Fonds 0307 - Art Museum at the University of Toronto fonds

The Art Museum is comprised of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House) and the University of Toronto Art Centre (University College). Located just a few steps apart, the two galleries were federated in 2014 and began operating under a new visual identity as the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, one of the largest gallery spaces for visual art exhibitions and programming in Toronto. Building on the two galleries’ distinguished histories, the Art Museum organizes and presents a year-round program of in-house and off-site exhibitions, as well as intensive curricular engagement and educational events.

The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery is housed with Hart House, and for a long time was managed as an independent art gallery. In 2014, the gallery became one of two Art Museums (along with the University of Toronto Art Centre) managed centrally by the University of Toronto, to form the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.

The University of Toronto Art Centre opened to the public in November of 1996. It was created by a collective effort of many University of Toronto staff and volunteers. An initial gift from the Delta Gamma Women's Fraternity made the conversion of the 1961 north wing of University College possible. The purpose of the Art Centre was to provide a home for three permanent collections of art belonging to the University: the Lillian Malcove Collection (which came to us by bequest in 1981), the University College Collection (Canadian art), and the large and eclectic University of Toronto Art Collection.

In 2014, UTAC was federated with the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House) to form the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.