National Gallery Of Canada
Established | 1880 ( 1880 ) | |
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Coordinates | 45°25′46″N 75°41′54″W / 45.429434°N 75.698386°W / 45.429434; -75.698386 Coordinates : | 45°25′46″N 75°41′54″W / 45.429434°N 75.698386°W / 45.429434; -75.698386 |
Type | Art museum | |
Collection size | 93,625 [1] | |
Visitors | 385,576 ( FY 2017–18) [2] | |
Director | Alexandra Suda | |
Curator | Kitty Scott (Chief Curator) | |
Architect | Moshe Safdie (1983) [3] [4] [5] | |
Public transit access | Rideau [6] 9 Rideau/Hurdman |
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Website | www .gallery .ca |
National Gallery Of Canada
National art museum in Ottawa, Canada The National Gallery of Canada ( French : Musee des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa Ontario , is Canada's national art museum 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. The largest North American art museum by area is it.
Established at the Second Supreme Court of Canada, 1880. The Victoria Memorial Museum was built in 1911. The National Gallery Act was passed by the Government of Canada in 1913. This act officially established the institution as a national museum of art. In 1960, it was relocated to the Lorne structure.
The museum was transferred to the new structure in 1988. A glass and granite structure on Sussex Drive houses the National Gallery of Canada. It offers a great view of Parliament Hill, Canada. Moshe Saffdie, an Israeli architect designed the building and it was inaugurated in 1988.
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National Gallery Of Canada
As Canada's preeminent visual arts organization, and comprising the largest collection of contemporary Indigenous art in the world as well as the country's largest Canadian and European collection of art, The National Gallery of Canada represents Canadian identity on a world stage.
The Gallery hired AREA 17 as its branding agency to help it transform its image to better reflect its important work to decolonize and decenter stories, promote new voices, and redefine art in a wider and more inclusive setting.
Courtesy of National Gallery of Canada The new brand needed to reflect the organization's efforts of reconciliation with First Nations, Inuit and Metis people, as well as encompass a more inclusive perspective of Canadian art and culture. With the help of national focus groups and an advisory board of Indigenous Elders of Kitigan Zibi First Nations, the National Gallery of Canada designed a new brand, AREA 17, that included an Algonquin term.
Ankose stands for "Everything is connected", also known as "Tout est Relie". It refers to how we all connect to each other, as well to the earth, water, and sky. This is an appeal to people to look beyond the structure of narratives, buildings, and the frames to discover the endless connections beyond them.
Like the word Ankose, the brand is an open system of inclusion, and is ever changing. The system was created to change the organisation's geometric from that of a square in the Western World. View-Westminster Parliamentary Tradition) is transformed into a permeable, circular system (Indigenous World View/Governance System). The system is made up of the individual shapes of the logo, denoting the multitude of voices, ideas and perspectives that combine, shift, interconnect to create a larger whole.