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Director
  
Paul Roth

Province
  
Ontario

Curator
  
Gaëlle Morel

Phone
  
+1 416-979-5164

Ryerson Image Centre

Established
  
September 2012 (2012-09)

Location
  
33 Gould Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Type
  
Photography, art museum and education centre

Public transit access
  
■ Dundas subway station 505 Dundas streetcar

Address
  
33 Gould St, Toronto, ON M5B 1E9, Canada

Hours
  
Open today · 12–5PMSaturday12–5PMSunday12–5PMMondayClosedTuesday11AM–6PMWednesday11AM–8PMThursday11AM–6PMFriday11AM–6PMSuggest an edit

Similar
  
The Power Plant, Art Gallery of Ontario, CBC Museum, Textile Museum of Canada, Gardiner Museum

Profiles

Ryerson image centre


The Ryerson Image Centre, (formerly known as the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre), is a renovated and remodelled former warehouse building at Gould and Bond Streets on the campus of Ryerson University in Toronto. The centre includes gallery, collections, teaching, research and exhibition spaces and shares the building with the School of Image Arts.

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History

The gallery was officially opened on September 29, 2012.

The new building, designed by Toronto architect Donald Schmitt (architect) Donald Schmitt of Diamond and Schmitt Architects contains:

  • Three public gallery spaces
  • Glassed in entrance Colonnade that hosts the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
  • A fully staffed professional research centre with museum-quality environmental controls
  • A climate controlled vault to house the collections, including The Black Star Collection
  • The centre was in part created to display some of the 292,000 photos from Black Star which it had received as an anonymous donation.

    References

    Ryerson Image Centre Wikipedia