Winnipeg Art Gallery

Spoiled by the abundance of extraordinary exhibitions and authentic art, the picky public of New York, Tokyo, Thessaloniki, and Barcelona has repeatedly applauded the exhibitions of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, which has won international acclaim for its rich collections. Not to mention that every connoisseur of beauty dreams of visiting the Winnipeg Gallery to get to know its permanent exhibitions personally.

Within the walls of two small rooms in an old building at Water and Main Ave, more than twenty-four thousand of the most valuable art objects of Canada and the Manitoba province found their first home. The number of artworks snowballed, and the gallery had to change its place of residence often until 1971 when it moved to its current building, designed by talented architect Gustavo Da Roza.

Today, the spacious halls of the modern gallery host one of the world’s largest collections of Eskimo art, which was started with 130 unique Eskimo statues donated by famous collector George Swinton in 1960. Eleven years later, new exhibits were added to the exposition. About four thousand works of art of the Inuits, the aboriginal people of North America, from the private collection of Jerry Twomey, joined the collection. It now counts more than eleven thousand rare valuable assets unparalleled anywhere in the world.

Another treasure of the Winnipeg Art Gallery is an impressive collection of arts and crafts of the 17th and 20th centuries. Four thousand ceramic, glass, and metal artifacts, including antique tapestries, embellish the Art Gallery, along with two thousand rare photographs from the municipal archives. But the founders of the gallery didn’t stop there, and a museum library appeared in the building. In its funds, you can find one-of-a-kind publications: about ten thousand biographies of sculptors and artists and tens of hundreds of magazines dedicated to Canadian art.