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New Inuit Art Centre to bring the Arctic to Winnipeg

Winnipeg Art Gallery CEO and director, Stephen Borys, shows CBC's Janet Stewart what the new Inuit Art Centre will look like and how it will show off more than 13,000 pieces of Inuit art.

CBCs Janet Stewart gets a first look at the $60M gallery planned for downtown

Stephen Borys on the Inuit Art Centre at the WAG

9 years ago
Duration 3:19
The Winnipeg Art Gallery's Director Stephen Borys talks with CBC's Janet Stewart about the plans for the new Inuit Art Centre at the WAG

Sustainableandwelcoming are twotenets of the $60 million Inuit Art Centre slated for downtown Winnipeg, says StephenBorysdirector andCEO of the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

In a recent tour,Borys showed the CBC's Janet Stewart how the new gallery will transportthe Arctic to downtown Winnipeg through architecture and, of course, the work of Inuitartists.

The province of Manitoba promised on Friday to contribute $15 million to the project,$30 million has already been collected in private donations to help fund the newfour-level, 40,000-square-foot centre.

Winnipeg is home to the world's largest collection of Inuit art, with more than 13,000 pieces in the Winnipeg Art Gallery's collection. Most of the pieces, which include textiles, sculptures and paintings,are currently housed at the gallery'svault. The goal of the new art centre, is to put the collection on display for the public to see, saidBorys.

Construction is planned to beginat the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017 and expected to be completed in two years.

A tour of the WAG's Inuit Art collection

9 years ago
Duration 3:57
Darlene Coward Wight, the Winnipeg Art Gallery's Curator of Inuit Art, shows CBC's Janet Stewart artifacts the in basement vaults few people ever get to see.