Glenbow Museum

130 9 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P3

Get directions from:

Your browser does not support the HTML5 Geolocation API. Enter your address in the text field above and try again.

You denied permission to use your current location. Enter an address in the text field above or change your location sharing settings for this page.

Unable to find your current location. Enter an address in the text field above and try again.

Location search timed out. Enter an address in the text field above and try again.

Address130 9 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P3

Phone403-268-4100

Fax403-262-4045

Visit Website

Email please enable javascript to view

Hours

Tues to Sat 9 am – 5 pm; Fri till 8 pm; Sun noon - 5 pm. First Thurs 5 pm - 9 pm Free Admission

Location Type - Art Galleries Public

For 50 years, Glenbow has surprised and engaged visitors with remarkable connections between art, history and diverse cultures from around the world. Glenbow’s exhibitions feature historical, modernist and contemporary art from the museum’s collection, as well as exhibitions travelling from other national and international art institutions. Tues to Sat 9 am – 5 pm; Fri till 8 pm; Sun noon - 5 pm. First Thurs 5 pm - 9 pm Free Admission. Glenbow Shop Hours: Mon to Sat 11 am – 6 pm; Sun noon - 5:30 pm.

Kent Merriman Jr.

Suspiciously like readymades, these exquisitely crafted paintings hide in plain sight.

Aug 24, 2019
New CEO for Glenbow

Nicholas R. Bell is the new president and CEO of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.

Aug 20, 2019
Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

Shimmering and lithe, sculpted with readymades and tchotchkes, Nick Cave’s performative art embodies otherness.

Jul 12, 2019
Glenbow to Continue Free First Thursday Nights

The Glenbow says it will continue to offer free entry on the first Thursday evening of the month through 2019.

Dec 13, 2018 1 Comments
Arctic Art

The Glenbow weaves complex stories as it explores real and imagined views of the North from the 19th century.

Dec 2, 2018
Feet on the Ground

Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal explores the role of the Jingle Dress dance in Indigenous healing.

Nov 19, 2018
Glenbow Appoints Art Curator

The Glenbow has appointed Sarah Todd as its art curator.

Sep 14, 2018
Calgary ArtWalk Turns 35

Saturday, Sept. 15 and Sunday, Sept. 16 This year marks the 35th anniversary of ArtWalk, a free annual festival that invites Calgarians to experience a wide range of visual arts.

Aug 25, 2018
Burning Down the House

Calgary-based artist Gwenessa Lam’s powerful new work considers how digital technologies are shifting our perceptions of truth and reality.

Jul 12, 2018 1 Comments
Alex Janvier Retrospective Opens at the Glenbow

A major retrospective about Alberta artist Alex Janvier organized by the National Gallery of Canada opens June 16 at Calgary's Glenbow Museum.

Jun 7, 2018
Emily Carr: Is It? Or Isn't It?

Experts debate whether a drawing in a self-portrait show at Calgary's Glenbow Museum is actually Emily Carr or by Emily Carr.

Mar 26, 2018
Frida Kahlo Photographs in Calgary

A box of 6,500 photographs, forgotten for half a century, was found in a storage room at Frida Kahlo's house in Mexico.

Jan 29, 2018 1 Comments
COMING SOON Frida Kahlo: Her Photos February 3 – May 20, 2018

For the first time in this country, visitors will be able to see a treasure trove of images previously locked away in the Kahlo estate archives for more than 50 years.

Dec 15, 2017
Glenbow inducts three new Fellows

Glenbow has announced the induction of acclaimed writer and professor Aritha van Herk, George Bezaire, past Chair, Glenbow Board of Governors, and award-winning senior Calgary photographer George Webber as Fellows of the Glenbow-Alberta Institute.

Oct 5, 2017
The Black Gold Tapestry

Beautiful and gentle, but with a political pulse like a metronome, the "Black Gold Tapestry" is contemporary fine craft based on a medieval masterpiece.

Sep 25, 2017
Romancing the Canoe in Calgary

An exhibition that explores Canada's love affair with the canoe through art is on view at the Glenbow.

Jul 28, 2017
Kent Monkman Confronts History

Miss Chief Eagle Testickle usually struts across Kent Monkman’s canvases in her spike heels fearlessly battling – and ravishing – cowboys, settlers and Mounties.

Jun 18, 2017
"Artefacts: Contemporary Moving Images Adad Hannah: The Raft of the Medusa (Saint-Louis)" now at Glenbow

"Artefacts: Contemporary Moving Images Adad Hannah: The Raft of the Medusa (Saint-Louis)" the first of three-part exhibition series on at Glenbow until May 22, 2017.

Mar 26, 2017
Historic Photos of the North

When Geraldine Moodie created a 1906 portrait of several Inuit mothers with their offspring, including two naked babies, her camera captured an atmosphere of maternal ease and warmth.

Feb 27, 2017
One Photo Every Minute

As the shortest day of the year arrives, visitors to the Glenbow Museum in Calgary can contemplate the longest via a fascinating project by M.N. Hutchinson.

Dec 19, 2016
Library and Archives Canada to launch displays at Calgary’s Glenbow

Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce that portraits and artworks from its collection will be on display in Calgary as of 2018.

Oct 6, 2016
MMFA, purchase, Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest, Photo: MMFA, Christine Guest

ALL THAT JAZZ: Beaver Hall Group paintings from 1920s show this fall at Calgary’s Glenbow Museum

It’s taken almost a century, but some of Montreal’s best-known Jazz Age paintings are finally travelling west this fall as the Glenbow Museum in Calgary exhibits the touring show 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group.

Sep 5, 2016
Collection of Glenbow

Long lost RFM McInnis' painting part of Glenbow "Recent Acquisitions" show

Painted from life, one figure at a time, it depicted 60 of the noted artists, dealers, framers, and patrons of the time, in multiple panels totaling 12 metres.

Feb 23, 2016
Photo by Richard White

Glenbow: Strokes of Genius?

Our Everyday Tourist blogger Richard White riffs on the merits of Glenbow's Free First Thursdays program. Spoiler: he likes it... a lot.

Feb 19, 2016
Fellows inducted and new Chair elected at GLENBOW AGM

Glenbow announced the induction of music legend Ian Tyson, Calgary philanthropist Dr. Marmie Hess and late Kainai elder Frank Weasel Head as Fellows of the Glenbow-Alberta Institute at the museum’s Annual General Assembly on September 16.

Sep 17, 2015
Myth Making: The Art of John Brocke

This short film captures the perspectives of Glenbow’s guest curator, Douglas MacLean, and the widow of artist John Brocke, Anna Gardner, as they reflect on the themes presented in Brocke’s work. Published June 4, 2015.

Sep 3, 2015
Collection of TransCanada Pipelines Ltd.

JOHN BROCKE: "Myth Making," Glenbow Museum, Calgary, June 6 to Sept. 13, 2015

The exhibition is presented in a rough timeline, which also separates the works, more or less, into interior and exterior scenes. The curation by Travis Lutley and Douglas Maclean is subtle and clever.

Aug 18, 2015 1 Comments
GEOFFREY JAMES: "Inside Kingston Penitentiary," Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Feb. 14 to May 17, 2015

Bleak, oppressive. These words echo on viewing Geoffrey James’ photographs taken at Kingston Penitentiary in 2013, shortly before the closing of the 178-year-old prison.

Apr 14, 2015
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

"Made in Calgary: The 1990s": Feb. 5, 2014 to May 4, 2014, Glenbow Museum in collaboration with Contemporary Calgary

Rubber bugs, linoleum, dinner plates and rose petals are but a small selection of the interesting materials you will find in the art that graces "Made in Calgary: The 1990s."

Feb 28, 2014
New Direction Announced for Calgary's Glenbow

Citing the results of a year of extensive review, consultation and community engagement, Donna Livingstone, President and CEO of Glenbow, announced that moving forward, Glenbow will position itself as a “new kind of art museum”.

Feb 7, 2014
Donna Livingstone announced as new Pres and CEO of Glenbow

The Board of Governors of Glenbow Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Donna Livingstone to the role of full-time President and Chief Executive Officer of Glenbow Museum, effective immediately.

May 8, 2013
Appointment of Interim President and CEO Glenbow Museum Calgary

The Board of Governors of the Glenbow Museum is pleased to announce that Donna Livingstone has been appointed as the Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of the Glenbow.

Nov 6, 2012
All Collection of the Artist

"Critical Mass: Sculpture by Shayne Dark" Glenbow Museum, Calgary July 14 – September 3, 2012

With faint echoes of historic architectural space, the entrance to Ontario artist Shayne Dark’s exhibition is marked by what almost could be a grand-scale chandelier. But this structure hangs too close to the ground, and the objects more ambivalent.

Aug 1, 2012
IAIN BAXTER&'s "1n40rmat10n" exhibition in a jar

Glenbow Museum has produced a unique companion to the "1n40rmat10n" exhibition -- a digital publication stored on a reusable USB flash drive card.

Apr 26, 2012 1 Comments
GALT / GLENBOW EXHIBITION WINS ANTHROPOLOGY AWARD

A recent exhibition that brought five historic Blackfoot artifacts back to Alberta has won a prize from the American Anthropology Association.

Dec 31, 2011
"Portraits" Through June 19, 2011, Glenbow Museum, Calgary

Through June 19, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary flips the idea of portraiture on its head.

Apr 30, 2011
JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE, "The Glory of Abstraction," Glenbow Museum, May 15 to Aug 1, 2010

Though the exhibition was curated and hung according to four themes - Lyrical, Dynamic, Rigorous and Explosive - there may not be any discernable difference for the average viewer.

Apr 30, 2010
"Through the Looking Glass," September 26 to November 16, 2008, Glenbow Museum, Calgary

From September 26 to November 16, Glenbow Museum president Jeff Spalding curates a whimsical tour through dream spaces and reversals.

Aug 31, 2008