Description

Essentials about the Vancouver Art Gallery in brief

Art lovers should have seen the Vancouver Art Gallery when visiting Vancouver. The gallery is the largest public art museum in Western Canada and is home to one of the largest collections of Canadian and North American artists, including well-known names such as Emily Carr, The Group of Seven, Jeff Wall and Harry Callahan.

The building of the Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery is housed on bustling Robson Street in Vancouver’s former main courthouse, a beautiful neoclassical structure built in 1906. Founded in 1931, the museum moved to its current location in 1983 after the courthouse was converted for museum use at great expense by renowned Canadian architect Arthur Erickson.

The collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery has over 40,000 square feet of exhibition space. The permanent collection consists of over 10,000 works of art, including 200 significant works by Emily Carr and illustrations by Marc Chagall. In addition, local artists from Vancouver and the province of British Columbia are strongly represented, including Jeff Wall, Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, Roy Arden and Ian Wallace.

And what’s more, the Art Gallery owns an important collection of historic landscape paintings as well as 17th-century Dutch paintings and one of the most important collections of photographs, including those by star photographers such as Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman and Henri Cartier-Bresson. In addition to its own works, the Vancouver Art Gallery also regularly shows loans from other museums in temporary exhibitions.

Website

vanartgallery.bc.ca

Opening hours

Admission fees

Adults: $24.00

Seniors (Ages 65+): $20.00

Students: $18.00

Children (Ages 6 – 12): $6.50

Small children (Ages 5 and under): free

For further information on possible discounts, see the website.

Address

Getting there

By public transport:

SkyTrain line Canada: Stop Vancouver City Centre Station

SkyTrain lines Expo and Millenium: Stop Granville Station

Bus lines 4, 7, 10, 14, 16 and 50: Stop Howe St @ W Georgia St

Bus lines 240, 241, 242, 246 and 247: Stop W Georgia St @ Granville St

By car:

The nearest parking garages are the Hotel Vancouver Parkade, the Pacific Centre Mall Parkade and the Robson Square Complex.