Museum · Lower Town / Sussex Drive
National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa K1N 9N4
Canada's national art museum sits on Sussex Drive above the Ottawa River, in a glass-and-granite building with the Maman spider sculpture outside. It shows Canadian, Indigenous, European and American art in large permanent galleries plus a rotating program of major exhibitions. Entry is free on Thursday evenings.
Permanent exhibitions
- Canadian and Indigenous art galleries from historic to contemporary work
- European and American art from the medieval period to the 20th century
- Rideau Street Chapel interior reassembled inside the museum
- Photography, prints and drawings collections shown in rotation
