National Gallery of Canada

Activities & Events

• Sunday May 19, 2013
• event
  Exhibition

  Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.

   

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013

  22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013

  The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.

  The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.

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• event
  Exhibition

  Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences

  Galleries B102, B103

  This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
  
  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

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• event
  Exhibition

  Canadian Bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada

  NGC Library and Archives

  Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
  
  This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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• event
  Exhibition

  Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens

  Gallery C218

  A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.

  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

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• 10:00 AM
  event
  Exhibition

  Take part in a major art project by Jeff Thomas

  Duration : 4h

  Samuel de Champlain monument at Nepean Point

  Have your portrait taken by artist Jeff Thomas at the Samuel de Champlain monument at Nepean Point. 

   

  Sunday 19 May, 10 am – 2 pm

  Friday 21 June, 10 am – 2 pm

  Friday 9 August, 10 am – 2 pm

   

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• 11:00 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C208

  Featured artwork for this talk: The Shepherd Paris by Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Desmarais

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

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• 11:00 AM
  studio
  Workshops

  Artissimo

  Duration : 5h

  Great Hall

  Weekends and statutory holidays
  From 11 am to 4 pm

  A family art adventure located in the Great Hall. Hands-on activities. Free with museum admission.

  Learn more

  more
• 11:30 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C208

  Featured artwork for this talk: La danseuse by Antonio Canova

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

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• 1:00 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C208

  Featured artwork for this talk: The Shepherd Paris by Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Desmarais

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 1:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C208

  Featured artwork for this talk: La danseuse by Antonio Canova

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 3:00 PM
  music
  Concerts

  Music in the Galleries

  Duration : 1h

  Rotunda

  Please join musicians David Finkle and Laura Leonard, along with dancer Christine Friday for a mesmerizing performance in the Rotunda. 

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• Monday May 20, 2013
• event
  Exhibition

  Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.

   

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013

  22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013

  The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.

  The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences

  Galleries B102, B103

  This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
  
  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens

  Gallery C218

  A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.

  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Canadian Bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada

  NGC Library and Archives

  Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
  
  This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  more
• 11:00 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C201

  Featured artwork for this talk: St. Jerome in Penitence by Bartolomeo Montagna

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 11:30 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A108

  Featured artwork for this talk: Le pin by Tom Thomson

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 12:00 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C208

  Featured artwork for this talk: Dancer by Antonio Canova

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 12:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A108

  Featured artwork for this talk: Le pin by Tom Thomson

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• Tuesday May 21, 2013
• event
  Exhibition

  Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.

   

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013

  22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013

  The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.

  The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences

  Galleries B102, B103

  This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
  
  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens

  Gallery C218

  A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.

  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Canadian Bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada

  NGC Library and Archives

  Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
  
  This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  more
• 11:00 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C204

  Featured artwork for this talk: The Arrest of Christ by Matthias Stom

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 11:30 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A113

  Featured artwork for this talk: Musique à l'arrière by Harold Town

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 12:00 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C208

  Featured artwork for this talk: Dancer by Antonio Canova

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 12:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A113

  Featured artwork for this talk: Musique à l'arrière by Harold Town

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 1:30 PM
  adult-tour
  Tours

  Adult Art Tours

  Duration : 1h

  Rich, Famous and Fashionably Dressed

  In French. Ticket required.

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• Wednesday May 22, 2013
• event
  Exhibition

  Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.

   

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013

  22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013

  The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.

  The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences

  Galleries B102, B103

  This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
  
  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens

  Gallery C218

  A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.

  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Canadian Bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada

  NGC Library and Archives

  Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
  
  This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  more
• 11:00 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C212

  Featured artwork for this talk: The Letter by James Tissot

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 11:30 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A111a

  Featured artwork for this talk: Jardin de givre by Jean McEwen

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 12:00 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A109

  Featured artwork for this talk: Cobalt by Yvonne McKague Housser

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 12:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A111a

  Featured artwork for this talk: Jardin de givre by Jean McEwen

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• Thursday May 23, 2013
• event
  Exhibition

  Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.

   

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013

  22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013

  The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.

  The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences

  Galleries B102, B103

  This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
  
  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens

  Gallery C218

  A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.

  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Canadian Bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada

  NGC Library and Archives

  Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
  
  This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  more
• 11:00 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A106a

  Featured artwork for this talk: The Old Ferry, Louise Basin, Quebec by Maurice Cullen

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 11:30 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C108

  Featured artwork for this talk: La gouvernante by Jean-Siméon Chardin

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 12:00 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery A110

  Featured artwork for this talk: A Descent of Lilies by Pegi Nicol MacLeod

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 12:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C108

  Featured artwork for this talk: La gouvernante by Jean-Siméon Chardin

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 5:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C213

  Featured artwork for this talk: Iris by Vincent van Gogh

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 5:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery B207

  Featured artwork for this talk: White Flower I by Agnes Martin

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 6:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C213

  Featured artwork for this talk: Iris by Vincent van Gogh

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 6:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery B207

  Featured artwork for this talk: White Flower I by Agne Martin

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• Friday May 24, 2013
• event
  Exhibition

  Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.

   

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences

  Galleries B102, B103

  This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
  
  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens

  Gallery C218

  A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.

  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Canadian Bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada

  NGC Library and Archives

  Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
  
  This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013

  22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013

  The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.

  The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.

  more
• 11:00 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C213

  Featured artwork for this talk: Jean-Pierre Hoschedé and Michel Monet on the Banks of the Epte by Claude Monet

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 11:30 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Inuit Galleries

  Featured artwork for this talk: Nunali by Jackoposie Oopakak

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 12:15 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C213

  Featured artwork for this talk: Age of Bronze by Auguste Rodin

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 12:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Inuit Galleries

  Featured artwork for this talk: Nunali by Jackoposie Oopakak

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• Saturday May 25, 2013
• event
  Exhibition

  Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art

  Special Exhibitions Galleries

  Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.

   

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens

  Gallery C218

  A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.

  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  Learn more

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences

  Galleries B102, B103

  This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.
  
  Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  Canadian Bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada

  NGC Library and Archives

  Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.
  
  This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  more
• event
  Exhibition

  The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013

  22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013

  The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.

  The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.

  more
• 11:00 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C201

  Featured artwork for this talk: St. Catherine of Alexandria by Simone Martini

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 11:00 AM
  studio
  Workshops

  Artissimo

  Duration : 5h

  Great Hall

  Weekends and statutory holidays
  From 11 am to 4 pm

  A family art adventure located in the Great Hall. Hands-on activities. Free with museum admission.

  Learn more

  more
• 11:30 AM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Inuit Galleries

  Featured artwork for this talk: Nunali by Jackoposie Oopakak

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 1:00 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Gallery C202

  Featured artwork for this talk: Venus by Lucas (the Elder) Cranach

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

  more
• 1:30 PM
  talk
  Talks

  Docent's Choice(in French)

  Duration : 10 minutes

  Inuit Galleries

  Featured artwork for this talk: Nunali by Jackoposie Oopakak

  

  These 10-minute daily talks on one artwork from our collection are given in English by Gallery volunteers. Included with Gallery admission.

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