The Image Centre
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  Location of the gallery in Toronto | |
| Established | September 2012 |
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| Location | 33 Gould Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Type | Photography, art museum and education centre |
| Director | Paul Roth |
| Curator | Gaëlle Morel |
| Public transit access | ■ Dundas subway station 505 Dundas streetcar |
| Website | www |
The Ryerson Image Centre, (formerly known as the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre), is a renovated and remodelled former warehouse building at Gould and Bond Streets on the campus of Ryerson University in Toronto. The centre includes gallery, collections, teaching, research and exhibition spaces and shares the building with the School of Image Arts.
History
The gallery was officially opened on September 29, 2012.
The new building, designed by Toronto architect Donald Schmitt (architect) Donald Schmitt of Diamond and Schmitt Architects[1] contains:
- Three public gallery spaces
- Glassed in entrance Colonnade that hosts the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
- A fully staffed professional research centre with museum-quality environmental controls
- A climate controlled vault to house the collections, including The Black Star Collection
The centre was in part created to display some of the 292,000 photos from Black Star which it had received as an anonymous donation.[2]
References
- ^ "Ryerson Image Centre". UrbanToronto. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
- ^ "Black Star photos on show at new Ryerson gallery". CBC News. 28 September 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-29.