Exhibits
Current Exhibits
Ginok Song: I Reach Home, I am Serene 송진옥: 나는 집으로 다다르고, 고요함이 된다
Date: October 12, 2024 - January 19, 2025
Where: Level 3 Art Gallery
Denyse Thomasos: just beyond
Date: October 12, 2024 - January 19, 2025
Where: Level 3 Main Art Gallery
Tekweywinen tel weljesultiek (Be With Us in Our Joy)
Date: September 21, 2024 - April 6, 2025
Where: Level 4 Main Art Gallery
Billy Gauthier: The Earth, Our Mother
Date: Ongoing
Where: Level 4 Art Gallery
BEAUMONT-HAMEL AND THE TRAIL OF THE CARIBOU
Date: Ongoing
Where: Level 2 Royal Newfoundland Regiment Gallery
Fantastic Finds: Archaeology in Newfoundland and Labrador
Date: Ongoing
Where: Level 2 Atrium
Louis Koenig: Dead Calm but Torrential Rain
Date: On Now
Where: Level 2.5
How Do I Look? Ways of Understanding Art
Date: ongoing
Where: Level 4 Colonnades Art Gallery
A Dog's Age
Date: On until April 30, 2025
Where: Level 3 - Archives Entrance
Disappearing Ice – Changing Seascapes
Date: March 3, 2022 - Ongoing
Where: 3M Alcove
To the Boys Who Went West: The National War Memorial in St. John’s
Date: Ongoing
Where: Archives Reference Room
Connections: This Place and Its Early Peoples
Date: Ongoing
Where: Level 3, Connections Gallery
Here, We Made A Home
Date: Ongoing
Where: Level 4, The Elinor Gill Ratcliffe Gallery
Talamh an Éisc: The Fishing Ground
Date: Ongoing
Where: Level 4
From This Place: Our Lives on Land and Sea
Date: Ongoing
Where: Level 4, The Cenovus Energy Gallery
Virtual Exhibits
Past Exhibits
Witness: Canadian Art of the First World War
Date: September 19, 2015 – January 17, 2016
Where: Level 3, Main
Truth or Myth?
Date: October 22, 2016 - November 11, 2016
Where: Level 4
Newfoundland and Labrador from A to Z
Date: May 2017 to March 2018
Where: Level 2
Gretzky is Everywhere
Date: May 27 - September 24
Where: Level 4
jerry ropson: to kiss a goat between the horns
Date: May 27 - September 24
Where: Level 4
Photography in Canada: 1960 - 2000
Date: January 27 - April 22, 2018
Where: Level 3
Future Possible: Art of Newfoundland & Labrador to 1949
Date: May 12 - September 3
Where: Level 3
Up The Pond: The Royal St. John's Regatta
Date: July 2018 - June 2019
Where: Level 3
Ned Pratt: One Wave
Date: September 22, 2018 - January 20, 2019
Where: Level 3
Manfred Buchheit: Corners
Date: January 12 - June 2019
Where: Level 2.5
Nelson White: Eymu’tiek (We Are Here)
Date: January 19 to June 30, 2019
Where: Level 4 Museum
Pepa Chan: Brush
Date: January 19 to April 14, 2019
Where: Level 4 Media Room
Philippa Jones: Suspended
Date: January 19 to April 14, 2019
Where: Level 4 Main Gallery
At Full Tilt: Colette Urban in Western Newfoundland
Date: February 9 - April 28, 2019
Where: Level 3
Mohau Modisakeng: Passage
Date: February 9 - April 28, 2019
Where: Level 3
The Museum of Longing and Failure: MOLAF XX
Date: February 9 - April 28, 2019
Where: Level 3
Aishen Antene: 1946 – February 5th, 2019
Date: On now
Where: Level 3 Atrium
A Piece of Home: Newfoundland Trigger Mitts and Mittens
Date: February 15, 2019 - April 7, 2019
Where: Level 3 Atrium
From Far and Wide
Date: March 8, 2019 - April 30, 2019
Where: Level 3
Classics in Newfoundland: An Unexpected Presence
Date: March 26, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Where: Level 4 Atrium
A Cup of Tea? Antique Teacups and Saucers
Date: April - June 2019
Where: Level 4
An Afghan Wedding Outfit
Date: April - June 2019
Where: Level 3
Rodney LaTourelle and Louise Witthöft: First We Take the Museum
Date: May 18 - September 22, 2019
Where: Level 3
Billy Gauthier: Saunituinnaulungitotluni | Beyond Bone
Date: June 1 - September 2, 2019
Where: Level 4
Logan MacDonald: Bæōdut / Hidden Histories
Date: June 11 - January 12, 2020
Where: Level 2.5
Second to None: The History of Aviation in Newfoundland & Labrador
Date: Ongoing
Where: Level 3
A Job to Say: Newfoundland and Labrador Expressions
Date: Ongoing
Where: Level 2
Boarder X
Date: September 21, 2019 - January 5, 2020
Where: Level 4 Main Gallery
Fantastical Threads: Costumes at The Rooms
Date: October 1 - November 3, 2019
Where: Level 2-4
Marlene Creates: Places, Paths and Pauses
Date: October 12, 2019 - February 2, 2020
Where: Level 3 Art Gallery
Buddy the Puffin
Date: December 10, 2019 - January 28, 2020
Where: Level 3 Atrium
Loops to Live By
Date: December 17 - 2019 - January 27, 2021
Where: Level 4 Colonnade
Jon Sasaki: A Day Becomes a Sunrise
Date: Ongoing
Where: Level 2.5 Vitrines
Of Myths and Mountains
Date: February 1, 2020 - September 29, 2020
Where: Level 4 Main Gallery
Melissa Tremblett: Reprise
Date: February 29, 2020 - September 7, 2020
Where:
John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea
Date: February 29, 2020 - July 26, 2020
Where: Level 3 Art Gallery
What Carries Us: Newfoundland and Labrador in the Black Atlantic
Date: February 29, 2020 - September 7, 2020
Where: Level 3 Art Gallery
Michelle MacKinnon: Pandemic Portraits
Date: September 3 – November 1, 2020
Where: Level 2.5 Vitrines
Adad Hannah: Glints and Reflections
Date: September 26, 2020 – January 3, 2021
Where: Level 3 Main Gallery
Adad Hannah: Social Distancing Portraits
Date: September 26, 2020 – January 3, 2021
Where: Level 3 Harbour
In Their Own Words: Life for Labrador Students at Residential School
Date: September 30, 2020 - October 2021
Where: Level 3
Curtis Talwst Santiago: Infinity Series
Date: October 20, 2020 – May 9, 2021
Where: Level 4
Rae Perlin: Whatever I Wanted Was Out There, In the World, Somewhere
Date: October 24, 2020 – May 9, 2021
Where: Level 4 Main Gallery
Malin Enström: Inversion
Date: November 5, 2020 – January 17, 2021
Where: Level 2.5 Vitrines
Outdoor installation: Shelley Miller’s Trade
Date: November 2020
Where: Level 2, Balcony
One-Hundred Years of NONIA: A Proud Legacy
Date: December 1, 2020 - October 31, 2021
Where: 4M Museum Galleries Entranceway Case
Tanea Hynes: WORKHORSE
Date: January 23 - September 26, 2021
Where: Level 3 Harbour Gallery
Helloland! Art, War and the Wireless Imagination
Date: January 23 to September 26, 2021
Where: Level 3 Art Gallery
In The Making
Date: April 8, 2021 - September 24, 2023
Where: LEVEL 4 Colonnades
AUDREY FELTHAM: THE INNER LANDSCAPE
Date: April 20, 2021 - July 18, 2021
Where: Level 2.5 Vitrines
Cabinets of Curiosity
Date: April 23, 2021 - Winter 2022
Where: Level 2 Atrium
in/play: Cuppetelli + Mendoza
Date: June 7, 2021 - September 6, 2021
Where: Level 4 Main Gallery
José Luis González: Long Ways
Date: July 20 to October 24, 2021
Where: Level 2.5
Rising to the Occasion: Our Community Responds to COVID-19
Date: July 23, 2021 - December 2021
Where: Level 4 Museum
Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me
Date: September 25, 2021 - January 4, 2022
Where: Level 4 Main Gallery
Lauren Hodder: Oxeye, Aster
Date: October 23, 2021 - February 7, 2022
Where: Level 3 Harbour
Me < -- > You
Date: October 23, 2021 - February 7, 2022
Where: Level 3 Main Gallery
Eldred Allen: Resemblance
Date: October 26, 2021 - April 24, 2022
Where: Level 2.5 Vitrines
Tours of Duty: Stories of Service from Contemporary Veterans
Date: November 9, 2021 - March 1, 2022
Where: 4M Museum Gallery Entranceway Case
SOUNDINGS: AN EXHIBITION IN FIVE PARTS
Date: February 5, 2022 - April 10, 2022
Where: Level 4 Main Art Gallery
The Loss of the Ocean Ranger
Date: February 8, 2022- June 19, 2022
Where: Outside Level 4 Entrance to the Museum
Couzyn van Heuvelen: Avataq / ᐊᕙᑕᖅ
Date: February 22-June 5, 2022
Where: Level 3 Harbour, Art Gallery
Helping Hands: 30 Years at Kinngait Studios / ᐃᑲᔪᖅᑏᑦ: ᐅᑭᐅᓂᒃ 30−ᓂᒃ ᑭᙵᓂᑦ ᓴᓇᕝᕕᖕᒥᑦ
Date: February 19, 2022 - June 5, 2022
Where: Level 3 Main Art Gallery
Arts & Letters
Date: April 23 - May 15, 2022
Where: Level 4 Main Art Gallery
One in Five
Date: May 3 to July 24, 2022
Where: Level 2.5 Vitrines
Sarah Wendt + Pascal Dufaux: The Mountain Moves While My Fingernails Grow
Date: June 4, 2022 - September 11, 2022
Where: Level 4 Main Art Gallery
Tara Bryan: Unfolding Horizon
Date: June 25 – October 2, 2022
Where: Level 3 Harbour Gallery, Art Gallery
At Home: Too Far, Too Close
Date: June 29, 2022 - June 18, 2023
Where: Level 2 Atrium
30 YEARS ON – THE COD COLLAPSE
Date: June 30, 2022 - June 4, 2023
Where: Level 4 Museum Entrance
Generations: The Sobey Family and Canadian Art
Date: June 25, 2022 - January 15, 2023
Where: Level 3 Main Art Gallery
Don Wright: Gathering Tides
Date: July 25, 2022 to January 22, 2023
Where: Level 2.5 Vitrines
Tangible: Crafting the Future on the 50th Anniversary of the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador
Date: September 30, 2022 - January 2, 2023
Where: Level 4 Main Art Gallery
Kelsey Street: Weaving Back & Forth
Date: October 15, 2022 – January 22, 2023
Where: Level 3 Harbour Art Gallery
The House of Wooden Santas
Date: November 22, 2023 – January 7, 2024
Where: Level 3 Entrance to the Reference Room
Nelson White: Tukien (Awaken)
Date: January 14, 2023 – April 4, 2023
Where: Level 4 Main Art Gallery
Chun Hua Catherine Dong: At the Edge of Two Worlds
Date: February 11, 2023 – April 25, 2023
Where: Level 3 Natural Light Art Gallery
Let’s Connect Tomorrow
Date: February 11 - May 28, 2023
Where: Level 3 Main Art Gallery
Alex Antle: Njiknam (My Younger Brother)
Date: February 21 - August 14, 2023
Where: Level 2.5 Vitrines
Reviving Mi’kmaw Art
Date: March 10-21, 2023
Where: Level 3 Entrance to the Reference Room
Arts & Letters
Date: April 15 - May 8, 2023
Where: Level 4 Main Art Gallery
ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᔪᒻᒪᕆᒃ Double Vision: Jessie Oonark, Janet Kigusiuq, Victoria Mamnguqsualuk
Date: June 16 – November 19, 2023
Where: Level 3 Main Art Gallery
Jerry Evans: Weljesi
Date: May 27, 2023 – December 30, 2023
Where: Level 4 Main Art Gallery
Nicholas Aiden: Otherside
Date: June 16 – September 18, 2023
Where: Level 3 Art Gallery
Glenn Gear: Ivaluk Ullugiallu | Sinew & Stars
Date: July 5, 2023 - January 21, 2024
Where: Level 3 Harbour Art Gallery
Tying the Knot: Weddings in Newfoundland and Labrador
Date: July 2023 - October 2023
Where: Level 3 - Archives Entrance
Lighting the Way: Newfoundland and Labrador Lighthouses
Date: August 21, 2023
Where: Level 4 Museum Entrance
Making Home Here
Date: September 23, 2023 – January 16, 2024
Where: Level 3 High Security Gallery
Kim Morgan: Blood and Breath, Skin and Dust
Date: December 9, 2023 - April 28, 2024
Where: Level 3 Main Art Gallery
50 Years of the Sports Hall of Fame
Date: October 13 – November 19, 2023
Where: Level 3 – Archives Entrance
Out of the Vault: Creepy Collections
Date: October 18th – October 31st, 2023
Where: Level 3
Daze Jefferies: Stay Here Stay How Stay
Date: January 20 - April 7, 2024
Where: Level 4 Main Art Gallery
Sheilagh O’Leary: A Sea Change
Date: February 10 - April 28, 2024
Where: Level 3 Art Gallery
Jenny Yujia Shi: The End of a Line
Date: February 10 - April 28, 2024
Where: Level 3 Harbour Gallery
Arts & Letters
Date: April 20 - May 18, 2024
Where: Level 4 Main Art Gallery
BURNOUT: HOT 4 THE MOMENT (GEORGIA DAWKIN AND DREW PARDY)
Date: May - September, 2024
Where: Level 3 Art Gallery
Gather: A Year of the Arts Exhibition
Date: May 18 - September 22, 2024
Where: Level 3 Main Art Gallery
Max Streicher: AltoCumulus
Date: June 1 - September 2, 2024
Where: Level 4 Main Art Gallery