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This is a report on a two-part study demonstrating that the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ participatory art-based activity, known as “Thursdays at the Museum,”  “improved the well-being, quality of life, and physical health (i.e., frailty) of older community dwellers.”

The first part of the study used a pre-post intervention and prospective and longitudinal experimental design. The second study was a randomized clinical trial (RCT), known as the Art-Health RCT (A-Health RCT), that compared changes in well-being, quality of life, frailty, and physiological measures in older community dwellers who participated in “Thursdays at the Museum” (intervention group) and in their counterparts who did not participate in this art-based activity (control group).The A-Health RCT study confirmed the benefits of a participatory art-based museum activity on the elderly population and showed the key role played by museums in public health promotion.

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