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Originally Posted by Crawford
Canada doesn't do art museums, really. In the U.S. every podunk rust belt metro has an impressive art museum. Toledo has a shockingly good museum. Cleveland has a top-tier, museum among the best in the world. In Canada, even Toronto's museum is pretty meh.
I'd imagine Canada didn't have the early 20th century industrial titan types, or if they did, they were doing other civic stuff, or just spending it on women or something. Or maybe the WASP heritage meant no frivolous stuff.
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You really need to demonstrate that you know what you're talking about, because your posts almost always suggest otherwise.
Toronto's museum? In a discussion of Art Galleries, did you mean the Art Gallery of Ontario whose latest addition was designed by the late Mr. Gehry or the Royal Ontario Museum? I assume one of the two since those are the largest.
While neither is a global top 20 player, they are both solid institutions with good collection depth.
I mean AGO's collection is 90,000 works deep
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The National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa is quite good too. But the best thing about it is the architecture, and that's not knocking the collections.
ROM's collection is 18 million objects/artifacts.
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