The Gardiner Museum is closed temporarily in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Check our homepage for a rotating selection of online resources and digital art experiences that you can enjoy at home. Be sure to sign up for our e-newsletter and follow us on social media for your daily ceramics fix.
During our temporary closure, we're posting exhibitions and selections from our collection online. Discover Inuit ceramics, Chinese and Japanese porcelain, pottery from the Ancient Americas, and more!
We're posting family-friendly art activities inspired by our collection and the endless possibilities of clay. Visit our Family Day page for weekly crafts, colouring pages, and more fun art projects that you can enjoy at home.
Every object in our permanent collection can be accessed through our eMuseum portal. Learn about individual collecting areas, like Italian Maiolica or Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, or search the full collection by keyword. You'll be amazed by what you discover!
We’re closed until further notice, but we’re planning for the day when we can again welcome visitors. We encourage you to make a gift to the Gardiner. This will be vital for when we reopen, and is the optimistic message we all need.
The Gardiner Museum thanks the generous individuals, corporations, foundations and government funders who make it possible for the Gardiner to celebrate the art of clay.
The Gardiner Benefactor Award
The Gardiner Benefactor Award is given to a donor or donors who have sustained the Museum over an extended period through their significant generosity through donations of objects, financial support, or both.
Bill & Molly Anne Macdonald, 2014 In Memory of R. Murray Bell & Ann Walker Bell, 2015 Robert & Marian Cumming, 2016 Dr. Pierre Karch & Dr. Mariel O’Neill-Karch, 2017 Jean & Kenneth Laundy, 2018 Diana Reitberger, 2019
Gardiner Meritus
The Gardiner Museum has had many board members, donors and volunteers who have served over the years, and the Museum has benefited greatly from their support. To recognize this contribution to the Museum, and to ensure these key stakeholders remain connected to it, the distinction of “Gardiner Meritus” was created.
Our Gardiner Meritus members include previous board members, both Trustees and Directors; previous Presidents of the Gardiner Volunteer Committee (GVC) and volunteers who have served for over 20 years; donors giving $50,000, in funds or objects, in individual or cumulative gifts; and others may be suggested by senior staff or Board members to the Executive Director, including prominent artists who work in clay, past Gardiner Board Committee members, or those with a similar profile. Individuals in this category would need to be approved by the Governance Committee.
Exhibition Sponsors
La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso Kim Spencer McPhee LLP Hal Jackman Foundation The Rooney Family Foundation Farrow & Ball
Education & Programs Sponsors
The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation The W. Garfield Weston Foundation RBC Foundation The Langar Foundation Gardiner Volunteer Committee
Event Sponsors
RBC Wealth Management Blakes LLP Torys LLP La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso Boszko & Verity BMO Financial Group The Langar Foundation The Thor E and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation AXA Canada Inc./ Ecclesiastical Insurance/HUB International HKMB Limited
Government Partners
Canada Council for the Arts Province of Ontario Ontario Arts Council Ontario Arts Foundation City of Toronto
This reflects donations made in 2019.
The Museum makes every effort to accurately publish our donor listings. If there is an error please call us at 416.408.5051.
Please note that only organizations are recognized on this page to protect the privacy of our individual donors.
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