See different areas of campus by joining guided tours.

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Campus Tour

Explore. Discover. Belong.
Step beyond the brochure and experience campus life firsthand on a guided tour led by our knowledgeable McGill Ambassadors. Explore some of our classrooms, student spaces, and campus highlights, connect with our community, and discover what makes McGill unique. Get insider perspectives, ask questions, and see where you'll learn, grow, and create unforgettable memories as you imagine your future here.

Departs from the Welcome Center every 30 minutes. 

Activity TIME Location
Downtown Campus Tour 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Information and Departure from the red tent located outside the Welcome Centre (3415 McTavish st.).

Classrooms and Labs

Imagine Yourself Here.
Walk through the spaces where students collaborate, create, experiment, and succeed. Our classroom and lab tour offers a firsthand look at the learning experience waiting for you.

Faculty or School Time Location
Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences: Dental clinic 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Depart from 2001 McGill College Ave., Lobby
Education: Kinesiology & Physical Education 1:00 PM
2:00 PM
Depart from the Education Building, Lobby
Education: Building Tour 1:00 PM Depart from the Education Building, Lobby
Engineering Complex and buildings tour 10:00 AM - 3:15 PM (Ongoing) Depart from Lorne Trottier Building, Tour table in the downstairs lobby
Law

10:30 AM
12:30 PM
2:30 PM

Depart from New Chancellor Day Hall, Atrium

Music Facilities Tour

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM (Tours depart every hour)

Depart from Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, Lobby

Nursing: Satoko Shibata Clinical Nursing Laboratories 10:30 AM
12:30 PM
2:00 PM
Depart from 680 Sherbrooke St. West, 20th floor, Reception Desk
Science
  • Department of Chemistry - Demonstrations and Lab Tours

10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Otto Maass Chemistry Building, Main Lobby
  • Department of Physics - Interactive physics demonstrations, including particle detection. Tours of research labs where students contribute to research. Students and researchers available to chat.
10:00 am - 3:30 pm Rutherford Physics Building, Main Lobby

Library Tours

Discover Your Academic Advantage.
Explore the library's study spaces, collections, technology, and support services. Join a tour or self discover and uncover the resources that will help you succeed throughout your academic journey.

* Please note that no official tours are planned for the Gelber Law Library and Marvin Duchow Music Library, but you are free to visit the libraries on your own.

Activity Time Location
Schulich Library for Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering

10:00 AM and

11:00 AM

Lobby of the Schulich Library, Lobby, also accessible through the Frank Dawson Adams Building
McLennan & Redpath Library Drop-in tours 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Lobby of the McLennan & Redpath Library, accessible through the McLennan Terrace

Gelber Law Library: Open to the public *

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Gelber Law Library
Marvin Duchow Music Library: Open to the public * 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Marvin Duchow Music Library

Residence Tours

Open the Door to Campus Living!
Join us for a residence tour and get an inside look at student life. Walk through our spaces, ask questions, and discover the community that could soon be your home away from home.

Residence Style Time Location
Traditional Dormitory Style 10:30 AM - 3:00 PM

McConnell Hall (Upper Residence)

Shuttle bus available at Milton Gates, every 30 minutes

Modern Dormitory Style 10:30 AM - 3:00 PM La Citadelle

Sports Complex Tours

McGill Athletics and Recreation takes pride in offering varsity sports and recreational programming to create positive experiences that result in healthy, active, connected community that thrives in a learning environment. On October 24, we are opening our doors to prospective students and their families for a tour of one of McGill's busiest and most iconic buildings, the McGill Sports Complex. Your thirty-minute guided walkthrough will include a visit to Love Competition Hall, the well-equipped B2 Gym, the Hall of Fame in Tomlinson Hall, the Memorial Pool and more.
 

Tours will take place every half hour from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. only.
Registration is required. Spaces are limited. 

Please note: Access to Molson Stadium will, unfortunately, not be possible due to Homecoming celebration weekend activities.

 

Activity Time Location
Sports Complex Tours

10:00 AM

Currie Gym, 475 Pine Avenue W. 
10:30 AM
11:00 AM
11:30 AM
12:00 PM
12:30 PM
1:00 PM
1:30 PM
2:00 PM 
 

 

McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

For more information about traditional territory and tips on how to make a land acknowledgement, visit our Land Acknowledgement webpage.

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