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Winnipeg / Kanada

Winnipeg [ˈwɪnɪpɛg] ist die Hauptstadt der kanadischen Provinz Manitoba und zugleich deren mit Abstand größte Stadt. Sie zählte im Jahr 2011 über 660.000 Einwohner, die Metropolregion rund 730.000. Damit ist Winnipeg die siebtgrößte Stadt in Kanada. Der Name leitet sich vom 55 Kilometer nördlich gelegenen Winnipegsee her; „win“ bedeutet in der lokalen Cree-Sprache schlammig und „nipee“ Wasser. Bekannt als Gateway to the West , ist Winnipeg ein Eisenbahn- und Verkehrsknotenpunkt mit einer diversifizierten Wirtschaft. Die Stadt ist multikulturell und Heimat mehrerer Sportvereine. Winnipeg war 1967 erster kanadischer Gastgeber der Panamerikanischen Spiele. Die Stadt ist bekannt für zahlreiche jährliche Festivals, darunter das Winnipeg Folk Festival.

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Winnipeg / Kanada

The Winnipeg Art Gallery is an art museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Its permanent collection includes over 24,000 works from Canadian, and indigenous Canadians, and international artists. The museum also holds the world's largest collection of Inuit art. In addition to exhibits for its collection, the museum has organized and hosted a number of travelling arts exhibitions. Its building complex consists of a main building that includes 11,000 square metres of indoor space and the adjacent 3,700-square-metre Inuit Art Centre. The present institution was formally incorporated in 1963, although it traces its origins to the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Arts, an art museum opened to the public in 1912 by the Winnipeg Development and Industrial Bureau. The bureau opened the Winnipeg School of Arts in the following year, and operated the art museum, and art school until 1923, when the two entities were incorporated as the Winnipeg Gallery and School of Arts. In 1926, the Winnipeg Art Gallery Association was formed to assist the institution in operating its museum component. The Winnipeg Gallery and School of Art was dissolved in 1950, although its collection was loaned indefinitely to the Winnipeg Art Gallery Association, who continued to exhibit it. In 1963, the Winnipeg Art Gallery Association was formally incorporated as the Winnipeg Art Gallery by the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. The museum moved to its present location in September 1971, with the opening of a purpose-built building designed by Gustavo da Roza. In 2018, the museum began construction of the Michael Maltzan designed Inuit Art Centre, in order to house the museum's Inuit art collection.