{"id":909395,"date":"2026-09-25T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909395\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:12:14","slug":"vancouver-art-gallery-celebrates-95-years-vancouver-blog-miss604","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909395\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Art Gallery Celebrates 95 Years \u00bb Vancouver Blog Miss604"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vancouver Art Gallery is celebrating its 95th anniversary this October, marking nearly a century as an integral part of Vancouver\u2019s cultural life. To mark the occasion, the Gallery will open its doors by donation on Friday, October 2nd.<\/p>\n

\"VancouverVancouver Art Gallery Miss604 Rebecca Bollwitt Photo<\/p>\n

Vancouver Art Gallery Celebrates 95 Years<\/p>\n

Friday, October 2, 2026 from 10:00am to 4:00pm<\/p>\n

Friday, October 2, 2026 from 4:00pm to 8:00pm<\/p>\n

Visitors can explore four floors of exhibitions and celebrate 95 years of art, artists and community, within a place where generations have encountered art and artists, exchanged ideas, seen the world from multiple perspectives, and gathered to connect, reflect and find meaning.<\/p>\n

About the Vancouver Art Gallery<\/p>\n

As the largest public art museum in Western Canada, the Gallery features the work of groundbreaking contemporary artists from around the world, presents historical art of international significance, and provides a global platform for British Columbia\u2019s dynamic artistic community, including the work of First Nations artists as well as art of the Asia. <\/p>\n

Its growing collection of over 12,000 artworks represents the most comprehensive resource for art in British Columbia and is the principal repository for visual art produced in the region, as well as related works by other notable Canadian and international artists. <\/p>\n

\"AprilApril 1931, construction of the first Vancouver Art Gallery building at 1145 W Georgia. City of Vancouver Archives CVA 99-3871, Stuart Thomson.<\/p>\n

The first iteration of the Vancouver Art Gallery opened in 1931 at 1145 West Georgia, a property donated by Henry Reifel<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In 1951, the Gallery was expanded to three times its original size in order to accommodate 157 works by Emily Carr<\/a>, willed by the artist to the province of British Columbia before her death in 1945. Fundraising for the expansion was led by Carr\u2019s close friend, Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris, who was instrumental in raising $300,000 toward the project, a sum matched by the City of Vancouver. Removing the Art Deco fa\u00e7ade, architect Ross A. Lort remodelled the Gallery in accordance with the International Style popular in Vancouver at the time. The Gallery remained at this location on West Georgia Street until 1983.<\/p>\n

The Vancouver Art Gallery opened in its current location, in the old courthouse building, on October 15, 1983. <\/p>\n

In 2013, the site at West Georgia and Cambie was chosen by city council. Ground broke in 2024<\/a> for a planned nine-storey, 350,000 square-foot gallery with classrooms, artist studios, an Indigenous community space, a theatre, a number of restaurants and some retail, among its exhibition spaces. It was set for relocation in 2028 but the project was halted in 2025 and scaled back<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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