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Barbara A. Tyler Award in Museum Leadership

The Barbara A. Tyler Award in Museum Leadership recognizes excellence in museum management and leadership within the Canadian museum community.

Serge Guay

Serge Guay, like many, came to museums from a place of education and interpretation. With his education and formative training in physical geography and education, Mr. Guay understands implicitly the value of physical experience in learning. Ever creative, he began his work in museums as a designer but was able to build much more.

Mr. Guay has had many notable achievements, celebrated exhibitions including the creation an award-winning multimedia presentation on the Empress of Ireland (2013) and the immersive experience of Onondaga (2009), Canada’s first publicly accessible submarine. However, what is most notable is his creativity, a willingness to try new things and to embrace the audience as an active partner.

He has also demonstrated a capacity for the business of museums, playing a foundational and instrumental role for the Pointe-au-Père Maritime Historic Site (formerly Musée de la mer) developing and strengthening a mutually beneficial relationship with

Parks Canada and introducing key services and amenities to Pointe-au-Père that would ensure its longevity and a place on the tourism map with 85,000 annual visitors to this museum and this remote area of Quebec.

He has demonstrated through action the importance of Maritime history and of the ability of his region, Bas St-Laurent, to contribute to the national cultural landscape. As he approaches retirement, it is to the benefit of Canadian museology that he receives this year’s prize and determine a protégé who will carry on his energetic legacy of creativity and growth in the Bas St-Laurent region.

“Sabrina Gendron has been General Manager of the Société rimouskoise du patrimoine, Manager of the Site historique de la maison Lamontagne and of Circuits Rimouski since 2018. She holds a combined Bachelor’s degree in historical science and heritage studies from the Université Laval with a concentration in museology and holds a Certificate in administration from the Université du Québec à Rimouski. Passionate about culture, she has also worked at the Musée régional de Rimouski and the Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père.”