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421 Ridout Street North
London, ON
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Experience poetry at its most monumental in these outsized writings selected from Thomas King's latest book "77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin".
View ExhibitionCarson engages with the often-neglected backdrops to our lives, celebrating the mystery of living spaces rather than the narratives unfolding within them.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition examines the multifaceted ways the idea of “realism” has been visually interpreted by Canadian artists with different intentions, at different moments in history.
View ExhibitionOctober 24 is World Polio Day. To mark it, Museum London and the South London Rotary Club have paired up to create this small exhibition.
View ExhibitionIn "The Lost City", 75 black-and-white photographs by London-based artist Ian MacEachern depict 1960s life in the North End of Saint John, New Brunswick, before urban renewal.
View Exhibition"London Lens" brings together works by Ian MacEachern and Don Vincent which portrayed life in our downtown, representing work and leisure, and the creative cultural ferment in which the London Regionalists flourished.
View Exhibition"Ways of Being" looks at the practices of Australian Aboriginal artist Yhonnie Scarce and Canadian First Nations artist Michael Belmore as they critically celebrate Indigenous ways of knowing the world.
View ExhibitionThe works of Esmaa Mohamoud imaginatively re-purposes sports gear to re-examine understandings of contemporary Blackness.
View ExhibitionMonkman’s gender-fluid, time travelling alter-ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, is our guide on a journey through Canada’s history that starts one-hundred and fifty years before Confederation and takes us to the present.
View ExhibitionCome and see examples of the china, ceramic, pottery, and plaster items Museum London has collected over the years to help tell the story of London and Middlesex County.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition welcomes new works into our collection, helping Museum London convey a broader representation of contemporary art created by Indigenous artists.
View ExhibitionMuseum London has some 400 examples of sheet music and we've reproduced the covers of 99 of them in this exhibition.
View ExhibitionA collection of historic objects and images that spark a conversation to oppose prejudice, discrimination, and oppression as well as to promote inclusion and diversity.
View ExhibitionHighlighting the synergy between visual art and music, "Art is Art" showcases the visual art practices of prominent Canadian recording artists.
View ExhibitionPolaris Music Prize Posters are meant to honour Canadian music albums of great artistic merit, both contemporary and from the past.
View ExhibitionA stunning retrospective photography exhibition showcasing the past 40+ years of Canadian music and the JUNO Awards.
View ExhibitionTake a look inside the layered and complex world of being a female in the music industry.
View ExhibitionLearn how paper has been central to human progress and still remains a vital element within the art sphere.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition shares Museum London’s rich holdings of fabric-based works, gathering items from both the regional history and art collections.
View ExhibitionJust in time for the JUNOS, this exhibition features approximately 100 juried works inspired by art and music by the elementary and secondary students of London.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition investigates hair as an emblem of health, beauty, and identity within society.
View ExhibitionMerle Randolph Tingley (1921-2017), better known as “Ting,” he was, for over forty years the much-loved London Free Press political cartoonist.
View ExhibitionGrottesque features Winnipeg artist Bev Pike’s most recent series (2012-18) which depicts strange underground grottos and caves, lush with baroque detailing.
View ExhibitionSouthwestern Ontario has produced some of the world’s most celebrated and innovative comic artists, of which twelve of them are featured in this exhibition.
View ExhibitionNine songs about nine paintings inspired by the Museum's collection weave a story about love, death, beaches, the meaning of art, and ice cream.
View ExhibitionIn Voices of Chief’s Point, today’s Anishinaabeg explore traditional stories and songs recounted by Robert and Eliza Thompson in 1938 as part of their continuing efforts to overcome colonization.
View ExhibitionKelly Jazvac salvages vinyl refuse from signage companies to create two and three-dimensional works that take a second look at plastics, recycling, and the permanent mark our throwaway culture is making on the planet.
View ExhibitionThe Canadian artist collective BGL will be taking over all three Ivey galleries with their large-scale installations this summer.
View ExhibitionFeaturing more than 150 artifacts from Museum London’s material culture collection, this exhibition will invite you to explore the history of some of our guilty pleasures and bad habits.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition will consider what it meant to be female in Canada from the end of the nineteenth century through to the end of the twentieth century.
View ExhibitionIn Embodiment, numerous works by Canadian women artists come together to examine the creation of social meaning on a variety of levels, from the personal to the global.
View ExhibitionCover art and dust jackets from books held in Museum London’s extensive material culture collection.
View ExhibitionMuseum London is the institution of record for many nationally significant artists. This exhibition offers a cross-section of ongoing collecting efforts.
View ExhibitionFeaturing over 100 artifacts from Museum London’s extensive artifact collection to explore the history of packaging.
View ExhibitionGovernor-General’s Award-winning artist Robert Fones is a pioneer in Canadian conceptual art. His work investigates ideas of time and identity—geographical, societal, and technological.
View ExhibitionCome and see a display of artifacts and images that illustrates the way in which London and the wider region grew with the country over those years
View ExhibitionBearing witness to those affected by Canada’s Indian Residential Schools, the Witness Blanket installation is stopping in London two years into its cross Canada tour. Victoria
View ExhibitionFor almost 100 years, first radio and then television has kept the community abreast of local, national and international news and events, showcased local talent, and provided entertainment and companionship.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition presents new ways in which sound, and by extension, communication and language, can be experienced.
View Exhibition“Sparrow night” is a term from folklore that describes a night storm featuring intense sheet lightning. The exhibition sets off a trimester of programming focussing on the senses.
View ExhibitionIn the early 20th century Londoners often relied on postcards to stay in touch. Londoners sent and received picture postcards with the goal of building up the best and most complete collection possible. Come see the many
View ExhibitionThis exhibition celebrates the rich artistic output of London from its earliest days as a city in the mid-1800s through to today.
View ExhibitionView the work of Brian Jones and see his meticulous technique and inventive imagery through selected drawings, prints, oil, and watercolour paintings.
View ExhibitionFor this exhibition, we invited elementary and secondary students to reflect on the theme of Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation.
View ExhibitionThrough art and artifacts, this dynamic exhibition explores the history of symbols that have come to express the Canadian identity.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition explores how technological, psychological, and planned obsolescence impacted the household goods that Londoners bought from the late nineteenth through to the late twentieth centuries.
View ExhibitionArtists examine relationships formed between people and places, including resonant and often overlapping themes of community, travel, bridges and language.
View ExhibitionView rare, distinctive, and intriguing artworks acquired by collectors in the city of London, Ontario.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition explores the history cursive writing, the tools required for the job, how children were taught to write, and why this dying skill continues to be important.
View ExhibitionDo you like to collect objects that remind you of your travels and other life experiences? You are like legions of Londoners from the past. These aide-memoire make our past experiences part of our everyday lives.
View ExhibitionZaatari’s practice involves unearthing, collecting and re-contextualizing documents that represent his country’s complex history.
View ExhibitionThis group exhibition of contemporary art examines issues of memory and time, through personal narratives and larger, shared histories.
View ExhibitionIn the dead of winter or the heat of summer, outside or inside, Canadian children have always worked hard to have fun! This exhibition examines our favourite games and toys over the past 130 years.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition explores the work of contemporary artists who borrow from play and games to reveal social, philosophical, and cultural issues.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition examines the larger story of Canadians’ relationship with fresh water by focusing on the Thames, Speed, and Eramosa rivers.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition will take visitors back to another time and remind us about the messages toys communicate.
View ExhibitionExplore more than 100 paintings that represent some of the best of our permanent collection.
View ExhibitionThis group exhibition is comprised of contemporary artworks that speak to concepts of work, including absurdist satire and sobering sociopolitical insight.
View ExhibitionLet’s Eat! will also introduce viewers to a range of Londoners who participated in interviews about their food and cooking today.
View ExhibitionBenner’s monumental installation, In Digestion, began with a series of simple questions about the food we consume: who grows it, where is it grown, how is it processed and shipped.
View ExhibitionAcquired Tastes explores the complex human relationships surrounding food, which not only keeps us alive but structures all aspects of our experience: politics, the economy, ecology, and social diversity.
View ExhibitionThe work of Lucy and Jorge Orta explores major concerns that define the twenty-first century: biodiversity, the environment, climate change and communication.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition of photographs will give you a glimpse into a London of different eras and a snapshot of the lived experiences of Londoners of the past.
View ExhibitionThe exhibition highlights the experiences of those who lived with permanent disability and the deaths of loved ones
View ExhibitionMichael Belmore, Hannah Claus, Patricia Deadman, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Keesic Douglas and Melissa General
View ExhibitionSince the mid-1960s, the works of West Lorne-based sculptor Ed Zelenak have garnered acclaim on regional, national, and international levels.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition features some of the cooking treasures left to us by Londoners from the distant and no-so-distant past.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition illuminates the lives of Canadian veterans through the deeply personal carvings and drawings made by soldiers concealed in the allied caves and trenches near Vimy Ridge, France.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition is a focused survey drawn from a thirty-year period of the work of the contemporary Canadian artist Jane Buyers.
View ExhibitionWe invited elementary and secondary students (K-12) in the Thames Valley District School Board and London District Catholic School Board to reflect on the theme of "nature" and create artwork in a variety of media.
View ExhibitionThe natural world has been constantly envisioned by artists around the world.
View ExhibitionOver the course of the twentieth century, the development of public art museums and galleries in Ontario (and indeed, across Canada) was spurred to a large extent by the efforts of women.
View ExhibitionThis unique exhibition features highlights of Canadian art from the historic collection that was begun in at the beginning of the twentieth century by Hart House at the University of Toronto.
View ExhibitionArtists have long painted outdoors, but by the mid-nineteenth century, working in natural light became particularly important to the Barbizon School and the Impressionists.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition explores the lives and work of early London artists John and James Griffiths.
View ExhibitionThis historical exhibition brings together imagery and ephemera related to artist associations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in Canada in general, and in Ontario and Middlesex County in particular.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition brings together works and artifacts from the Peel family, which exist at the intersection of artistic and historic significance in London, Ontario, during the latter half of the nineteenth century.
View ExhibitionThe exhibition includes numerous works local collections, never before exhibited, as well as several loans from public and private collections in California.
View ExhibitionBorn in Hamilton, Ontario, Margaret Watkins is now regarded as one of Canada’s most important modernist photographers. This exhibition is the first retrospective to examine her career.
View ExhibitionThe abstract images of Patrick Howlett are often small-scaled yet intense, works that can be appreciated for their individual formal merits and their playful invention.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition explores the ongoing importance of abstraction in the work of Mount Brydges, Ontario-based sculptor Patrick Thibert, tracking important themes inspiring his practice for more than forty years.
View ExhibitionIf the best contemporary art pushes boundaries, challenges expectations, and illuminates some aspect of the human condition, the recent wave of artwork from Canada’s North is a resoundingly powerful statement.
View ExhibitionLandmark Canadian artifacts from the permanent collections of the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto are integrated with the work of contemporary Canadian artists.
View ExhibitionSteeped in the tradition of Canadian landscape painting, Willmore has long produced quick, plein air sketches on board, later transforming them into expansive studio paintings on scraped and gouged plywood panels.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition presents more than 100 years of hats in London, Ontario, showcasing a wide array of examples of this once staple clothing accessory.
View ExhibitionThis retrospective exhibition explores the costumes, props, identities and stories of pioneering performance artist Colette Urban.
View ExhibitionIn this exhibition of contemporary art, the form tales take and the way they are expressed is examined, engaging traditional conventions of storytelling as well as nonlinear forms of communication.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition traces the production of seven artists, the majority of whom were born and raised in London, Ontario, who follow their own unique creative vision
View ExhibitionThis exhibition is the first large-scale, comprehensive, survey of the career of Kim Ondaatje, an artist, filmmaker and cultural advocate whose diverse efforts have impacted the art of this region and beyond.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition follows a retrospective thread, displaying an array of paintings, drawings and more sculptural works dating from the early 1970s to the present.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition provides an intimate glimpse into several of these schools, exploring the question of what was considered an appropriate education for young women “above the working population.”
View ExhibitionThis exhibition traces the past fifteen years of the career of Myfanwy MacLeod, highlighting complex, irreverent works which bring into play a variety of themes and media.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition traces a year in the life of artist Iain Baxter, during his tenure as Creative Consultant to Labatt Breweries president Sidney Oland, from 1982 to 1983.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition tells the story of London’s long-time, historic brewery from humble beginnings as a business dream of Irish immigrant farmer John Kinder Labatt, who came to Upper Canada in 1833.
View ExhibitionOrganized by students in the public history program at Western University, this selection of artifacts from the Museum’s collection examines the history of work in London.
View ExhibitionHousehold chores, part-time jobs, parents’ jobs and future careers were the inspiration for a variety of artworks in all media.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition showcases over 30 pieces of wind-powered folk art from the collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
View ExhibitionSince London’s earliest days of settlement, a perfect storm of geography, climate and human activity have conspired to create a community long marked by severe and catastrophic weather events.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition stages an encounter between historical and contemporary visions of environmental and social crisis.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition presents stories and personal experiences of the War of 1812 in the London and Western Districts.
View ExhibitionA nod to Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World, this contemporary group exhibition examines scenarios, both real and imagined, that critique the present and foreshadow the future for our planet.
View ExhibitionRealignment features a variety of new sculptures by well-known London artist Bob Bozak. Each work is inspired by and underscores the importance of automobile culture in North American life.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition surveys Adams’ 30-year career as an inventor of strange new worlds.
View ExhibitionDrawn from the Museum London vaults, this exhibition traces the long-held fascination Canadian artists have had with the sky and with weather.
View Exhibition"Beal," as the school is informally known, has consistently risen above the controversies that have occasionally plagued it to produce exceptionally talented, highly skilled graduates
View ExhibitionThis exhibition showcases photographs by Vancouver-based painter Attila Richard Lukacs produced over the past 25 years as referents for paintings.
View ExhibitionAs the works in this exhibition Homeland reveal, over the last decade the practice of London-based artist Thelma Rosner has moved quite literally to new territory.
View ExhibitionWith featured artworks and archival documentation, this retrospective exhibition endeavours to recapture some of the energy, enthusiasm and optimism the Embassy Cultural House.
View ExhibitionA selection of curiosities representing both natural and human history from the Museum London collection.
View ExhibitionThis retrospective exhibition examines the career of celebrated artist, author and illustrator Arthur Heming (1870-1940).
View ExhibitionThe site of political, military, religious and, more recently, commercial colonization, Canada’s Arctic has long been a contested space.
View ExhibitionIllustration in Canada began slowly, recording the geography and population of a fledgling country. As technologies improved, and as literacy grew, illustration flourished to meet a wide range of goals.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition includes print and lithography artifacts from the Museum's permanent collection, as well as original and reproduction magazine and commercial art.
View ExhibitionIrene Avaalaaqiaq has enjoyed a distinguished thirty-year career as one of Canada’s most prominent Inuit artists and a leading member of the prolific artistic community of Baker Lake, Nunavut.
View ExhibitionThis installation by Toronto-based artist Janice Gurney features a series of 7 photographic panels arranged beneath a selection of works from the Museum's permanent collection.
View ExhibitionDanger and Aftermath is a salon-style installation of the latest photography by Larry Towell, a Bothwell-based photographer and the first Canadian member of the renowned cooperative Magnum Photos.
View ExhibitionBy the turn of the 20th century, an extraordinary idea had taken hold across North America—that frequent bathing, perhaps even a daily bath, was good for one’s health.
View ExhibitionThe fear of bombs falling from the sky and landmines exploding from the earth is revealed in this exhibition.
View ExhibitionThe exhibition emphasizes the many “fronts” established in a battle.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition pays tribute to South Street Hospital, which continues to provide services after 136 years in operation.
View ExhibitionThrough his monochromatic drawings, spare woodcut prints and figurative sculptures, Windsor, Ontario-based artist Victor Romao investigates issues of identity in distinctive ways.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition presents a range of work by contemporary artists who rely on exciting appeals to our senses as a means to comment on our remarkable and sometimes troubled times.
View ExhibitionEpics of visual speculative fiction, the drawings of London artist Kim Moodie seem to flow as streams, of dark yet humorous creativity, from an escape valve in the artist’s imagination.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition presents two new series of paintings by Forest, Ontario-based artist Gary Spearin.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition studies the virtuosity of each of the group members' colourism, approach and media.
View ExhibitionViews of the Canadian farm are featured in this selection of historical works from the Museum’s permanent collection.
View ExhibitionGardens have always had a variety of associations, symbolizing an Edenic paradise, issues of labour, gender, and folklore, even modernist ideas of progress.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition offers a survey of works by the Guelph-based artist Janet Morton.
View ExhibitionDrawing upon the Italian Futurist manifesto “that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed” this exhibition is inspired by the ever quickening pace of contemporary life.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition emphasizes the power and diversity of Canadian artists’ interpretations of the landscape.
View ExhibitionIn this exhibition, a diverse selection of work from the Museum’s permanent collection illustrates a variety of artistic processes, representing the changing nature of art-making over time.
View ExhibitionDig In offers a look back at the different ways Londoners and their neighbours relate to the earth around them.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition proposes a variety of ways that we can think about animals through representations.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition features a selection of works that span the career of London artist Tom Benner. The works reflect on our relationship with the natural world and explore issues of threat and survival.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition frames de Kergommeaux’s interest in process, form, and perception in his quest to understand the creative process.
View ExhibitionBy employing scale, repetition and intense, enveloping colour, Johnston’s work transports viewers to a new sensorial experience.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition features a selection of student artworks that respond to Museum London’s permanent collection, exploring the power of colour in Canadian art.
View ExhibitionColour Fields traces the ways in which artists have used colour provoke emotional reactions, explore issues of perception, or drive a narrative.
View ExhibitionBetween 1966 and 1967, the late London artist Jack Chambers worked exclusively on paintings that were dramatically different from anything he had produced to date—graphic images made with aluminum paint.
View ExhibitionFrom 1965 to 1968, Greg Curnoe produced almost 50 shaped object-collage works, in series of repeated “face” elements and one-of-a-kind objects.
View ExhibitionIt's Alive! explores Canadian artist Bertram Brooker’s search for a visual language capable of animating audiences by appealing to their physical desires.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition brings together studies and finished works that focus on parts of the body: hands, torsos, faces, and heads, in media ranging from drawing to photography, prints and sculpture.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition features 22 works by Canadian artists whose sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs convey a sense of abandonment, silence and ruin.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition explores the notion of the "Canadian frontier" as a site of myth production that stimulated multiple discourses, visual and textual, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the juncture where the two realms collide (and possibly make a new field altogether).
View ExhibitionGraham's work blurs the boundaries between art, architecture, urban design and geography exploring concepts of authenticity and inauthenticity, materiality and intangibility, fact and fiction.
View ExhibitionFor more than 40 years, Bill Vazan has used sculpture and photography to explore the human understanding of geography and cosmology.
View ExhibitionNatalka Husar takes her lifelong obsession with painting and with Ukraine, her ancestral home, into new territory and presents three interwoven narratives in the form of a history play in three acts.
View ExhibitionKrimiseries introduces a series of installations by international artists that offer ways of thinking about the nature of evidence, teasing open the space between signifier and signified.
View ExhibitionThis installation on the topic of smoking, channelled through French-American artist Marcel Duchamp.
View ExhibitionHomage to the Heart begins with an oral history from the artist's father and aunt recounting childhood memories of growing up in a Chinese hand laundry during the Depression.
View ExhibitionBotanical Model City is a site-specific work created for Museum London's Centre Gallery by Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist Kate Wilson.
View ExhibitionOrganized from Museum London's collection, this exhibition surveys Cryderman's graphic works, for her greatest artistic achievements occurred as a printmaker.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition marks the first survey of Eric Atkinson's works on paper.
View ExhibitionFocusing closely on the day-to-day contact between Native and non-Native, as well as larger governmental/colonial interests, this exhibition will pick up the story where archaeology becomes history.
View ExhibitionThis exhibition is drawn from the historical, modern and contemporary art collection of Museum London and loans from contemporary artists.
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11:00 am to 12:00 pm for seniors (65+)
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