National Gallery of Canada

Canada’s national art museum, established in 1880 with the support of Governor General John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, grew from early homes on Parliament Hill and in the Victoria Memorial Museum into a major institution in Ottawa. Formally defined as a national museum in 1913, it gained its purpose-built home in 1988, when Moshe Safdie’s glass-and-granite building gave it a monumental setting near Parliament Hill. The museum holds more than 93,000 works across Canadian, Indigenous, European, American, and Asian art, lends hundreds of works annually, and has also faced challenges involving governance, wartime-looted art, and its evolving public role.

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