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National Gallery of Canada Description

The National Gallery of Canada, designed by Moshe Safdie, is an architectural masterpiece, a highly successful, ultra-modern building that, with its prism-like glass towers, echoes the lines of the nearby Parliament Buildings, and while strongly contrasting with their Neo-Gothicism and the mock medieval Château Laurier nevertheless fits very well into Ottawa's cityscape.

Among the gallery's major works, those by Canadian artists include "Joseph Brant" (1805) by William Berczy, "North Shore, Lake Superior" (1926) by Lawren S. Harris, "Blunden Harbour" (1930) by Emily Carr, "Journey on Foot" (undated) by Pitseolak, and "Reason over Passion" (1968) by Joyce Wieland.

From Europe come Hans Memling's "Virgin and Child

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Hobbies & Activities category: Major world-scale museum; Architecture - Modern; Paintings, art collections

National Gallery of Canada Highlights

First Floor

The first floor traces the development of Canadian art, including early religious art from Québec and Nova Scotia (much of it 19th C), the reconstructed late 19th C convent chapel, works by Tom

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Main Floor

The gallery shop, auditorium, lecture rooms and cafeteria are on the ground floor, with a colonnade leading to the prism-shaped great hall.

The main floor also features major temporary exhibitions seasonally.

Second Floor

The second floor covers a wider spectrum, ranging from European art of the 17th and 18th C, through Impressionism, and up to American art after 1945, in addition to 20th C British artists,

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Address

National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Drive, Box 427, Station A
Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4
Canada

Map National Gallery of Canada

Phone 1 (613) 990-1985
Fax 1 (613) 993-4385

http://www.gallery.ca

Hours

May 1 to September 30

Open	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00
Closed	17:00	17:00	17:00	20:00	17:00	17:00	17:00

October 1 to April 30

Open	10:00	Closed	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00
Closed	17:00		17:00	20:00	17:00	17:00	17:00

Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1) Good Friday - Christian Christmas - Christian (December 25)