{"id":597400,"date":"2026-07-21T20:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/597400\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:48:21","slug":"mcmichael-gallery-to-close-next-week-for-a-three-year-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/597400\/","title":{"rendered":"McMichael gallery to close next week for a three-year renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The McMichael Canadian Art Collection says the redevelopment will add 60-per-cent more space ‘for exhibitions, education, conservation and public programming,’ while also modernizing the facilities.McMichael Canadian Art Collection\/via The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection will close its doors next week for a three-year renovation.<\/p>\n

The gallery in Kleinburg, Ont., northwest of Toronto, is home to one of the largest collections of artwork by Canadian icons Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven and their contemporaries. <\/p>\n

The McMichael says the project, estimated at $150-million, will be the largest addition to the gallery in 40 years.<\/p>\n

The gallery says the redevelopment will add 60-per-cent more space \u201cfor exhibitions, education, conservation and public programming,\u201d while also modernizing the facilities.<\/p>\n

The building got its start as the log-and-fieldstone home of Signe and Robert McMichael, art lovers who began collecting works by the Group of Seven after they married.<\/p>\n

The couple donated their tree-filled property, including the midcentury building and the art collection it housed, to the provincial government in 1965.<\/p>\n

The McMichael says the redevelopment will maintain the low roofline and timber-and-stone construction of the original home.<\/p>\n

The gallery says much of the collection will remain accessible during the construction period, because it will go on tour across the country and abroad.<\/p>\n

It says it received $50-million from the provincial government, $25-million from the federal government and another $50-million from private donors for the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The McMichael Canadian Art Collection says the redevelopment will add 60-per-cent more space…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[4320,365,362,4309,363,364,4321,9,4302,4322,995,4301,4314,4315,4311,4303,4300,366,179,2597,18,117,440,4313,4307,4333,4304,4305,3428,19,17,4310,3521,3136,4323,4306,4328,4329,4331,4326,4330,4324,4327,430,4317,4318,790,4316,4325,4308,82,4319,4312,4222,66,4332],"class_list":["post-597400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-alberta","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-arts-news","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-design","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}