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Featured Exhibition

June 22, 2024 – January 12, 2025

In the late 19th century, the Impressionist movement found a footing in Canada, and Quebec artists quickly responded with works of rare beauty and sophistication. Many Quebec artists trained in France during this period, carrying the pollen of European modernism back with them to Canadian soil.

  • a cross on the side of a windy country road
  • Painting showing two women in long summer dresses, on the beach, one is standing, both scour the horizon
  • painting of a church during the winter season
  • Group of women knitting
Group of people talking inside an art gallery

Save the Date

Art Toronto
Opening Night

October 24 | 4 – 10 pm

Save the Date

Autumn Art Sale Fundraiser

November 29 – December 1

Current Exhibitions

Artwork by Caroline Monnet

Presenting a selection of works by Anishinaabe/French artist Caroline Monnet, this exhibition centres on a recent series of sculptures that explore language reclamation and intergenerational transmission through an engagement with the idea of land as a carrier of ancestral memory.

Jackson’s Wars: A.Y. Jackson before the Group of Seven is a rare examination of the work of painter Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson (1882–1974) in the decade before the Group of Seven’s formation in 1920.

Art by A.Y. Jackson
Webequoi girl standing in front of a teepee at Lansdowne-House

People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie includes more than 100 photographs taken by John Macfie (1925–2018), a settler trapline manager who worked in Northern Ontario in the 1950s and 1960s.

This selection of works from our permanent collection aims to convey something of its current breadth, taking particular pleasure in placing apparently disparate works in creative conversation with one another.

Landscape painting by Emily Carr

Site-Specific Installations

Image of art installations on a painted wall

Ongoing

Anishinaabe/Ojibwa artist Bonnie Devine‘s site-specific mural explores the history and geography of the Toronto Carrying Place Trail.

How to Enjoy the McMichael from Home

Sarah and Rajni during a talk

Curatorial Talks & Virtual Studio Visits

Catch up on the latest curatorial talks and artist conversations.

Adult Art Classes

Studio classes in a range of media led by professional art instructors.

eMuseum & Iningat Ilagiit

Explore the McMichael’s online collection of art and historical objects and discover Inuit art from the Kinngait (Cape Dorset) archive.

About the Gallery

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is located on the original lands of the Ojibwe Anishinaabe and Huron-Wendat People. It is uniquely situated along the Carrying Place Trail which historically provided an integral connection for Indigenous people between Ontario’s Lakeshore and the Lake Simcoe-Georgian Bay Region.

Located on 100 acres of forested land along the Humber River, the McMichael is a major public gallery uniquely devoted to collecting the art of Canada.

The McMichael’s permanent collection consists of more than 7,000 artworks by Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven, their contemporaries, and First Nations, Métis, Inuit and contemporary artists who have contributed to the development of Canadian art.

Visiting the Gallery

Gallery & Restaurant

Open Tuesday to Sunday & Holiday Mondays from 10 am to 5 pm.*

Public gallery tours are offered throughout the week and are free with admission. Check the schedule.

Free Family Sundays every 3rd Sunday of the month.

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Open daily.

Parking

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About Us

History of the McMichael

“…we were consciously envisioning a publicly owned gallery and actively planning and collecting for it…” – Robert McMichael