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Established in 1971, Contemporary Art Gallery is a non-collecting public art gallery in downtown Vancouver, focused on contemporary art. The CAG exhibits local, national, and international artists, primarily featuring emerging local artists.

The Equinox Gallery of Vancouver, a modern and contemporary art gallery run by Andy Sylvester. Founded in 1972, Equinox Gallery is committed to presenting the work of local and Canadian artists.

The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art is a Vancouver public art gallery named after the acclaimed Haida artist Bill Reid. The Gallery is dedicated to understanding and appreciating contemporary Aboriginal art of the Northwest Coast of North America.

One of Canada’s leading and most influential contemporary art galleries and cultural centers, Toronto-based NSC showcases, nurtures and develops exciting talent as well as provides an innovative programme of curatorial projects.

Toronto’s Walnut Contemporary Gallery, opened in Autumn 2012, occupies a space that was once a Legion Hall. The original structure provides the gallery with a gorgeous high-ceilinged, hard-wooded gallery space that seeks to become an inclusive art space for the city.

MKG127 in Toronto is a contemporary gallery space that opened its doors to the public in 2007. As of Autumn 2012, it has put on over 50 exhibitions including that of Jayce Salloum, Kristina Lahde and Michael Dumontier.

The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) creates Vancouver-focused exhibitions and programs that encourage dynamic conversations about what was, is, and can be Vancouver. Permanent exhibitions tell the city’s stories from the early 1900s to the late 1970s.

The Vancouver Art Gallery houses a permanent collection of over 10,000 artworks and offers both historical and contemporary exhibitions of painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography and video by regional, national and international artists.

Science World is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization in Vancouver. It features many permanent interactive exhibits and displays, as well as areas with varying science-related topics throughout the year.

The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art was founded from the former Art Gallery of North York in 1999. In 2005, MOCCA relocated to the West Queen West Art + Design District in downtown Toronto, in the heart of one of North America’s most dynamic arts communities.

The Gardiner Museum is Canada’s national ceramics museum. Its permanent collection includes works from the Ancient Americas, Italian Renaissance, English Delftware, Chinese and Japanese porcelain, European porcelain, and a Contemporary gallery.

The Art Gallery of Ontario is an art museum in Toronto's Downtown Grange Park district, on Dundas Street West between McCaul Street and Beverley Street. Its collection includes more than 80,000 works spanning the 1st century to the present day.

Founded in 1912, the Royal Ontario Museum is Canada's largest museum of world culture and natural history. The museum’s galleries include a Natural History gallery, World Culture galleries, Hands-on galleries and Institute for Contemporary Culture gallery.

The Museum of Inuit Art opened in 2007 and is Canada's only public museum south of the Arctic devoted to Inuit art. MIA features an ongoing exhibition of hundreds of works of Inuit art ranging from sculpture carved from stone, to ceramics, prints and wall hangings.