Visual Arts
The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is a public art gallery founded in 1912. It was Canada's first civic gallery and is the sixth-largest in the country. The WAG's permanent collection includes over 20,000 works, with a particular emphasis on Manitoban and Canadian art. The gallery includes the world's largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art.
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