Winnipeg Art Gallery
This is a photograph of an overhead view of the Winnipeg Art Gallery on Memorial Boulevard. The Winnipeg Art Gallery was established in 1912 but was located in a different building. This makes it the oldest public art gallery in Western Canada. It mostly contains the artwork of Manitobans but also contains some pieces from artists all over the world. Click on the link below to read the notes of a journalist, Kip Park, who interviewed the architect of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, to see why the Winnipeg Art Gallery is considered by many Manitobans to be such a culturally-important landmark. Then write a paragraph or two in your own words on why you think or don't think that the Winnipeg Art Gallery is a culturally-significant Manitoban landmark.
Read Kip Park's interview notes on the history of the Winnipeg Art Gallery.