Great Canadian Museums and Art Galleries Thread
Post some photos of your favourite museums and art galleries across the country.
Bonus debate: what are the best in Canada, and what cities have the most impressive overall collection of museums, galleries and cultural infrastructure in general? |
Well, to continue a conversation in the porposals thread.
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In Ottawa, we have the National Gallery of Canada, which was established in 1880. It had quite a few temporary homes until the Moshe Safdie Gallery was completed in 1988.
It started out in the old Supreme Court Building, 1882 to 1911. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...reme_Court.jpg Move to the Victoria Memorial Museum, where it had space from 1911 to 1960. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ature_-_11.jpg In 1960, they moved into an office building on Elgin, the Lorne Building. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eYv6opBqDv.../IMGP07152.JPG And of course, they finally moved to their current location on the Ottawa River in 1988. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._of_Canada.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...5252696%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...da_rampway.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Bourgeois.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...TEOrd200312-11 |
Calgary's Modern Art Gallery took over the Brutalist former site of the Planetarium. I was meaning to visit but then Covid and kids happened. Having loved the former Planetarium I'm really curious and excited to see how it turned out. A wonderful re-use and re-imagining of an architecturally significant building. There is an expansion planned as well.
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Wow, really digging that Calgary expansion plan!
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Clockwise from upper, left, National Art Gallery, Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Science and Technology, Canadian Museum of (sigh) History.
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Back in the day, there were signs in downtown Ottawa pointing to museums and other attractions. In the spirit of bilingualism and keeping things short, they only had the name of the museum and not the word "museum" or "musée". So you had road signs in Ottawa pointing to the bridge to Quebec indicating that this was the way to "Civilization". |
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<- War -> Civilization :) |
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Ottawa Art Gallery at Arts Court, the City's municipal gallery. It occupies the former provincial court house (hence the name "Arts Court", built in 1870. When a new courthouse opened on Elgin Street, the building was handed over for that use.
In 2018, an addition was built at the back on the former site of the Ottawa Police HQ (built in 1955, shuttered in 1983 with temporary uses for emergency housing and food bank, demolished in 1994 for a parking lot due to structural issues). This addition is a the base of a Hotel Germain and condo tower. The Arts Court Complex is connected to the old Carleton County Jail, now a youth hostel. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/...s680-w680-h510 https://www.google.com/search?q=arts...ZQdnRFaFZQM3g5 https://facadesplus.com/wp-content/u...N24_300dpi.jpg https://facadesplus.com/wp-content/u..._N6_600dpi.jpg https://facadesplus.com/the-new-otta...ver-detailing/ It's interesting that the Vancouver Art Gallery is also in a former courthouse, though a far grander one. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...7380987%29.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Art_Gallery |
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