The day
About this tour
The Art Gallery of Ontario holds over 120,000 works spanning eight centuries, and the right guide makes all the difference. This private interior tour with an art specialist is tailored to your interests and paced entirely to your own rhythm.
It begins with the building itself, transformed in 2008 by Toronto-born architect Frank Gehry, whose soaring steel and glass forms define its face on Dundas Street. Inside, the Galleria Italia, a 137-metre arcade of glass and wood, rivals anything on the walls for sheer ambition.
Your guide then finds the works that reward the most attention, and the stories behind them. The Thomson Collection brings Renaissance and Baroque paintings together with remarkable Gothic boxwood miniatures, while the Group of Seven galleries tell how seven landscape painters reimagined Canadian art. The Henry Moore Sculpture Centre holds the largest public collection of his work in the world, and European masters from Rubens and Rembrandt to Monet and Van Gogh sit alongside Indigenous art and contemporary works, including Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms.
The route
Where the day goes
- Hotel pickup
- Gehry architecture and Galleria Italia
- The Thomson Collection
- Group of Seven
- Henry Moore Sculpture Centre
- European, Indigenous and contemporary collections
Stops in order, without a clock against them. Your guide sets the pace on the day and can lengthen a stop, swap one out or skip ahead entirely.
The detail
What is included
- Private art specialist guide
- Admission tickets
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off
- Bespoke tailoring
Rates are quoted before HST and admissions. Anything bought on the day is arranged for you and charged at cost.
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