Gardiner Museum

Ontario · Canada

Gardiner Museum, Canada
Photo: Aviad2001, CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

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$$
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wheelchair-accessible
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Facing the Royal Ontario Museum, this institution is dedicated to ceramic art, one of the few museums in the world focused solely on the medium. Its collection ranges from ancient American pottery and Italian maiolica to English porcelain and contemporary studio ceramics. Galleries trace how clay has served ritual, table, and artistic purposes across cultures and eras. The museum also runs working studios where visitors watch and learn hand-building and wheel-throwing, connecting historic objects to living craft.

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