Top Canada Art Galleries

Explore the endless opportunities. We have a wide range of activities for you to enjoy all season long. Take in new exhibitions, enjoy artist talks, make some art, take a tour, and so much more.

Housed in a neoclassical courthouse, the Vancouver Art Gallery has been an innovative art institution since 1931. Discover groundbreaking exhibitions displaying impressive photography, paintings, and sculptures from a diverse range of classic and contemporary artists from all over Canada and the world. Admission for children and youth aged 18 and under is always free.

Whistler has more to discover than just the ski hills. Tour exhibits that showcase art and artists who lived and worked on the Pacific Coast, from the 18th century until the present. The Audain is home to notable indigenous works, including James Hart’s The Screen Dance as well as art from Emily Carr, EJ Hughes, and Jeff Wall and Stan Douglas.

Arcadia Earth is Toronto’s newest immersive attraction and a must-add to any Toronto itinerary. This isn’t a traditional museum. Guests step into a fully immersive world featuring mind-blowing installations that combine art, technology, and interactive storytelling. The experience explores some of the most pressing issues facing your planet, so visitors leave not only entertained, but inspired and informed. Located at The Well, Toronto’s newest shopping and dining destination, Arcadia Earth is perfectly paired with the city’s best food hall, bars, restaurants, and shopping, making it an easy and memorable stop during your visit downtown.

Purchase your admission ticket to the Bata Shoe Museum in advance and head straight in to the galleries. During your visit, learn about the often-overlooked history of footwear and see artifacts that range from Egyptian sandals to chestnut-crushing clogs.

dmission to Museum - Are You Curious? Immerse yourself in Canadian Indigenous Culture in an historic log building on the banks of the Bow River in Banff where eagles soar. Inspiring respectful coexistence, the Museum provides a safe space for Indigenous peoples of Canada to share their history, culture, and to encourage visitors to practice reconciliation. Groups can also pre-book via phone call or email customized Indigenous experiences, guided tours indoors and outdoors, medicine walks, beading workshops, drumming lessons, sharing circles, corporate retreats and learning, weddings, reunions, speaker events.

David Garneau: Dark Chapters and Reading the Ruins comprises a pairing of exhibitions by Canadian Métis artist and scholar, David Garneau. Dark Chapters, curated by Arin Fay, uses metaphorical still life paintings to share the lived experience of contemporary Indigenous people contending with the legacy of colonialism and institutional containment. Reading the Ruins, curated by Dick Averns, continues the vein of still life paintings to contemplate current conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine, and the ongoing legacy of the Dark Times that followed the repression of Métis people. Reading the Ruins, includes new paintings featuring NWMP-era artefacts from the holdings of University of Calgary Libraries, Special Collections and Archives. The re-contextualized paramilitary artefacts are also displayed.

Public Guided Tours of the Permanent Collection are available at 2:00pm on Sundays, included with the cost of admission. The Museum's knowledgeable Docents discuss the historical context, artistic movements, techniques, and messages within the art of the Permanent Collection.

Public Guided Tours of the Special Exhibition are available on Sundays at 3:00pm, included with the cost of admission. The Museum's knowledgeable Docents discuss the historical context, artistic movements, techniques, and messages within the art of the Special Exhibitions.