Art Gallery of Guelph

Southwestern Ontario


More than 7000 works belong to the collection exhibited here in the Raymond Moriyama–designed galleries specializing in Inuit and Canadian art. The Donald Forster Sculpture Park is the largest at a public gallery in Canada and offers one hectare to explore, with gravity-defying cubes, beached boats and cell phones spiked onto agricultural sickles.


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