Écomusée du fier monde

This guide to Écomusée du fier monde in Montreal opens at the Bain Généreux, a public bathhouse that served tens of thousands of bathers a year in a Montreal neighborhood where few homes had running water. It follows architect Joseph-Omer Marchand's Art Deco design, modeled on a Paris bathing palace, through decades of segregated hours and industrial soot before the pool finally stopped filling in 1992. Listen for how the drained basin still shapes the museum built around it.