue Saint-Stanislas,
Québec (Québec) G1R 4H1
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Horaire régulier
La Maison de la littérature est ouverte en dehors des heures d’ouverture régulières lors des spectacles et activités.
La Maison de la littérature est administrée par L’ICQ (l’Institut canadien de Québec) qui produit aussi le festival Québec en toutes lettres et gère Première ovation – arts littéraires ainsi que la désignation Québec, ville de littérature UNESCO. Sa bibliothèque fait partie du réseau de la Bibliothèque de Québec, un service municipal dont la gestion est confiée à L’ICQ.
© L’ICQ (l’Institut canadien de Québec)
Horaire durant les travaux: La Maison demeure ouverte avec un horaire modifié et la programmation est maintenue. Consulter l’horaire.
Horaire durant les travaux: La Maison demeure ouverte avec un horaire modifié et la programmation est maintenue. Consulter l’horaire.
Horaire durant les travaux: La Maison demeure ouverte avec un horaire modifié et la programmation est maintenue. Consulter l’horaire.
