Provincial Museum Located: Museums and Libraries.-The Museum of the Province of Quebec, containing the provincial archives, as well as natural history and arts sections, is located in Battlefield Park (the Plains of Abraham) in Quebec City. Nearby, in the Quebec City Citadel, there is a military museum maintained by the federal government. There are military and historical museums at Fort Chambly, at Chambly, and at Fort Lennox, on the lie aux Noix, while numerous museums, including the Chateau de Ramezay historical museum and the McGill University museum, are in Montreal. Quebec has many notable college and university libraries, including the great collections of Laval, McGill, and Montreal universities, as well as numerous special libraries.
3. Fly from Belgrade to Titograd (75 minutes), lunch in the excellent Hotel Crna Gora (meaning Montenegro) and, since there's nothing to see in this war-ruined, now resurrected town, hire a car and driver through the hotel or, more safely, by advance arrangement with Putnik in Belgrade, for the long and rocky ride to Cetinjc, the sleepy former capital of the Principality of Montenegro. It will be a bit costly but will save a lot of time and bus bumps. Linger an hour or so in Cetinje to see the St. Peter Monastery; the former Palace of Prince Nicholas, now a provincial museum; and the Mansion of the Montenegrin nobleman-poet, Petar Petrovic Njegos, now an interesting ethnographical museum.
Nearby in the walled area are some of the city's oldest institutions, such as the Petit Semi-naire, established in 1663 by Francois Xavier de Laval-Montmorency, first bishop of Quebec; the Ursulines' Monastery and Convent, the Hotel Dieu Hospital, and part of Laval University. Other interesting buildings include the City Hall, Roman Catholic Basilica, and Anglican Cathedral. Outside the walled city are the Parliament building and the Provincial Museum located on the Plains of Abraham, scene of the famous battle of 1759 (see section on History). In rapidly growing Sainte Foy is the new Cite Universitaire of Laval University, with its faculties of commerce, surveying and forestry, medicine, sciences, and theology. Farther west, near the Quebec Bridge which spans the St. Lawrence, is the Aquarium.
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