The Art Gallery of Ontario is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, on Dundas Street West. The building complex takes up 45,000 square metres (480,000 sq ft) of physical space, making it one of the largest art museums in North America and the second-largest art museum in Toronto, after the Royal Ontario Museum. In addition to exhibition spaces, the museum also houses an artist-in-residence office and studio, dining facilities, event spaces, gift shop, library and archives, theatre and lecture hall, research centre, and a workshop.
Dundas Street façade of the AGO in 2023
Image: Art Gallery of Ontario logo
A south view of the first expansion building in 1922
Construction for the Frank Gehry redesign of the museum complex in February 2008
Grange Park (neighbourhood)
Grange Park is a neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded on the west by Spadina Avenue, on the north by College Street, on the east by University Avenue and on the south by Queen Street West. It is within the 'Kensington-Chinatown' planning neighbourhood of the City of Toronto. Its name is derived from the Grange Park public park. The commercial businesses of Chinatown extend within this neighbourhood.
Grange Park, a public park in the neighbourhood
The neighbourhood took its name from The Grange, a Georgian styled residence built in 1817.
Shops in Baldwin Village a commercial enclave that has developed around Baldwin Avenue.
OCAD University's Sharp Centre for Design. The university's campus is located in Grange Park.