Back معرض كندا الوطني Arabic معرض كندا الوطنى ARZ Kanada Milli Qalereyası Azerbaijani Galeria Nacional del Canadà Catalan Kanadská národní galerie Czech National Gallery of Canada German Εθνική Πινακοθήκη του Καναδά Greek Nacia Galerio de Kanado Esperanto Galería Nacional de Canadá Spanish گالری ملی کانادا Persian

National Gallery of Canada

National Gallery of Canada
An image of the logo of the National Gallery of Canada, with the art gallery's name in both English and French.
National Gallery of Canada
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Established1880 (1880)
Location
Coordinates45°25′46″N 75°41′54″W / 45.42944°N 75.69833°W / 45.42944; -75.69833
TypeArt museum
Collection size93,625[1]
Visitors385,576 (FY2017–18)[2]
DirectorJean-François Bélisle[3]
ArchitectMoshe Safdie (1983)[4][5][6]
Public transit access Rideau[7]
 9  Rideau/Hurdman
Websitewww.gallery.ca

The National Gallery of Canada (French: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum.[8] The museum's building takes up 46,621 square metres (501,820 sq ft), with 12,400 square metres (133,000 sq ft) of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the largest art museums in North America by exhibition space.

The institution was established in 1880 at the Second Supreme Court of Canada building, and moved to the Victoria Memorial Museum building in 1911. In 1913, the Government of Canada passed the National Gallery Act, formally outlining the institution's mandate as a national art museum. The Gallery was moved to the Lorne Building in 1960.

In 1988, the Gallery was relocated to a new building designed for this purpose. The National Gallery of Canada is situated in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive, with a notable view of Canada's Parliament Buildings on Parliament Hill. The building was designed by Israeli architect Moshe Safdie and opened in 1988.[4][5][6][9]

The Gallery's permanent collection includes more than 93,000 works by European, American, Asian, Canadian, and Indigenous artists. In addition to exhibiting works from its permanent collection, the Gallery also organizes and hosts a number of travelling exhibitions.

  1. ^ "Search the Collection". Gallery.ca. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Corporate Performance" (PDF). National Gallery of Canada Annual Report 2017–2018. National Gallery of Canada. p. 47.
  3. ^ "About the Director".
  4. ^ a b "National Gallery of Canada". SkyscraperPage.
  5. ^ a b "Emporis building ID 204225". Emporis. Archived from the original on May 30, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ a b National Gallery of Canada at Structurae
  7. ^ "O-Train Confederation Line: Rideau". LigneConfederationLine.ca. City of Ottawa. 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  8. ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia Archived 2009-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ National Gallery of Canada – 1980 Archived 2010-09-19 at the Wayback Machine

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