Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

The art museum was founded as the Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts in 1908 in order to house the 200 works of the Crown of Nova Scotia. It was renamed the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 1975. In 1999, plans were announced by the Government of Nova Scotia to establish a satellite branch of the museum in southwestern Nova Scotia. On the 28 May 2006, the institution opened a satellite branch of the museum in Yarmouth, a municipality in southwest Nova Scotia. The satellite branch, branded as the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Western Branch, provides additional exhibition space to exhibit works from the museum's permanent collection. In 2008, the museum published a report that recommended the construction of a new museum building, citing its present downtown building as "seriously inadequate." The museum's administration also noted that the building's lack of climate control and the region's weather have made it difficult to preserve works at the location. However, plans for these joint facilities with the art school were later scrapped. The proposed building was located at Bishop's Landing, bounded by Lower Water Street, Salter Street, and the Halifax Boardwalk. However, in 2022, the provincial government put the plans for the new building on hold due to the increasing costs associated with the project. ==Permanent collection==

As of March 2019, the museum had over 18,000 works in its permanent collection. More than 2,000 Nova Scotian, Canadian, and non-Canadian artists are represented in the museum's permanent collection. Acquisitions for the museum's permanent collection are reviewed by the museum's Curatorial Committee, which includes curatorial and conservation staff, before being assessed by the museum's Director, Chief Curator, and the Curator of Collections. Further approval is then required from the museum's Acquisition Committee, made up of local artists, community members, and members of the museum's Board of Governors, before it is presented to the Board of Governors itself for final approval. making the museum's collection the world's largest public collection of works by her. The works are displayed in the gallery's Maud Lewis exhibit, which is the most visited exhibition space in the museum according to the institution. In 1996, the museum took possession of the home, moving the small building into its Maud Lewis exhibit, along with some restoration work. In June 2013, the museum acquired a collection of 2,070 images by photographer Annie Leibovitz. The Leibovitz collection was donated to the museum by the Mintz family, after they acquired it for C$4.7 million. The museum's collection also features works from a number of First Nations artists, including Kent Monkman. ''Miss Chief's Wet Dream'', a acrylic-on-canvas painting by Monkman, is among the largest works in the museum's permanent collection. It also includes a number of Nova Scotia artists such as Nancy Edell, Charlotte Lindgren and Carol Fraser. Selected works File:2ndEarlofHalifaxByJoshuaReynoldsNSArtGallery.jpg|Joshua Reynolds, George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, unknown File:EdwardCornwallisArtGalleryofNovaScotia1756.jpg|Joshua Reynolds, Edward Cornwallis, 1756 File:Andrew Belcher (1761-1841), 1808 by Robert Field.jpg|Robert Field, Andrew Belcher, 1808 File:Edward Mortimer (c.1768-1819).jpg|Robert Field, Edward Mortimer, 1815 File:John O'Brien - Flagship Wellesley and Squadron Leaving Halifax Harbour, 1850.jpg|John O'Brien, Flagship Wellesley and Squadron Leaving Halifax Harbour, 1850 File:John O'Brien - The 'Arab', Brigantine, and the 'Milo', Brig, off Halifax Harbour, 1856.jpg|John O'Brien, The Arab, 1856 File:Frederick B. Nichols - Excelsior (late Chicago) Mill, Goldenville, 1871.Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.jpg|Frederick B. Nichols, Excelsior (late Chicago) Mill, Goldenville, 1871 File:John O'Brien - HMS Galatea, in a Heavy Sea, 1888.jpg|John O'Brien, , in a Heavy Sea, 1888 == See also ==