The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is proud to further the story of Canada's cultural history by unveiling its new permanent gallery showcasing the country's rich decorative and pictorial arts.
The Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada opens to the public on Saturday, October 6, 2007 as part of the ROM's Fall 2007 A Season of Canada.
The spacious, light-filled Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada reshapes the way Canada is presented at the ROM, showcasing the country's best collection of early Canadiana in a thematic fashion.
The Gallery's loft-like, open design allows visitors to move freely around the 882 square-metre (9,500 square-foot) space according to their personal interests.
Symbols, emblems and images of Canada, and what they suggest about changing ideas of Canadian “identities”, play a key role in this vibrant new permanent gallery.
“The Royal Ontario Museum completes its Canadian Suite of galleries on the main floor with the opening of the Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada,” says the ROM's Director and CEO William Thorsell.
“With this beautifully restored space in the Weston Family Wing, the Museum continues the story of early Canada, its people, the artistic quality of its decorative and pictorial arts, and is finally able to display the ROM's growing contemporary collection.”
The Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada is the latest new gallery to open in the ROM's historic Queen's Park building as part of Renaissance ROM, the Museum's expansion and restoration project.
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