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This Georgian mansion was the AGO’s first home. Restored to the period 1834–40, it gives a taste of what life was like for Toronto’s privileged class in the mid-19th century, as does the weekly performance of Scandal in The Grange .

The world’s largest public collection of works by British artist Henry Moore (1898–1986) encompasses bronze sculptures, plaster and bronze maquettes, drawings, and prints. His monumental Large Two Forms broods outdoors, its surface worn smooth by admirers’ countless rubbings.

Iconic scenes of the northern Ontario landscape epitomize this deeply influential group of painters who strove, in the 1920s, to create a national artistic identity. The collection features signature work by A. Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, and Tom Thomson, who died before the group officially banded together.

Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir are just some of the 19th-century artists whose masterpieces grace this estimable collection.

Major works by Betty Goodwin, Joanne Tod, and Elizabeth Magor demonstrate the strength and diversity of contemporary Canadian artists. Conceptual art is represented by Michael Snow, Jeff Wall, and Paterson Ewen, who painted on plywood gouged with an electric router.

Abstract Expressionist, Pop, Minimal, and Conceptual examples illustrate the evolution of late- 20th-century art in North America and Europe.

The largest philanthropic cultural gift in Canadian history, these 2,000 works add remarkable depth to the AGO’s collection, with emphasis on Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, 19th-century painters Cornelius Krieghoff and Paul Kane, and the work of 20th-century radical abstract expressionists Paul-Émile Borduas and Jean-Paul Riopelle.

Ranging from the 15th to 21st centuries, this is the most comprehensive collection in the country, with over 14,000 sheets. Important Italian, Dutch, German, French, and British pieces are found here – Adam and Eve (1504) by German etcher Albrecht Dürer being a highlight. Works by Canadian artists also have a strong presence.

This broad collection showcases historic calotypes by Linnaeus Tripe and work by 20th-century modernist Josef Sudeck. Modern Canadian pieces round out the exhibit.

Focusing on art produced after World War II, this huge collection of sculptures, prints, drawings, and wall hangings – crafted from indigenous materials – is one of the finest anywhere.