Art Gallery of Ontario

The Art Gallery of Ontario began in 1900 as the Art Museum of Toronto, and its first home was The Grange, a restored Georgian mansion that now also serves as a museum of life in Upper Canada in the 1830s. It took its current name in 1966. Toronto-born architect Frank Gehry led a renovation that opened in November 2008, with sculpted staircases, including a spiral staircase, and extensive glass that brings in natural light. The redesign roughly doubled the display space.

The collection holds more than 95,000 works, from classical European pieces to Canadian, Indigenous and international art, with Group of Seven paintings in the Ontario galleries. The Henry Moore Sculpture Centre holds the world's largest public collection of Moore's work, and the gallery has the largest African art collection in Canada. Admission is free on the first Wednesday evening of each month from 6 to 9 p.m. with tickets booked ahead, and visitors 25 and under can get a free annual pass.