Montreal Insectarium
Live-insect museum where visitors wind through a glass-walled route built to feel like moving as a bug.
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This guide to the Montreal Insectarium follows Georges Brossard, a notary who walked away from his desk around age thirty-eight to spend four decades chasing insects across the world, net in hand. It traces how his private collection grew past a quarter million specimens, too large for any home, and the one condition he set when he offered it all to the city. Old footage shows him sprinting through a Venezuelan jungle after a butterfly, moths swirling around his head.
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