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Includes museums with artifacts and art of both the First Nations people and the Inuit. Pages in category "First Nations museums in Canada" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
The Museum's beginnings lie in the University of British Columbia's acquisition of the Frank Burnett Collection in 1927. These works, in addition to two important Musqueam house posts that were acquired and donated by the UBC graduating class of 1927, a number of salvaged totem poles acquired from Canadian anthropologist Marius Barbeau, and the Buttimer collection of First Nations basketry ...
The Gallery was one of 26 newly established national exhibition centres opened in Canadian communities. By 1982, the Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre and Centre for Indian Art – as the Gallery was called then – had expanded into three exhibition galleries, a collection storage area, and new capacity for exhibition and acquisition of art.
The archives range from the 1870s to the 1990s, documenting the social, political and economic history of Western Canada, particularly Calgary and southern Alberta. Areas of specialty include First Nations, Métis genealogy, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, ranching and agriculture, the petroleum industry, politics, labour, women
One Sunday every May, more than 30 of the city's largest museums and galleries offer free admission and extended opening hours. [6] To facilitate visitor access to as many museums as possible, the Montreal Transit Corporation provides free shuttle buses. The first Montreal Museums Day was held in 1987.
The early 21st century saw the museum increase the representation of First Nations art in its Canadian-centred galleries, including the R. Samuel McLaughlin Gallery. [78] First Nations artists whose works are featured in the museum's collection include Charles Edenshaw and Shelley Niro. [63]
The gallery specialized throughout the 1990s in First Nation’s artists of all levels of experience and media could exhibit their works. Among the important of the events developed by grunt gallery is, the 1997 computer generated performance "An Indian Act Shooting the Indian Act" by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun .
The National Gallery of Canada (French: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. [8] The museum's building takes up 46,621 square metres (501,820 sq ft), with 12,400 square metres (133,000 sq ft) of space used for exhibiting art.