Museum Visits

With thanks to the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies at the University of Toronto for its coordination, the Society is pleased to offer conference attendees special tours and visits of the Gardiner Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Advance registration is required for each of these events, and each event is limited to twenty participants. (Waiting lists will be created as needed.)

1. Gardiner Museum. Friday, November 1, at 11 a.m. Private viewing of the exhibition Test Kitchen: A Museum Project, featuring highlights from the Gardiner’s collections of Italian Maiolica and English Delftware. Led by Dr. Karine Tsoumis, Senior Curator at the Gardiner, this event includes free admission to the open portions of the museum. The collections are currently closed to the public due to a major renovation. To sign up for this event, click here.

2. Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Friday, November 1, at 2 p.m. Guided tour of the South Wing of the European Galleries, focusing on the ROM’s Renaissance and Baroque collections, including the Tudor Bedroom, Celestini harpsichord, Italian Maiolica, a large Della Robbia tondo of the Virgin and Child, furnishings, sculpture, Venetian glass, a portrait of Marie de Medici, and pieces from the collection of Viscount and Viscountess Lee of Fareham. Led by Jennifer Kinnaird, Collections Specialist, European Collections in the Department of Art & Culture, this event includes free admission to the museum. To sign up for this event, click here.

3. Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Friday, November 1, at 1 p.m. Guided tour of Early Modern Collections at AGO. Led by Adam Harris Levine, Associate Curator of European Art, this event includes free admission to the museum. To sign up for this event, click here.