The museum experience will demystify the history and functioning of hot air balloons.

Photo: Radio-Canada / Tifa Bourjouane

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In 2025, the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival (FMG) will offer a new “fun and interactive” museum experience about hot air balloons invented by the Montgolfier brothers nearly 250 years ago.

This innovative product is made possible thanks to the receipt, Monday, of a $1.12 million budget as part of the provincial government’s Tourism Industry Recovery Assistance Program.

The history of the hot air balloon, but also how it all works, is part of the museum experience that we developexplains the chairman of the board of directors of the FMGMarie-Chantal Giguère.

A crowd of people watch the lightening of a hot air balloon.

Other digital projects, such as the nighttime lighting proposed since last year, could be added to the FMG, thanks to funding from Quebec.

Photo: Dominic Charette

This amount will also be used to develop digital and visual projects, such as the multimedia night lighting set up last year. The structure in the shape of a hot air balloon about 10 meters high, which was illuminated with shows every evening and served as a canvas for the projection of a 3D animated film, will also return this year.

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