The Art Gallery of Sudbury is an

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Greater Sudbury Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the List of the largest cities and to ...

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, Canada. Established in 1967 by the city's

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under the

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projects, the gallery is located in the historic turn of the century arts and crafts movement Belrock Mansion of William J. Bell, an early

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in the city and

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. It was originally known as the

Laurentian University Laurentian University (french: Université Laurentienne), officially the Laurentian University of Sudbury, is a mid-sized Bilingualism in Canada, bilingual public university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, incorporated on March 28, 1960. Lau ...

Museum and Art Centre, or LUMAC, and adopted its current name in 1997.

Relocation and expansion plans

On October 27, 2010, the gallery announced that it will begin fundraising for and building a new gallery building, to be named the

Franklin Carmichael Franklin Carmichael (May 4, 1890 – October 24, 1945) was a Canadian artist and member of the Group of Seven. Though he was primarily famous for his use of watercolours, he also used oil paints, charcoal and other media to capture the Ontario ...

Gallery, with an initial target date of 2014. As of 2018, the new facility is planned to be colocated with a new main branch of the Sudbury Public Library. Construction on the new facility is slated to begin in 2020, on the current site of the

Sudbury Arena The Sudbury Community Arena is a multi-purpose arena in the downtown core of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It was built in 1951, on the site of the former Central Public School, at a cost of $700,000. The approval and construction of the arena ...

following the opening of a new larger arena in the city's east end."Sudbury selects arena site as new location for art gallery, library"
CBC Northern Ontario, January 9, 2018.

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