Colisée de Québec: a group will propose a museum of transport and innovation

A group that promotes heritage will propose creating a museum of transportation and innovation in the old Colisée de Québec in order to preserve the building.

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The Group of Initiatives and Applied Research in the Environment (GIRAM) will present its proposal for the preservation of the building, built in 1949, at a press conference on Wednesday. GIRAM would like to see the birth of a national museum of transport and innovation. and technology.

An architect and two representatives of entrepreneurial families, namely Prévost and Fecteau, “having marked the history of transport in Quebec (coaches and bush aviation)” will be present to support the proposal, underlines the press invitation.

This type of museum is found “in many capitals of the world”, it is argued, and it would be “a project for the next decade”.

Heritage building

On the telephone, the president of GIRAM, Pierre-Paul Sénéchal, gives few details on the elements which will be provided on Wednesday in support of the group’s proposal, but he emphasizes that the Colisée is clearly a “heritage” building and above all that the population is “in favor of its conservation”.

Mr. Sénéchal also maintains that the time given to the Quebec City Planning and Conservation Commission to analyze the file is “very short”. In fact, the executive committee mandated the CUCQ to study two scenarios on the future of the building: its partial demolition or its complete demolition. The Commission has until December 20 to decide.

Proposal tested

GIRAM wants to bring its two cents into the discussion around the arena which saw the glory years of Jean Béliveau with the Citadelles and the As. “We tested our proposal with experts in museology, and the reception is good,” assured Mr. Sénéchal.

He maintains that the Colosseum has “historical and emblematic value” for the population. He recalls that the activities of the Quebec exhibition, where technological innovations were highlighted, began in this sector in 1898. “It was hockey in Quebec, but it is also on a site which has a great significance for the capital of Quebec.”