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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.
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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 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.
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References
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External links
- Official website
- School of Image Arts
- Ryerson School of Image Arts Gallery homepage
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