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Art Gallery of Ontario

A major Canadian art museum in Toronto, featuring a vast collection of over 90,000 works including Canadian, European, and contemporary pieces.

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Arguably Canada’s best art gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) houses hundreds of paintings by Canadian artists, most notably the famous Group of Seven and their contemporaries, who specialized in expressionist landscapes, as well as Indigenous artists from around the world. But even if you’re not an art buff, the building alone is worth a visit: the redesigned exterior was led by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, who envisioned a massive glass whale protruding onto downtown Toronto. Inside, the building’s smooth wooden walkways and curved stairways lead from a modern space into the original Grange mansion built in 1817. Explore behind the AGO to see the brand-new Grange Park (redesigned and reopened in 2019) and the award-winning Ontario College of Art and Design, which is basically a massive funky black-and-white brick perched atop stilts.      

mfraiman 2 years ago

This massive museum located in the heart of Toronto displays over 9000 works of art and is considered one of the most distinguished museums in North America. The museum contains Canadian, First Nations, Inuit, African, European, and Oceanic artists. The architecture of the Art Gallery of Ontario has two buildings, one is a historical manner named The Grange, which is attached to the main building designed to have a more contemporary feel to it.

madeleineray 3 years ago

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