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Description of Just For Laughs Museum
In 1993, with the success of the Just For Laughs Festival, Gilbert Rozon created a place to recognize laughter and humour as cultural phenomena - the Just For Laughs Museum (JFLM). The Museum's history is marked by many challenging happenings - some sidesplitting, some discouraging, but none boring! Nonetheless, the Museum lives on!
The Just For Laughs Museum is a venue for thematic exhibitions, a multi-functional space for the presentation of public, private or professional events, and a media documentation centre for the promotion, research and distribution of information about laugher, humour and fantasy. It celebrates these aspects of the human condition using a fun approach that appeals to a diverse audience, including children and young people.
The Museum has created, presented or collaborated in many different exhibitions since its opening:
Histoire drôle, an exhibition on the history of humour since Prehistory (1993-1994).
Extravaganza, an exhibition to honour international cinematic comedies: black humour, cynicism and B-movies (1995).
Dialogue dans le noir, a moving exhibition through a course where visitors relied on their senses and a white cane, and were led by a visually impaired guide (1995-1996).
Yugo Next, an exhibition of the works of students from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan: twenty-four sculptures created from Yugoslavian Yugo cars (1996).
Je vous entends chanter, an exhibition on Québec songs of the past 100 years created by the Musée de la civilisation (1997).
Collaborated in Fou rire, an exhibition celebrating fifty years of humour in Québec, presented at the Musée de la civilisation in Québec City (1999-2001).
Les Amuseurs, an exhibition for children on the Commedia dell'Arte (1999-2001).
Hommage au Théâtre des Variétés, an exhibition of photographs from Mr. Gilles Latulippe's personal collection (2001).
Rétrospective 1986-2001: Éric Godin, an exhibition of the works of caricaturist Éric Godin (2001).
Abracadabra!, an exhibition for children on magic (2002-2004).
Les immortels de l'humour, an exhibition on the world's greatest comics (2002).
Ronnie Wood,, an exhibition of the work of legendary Rolling Stones guitarist, Ronnie Wood (2003).
The International Humour Hall Of Fame, a modified version of Les immortels de l'humour (since 2003).
Since 2001, the Museum has also presented several children's shows such as La très Belle Histoire de Noël with Claude Lafortune (2001, 2002, 2003), which was awarded the Masque des enfants terribles 2002 from the Académie du théâtre québécois.
The Just For Laughs Museum is a member of several associations, including the Board of Montreal Museum Directors (BMMD), the Société des musées québécois (SMQ), the Association of Children's Museums (ACM) and the Canadian Museum Association.
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