Canada's National Art Galleries

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Edmonton Art Gallery
An impressive collection of over 5000 works of art and it continues to grow! Our collection includes historical and contemporary paintings, sculptures, installation works and photographs by Canadian and international artists.

Glenbow Art Collection
The art collection contains some 28,000 works which date from the 19th century to the present. Historical, modern and contemporary works representative of this region and its place in western Canada. Outstanding collection of landscape painting, Canadian prints collection, First Nations and Inuit Art, American Illustration, Western and Wildlife Art.

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
One of Canada's finest art museums A a permanent collection of 15,000 objets d'art. The collection features art from Asia, Europe, and North America with emphasis placed on Canada and Japan.

Public Art Galleries of interior BC
Collection of works by local artists and Art & Crafts. To exhibit, interpret, preserve and promote the visual artistic heritage of the region, province and nation.

Vancouver Art Gallery
The largest art gallery in western Canada, presents national and international exhibitions of works by a range of artists, from groundbreaking contemporary visionaries to historical masters. The Gallery has more than 7,900 works in its collection.

Winnipeg Art Gallery
Established in 1912, is Western Canada’s oldest public art gallery, mandated to develop and maintain Manitoba’s visual arts heritage. As one of Canada’s leading galleries, it collects and exhibits works of art by Manitoba, Canadian, and international artists.

Art Gallery of South Western Manitoba
Extensive Allied Arts Council studio program. Emphasis in exhibit creation, in presenting shows of a contemporary nature and in the profiling of highly talented Manitoba visual a artists.

The Association Museums New Brunswick
Links to museums throughout New Brunswick dedicated to the enhancement of museum standards. It also represents institutions and individuals interested in the preservation and promotion of New Brunswick's cultural, natural, and artistic heritage.

The Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador
Is the major public gallery in the province, presenting and interpreting the visual arts in all their richness and diversity to people within the province and beyond. The gallery exhibits original visual art, does research, provides education about art.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery
The gallery has presented a variety of exhibitions since its inception, exhibitions which have featured the works of such Newfoundland-based artists as: Marlene Creates (photo-based installation); Pam Hall (sculptural installation); Christopher Pratt (print retrospective); David Morrish (photography); Marlene MacCallum (prints and drawings); and Percy Pieroway (painting in folk tradition).

The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
A resource for the discovery of Aboriginal and European history in the North and for exploration of Northern flora and fauna. Video and sound are incorporated into a variety of areas including the Natural History and Aviation Galleries for displays.

The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
The major public institution in the Province of Nova Scotia for the collection, classification, preservation and exhibition of the visual arts. Historic and contemporary, paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, decorative arts, video, as well as other significant materials.

Artwork from Nunavut
The stories the art pieces tell are the life stories of the artists who have created them. Experienced hunters, skilled seamstresses, elders who have witnessed more social change than most people can fathom. By creating art, Nunavut artists document their connection to the land, their culture's legends, and their own flights of imagination.

National Gallery of Canada
A visual arts museum of international stature, holds its collections of art in trust for all Canadians. To develop, maintain and make known, throughout Canada and internationally. A national collection of works of art, historic and contemporary, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada.

The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
Located in Owen Sound, Ontario. Established to celebrate the artistic legacy of Tom Thomson, who grew up in the Owen Sound area. The Gallery houses the world's third largest collection of his work and is the only gallery designed as a memorial to Tom Thompson.

Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Established in 1964 as a national arts institution with a mandate to inspire appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of Canada’s diverse historical experience and expression of identities through the collection, conservation, presentation, interpretation and dissemination of the work of Canadian visual artists.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Canadian and international artists past and present . Over the past 142 years, has built up a collection of over 30,000 objects - painting, sculpture, works on paper, prints and drawings, photographs and decorative art objects - from Antiquity to today. Collection of Ancient Cultures, European Art, Canadian Art, Inuit and Amerindian Art, Contemporary Art and Decorative Arts.

MacKenzie Art Gallery
A wide range art from Saskatchewan, a representative sampling from Western Canada, as well as selected national and international works. Chronicled 5,000 artists from all over the world, extensive research on Saskatchewan art. Permanent collection includes hundreds of works by local artists, historical and contemporary.

Mendel Art Gallery
Historical and contemporary Saskatchewan Canadian art, and international artists.

The Yukon Arts Centre
A non-profit organization whose primary function is to present and develop the arts in the Yukon. Art and education are the two key values guiding the work of the Yukon Arts Centre.