130 9 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P3
CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS
The museum is currently closed for major renovations. Reopening in 2026.
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.
Dec 22, 2024
Oct 3, 2024
New salon gallery will be named in their honour
Sep 5, 2024
Dec 12, 2023
The Glenbow has created a new role for Jocelyn Anderson as director of the JR Shaw Institute for Art in Canada, the Calgary museum announced Tuesday.
Apr 25, 2023
Calgary's Glenbow says it will be the first major Canadian museum to offer free general admission forever.
Feb 17, 2022
The Glenbow Museum will open a temporary satellite exhibition space in downtown Calgary in March.
Jan 5, 2022
Amber Shilling has joined the Glenbow Museum in Calgary as director of Indigenous engagement and reconciliation, a newly created role.
Dec 8, 2021
The Glenbow in Calgary is closing for three years at the end of August to redesign its 1970s-era building.
Aug 5, 2021
A crowd-pleasing show – complete with gaily painted cats, flowers and oxen – wends its way to Calgary.
Jun 14, 2021
Haema Sivanesan joins the Glenbow in Calgary as chief curator after a year-long international search.
May 3, 2021
Apr 27, 2021
Calgary's Glenbow Museum has published details about its ongoing renovation with the goal of creating "a building that gives you a thrill."
Feb 26, 2021
Calgary's Glenbow Museum closes temporarily after staff member tests positive for COVID-19.
Oct 30, 2020
Calgary's Glenbow Museum is moving forward with the first phase of renovations, closing its third and fourth floors to the public as of Nov. 22.
Oct 26, 2020
Social paintings demonstrate wit and wonderful paint handling.
Sep 6, 2020
Calgary's Glenbow Museum is ready to begin $115-million renovations in October.
Aug 24, 2020
The Glenbow Museum in Calgary has permanently laid off 27 staff members prior to its reopening next month as part of a restructuring prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Jul 23, 2020
The Glenbow wants your stories about life in Alberta during the coronavirus pandemic.
May 21, 2020
Eighty per cent of the Calgary museum's staff being laid off in response to corona virus.
Mar 25, 2020
Images rescued by chance from obscurity are now in demand around the world.
Mar 8, 2020
The Alberta government is spending $40 million in infrastructure funding on the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.
Feb 21, 2020
Calgary's Glenbow Museum has hired Kim Kadatz as vice-president of advancement, effective March 2.
Jan 29, 2020
Suspiciously like readymades, these exquisitely crafted paintings hide in plain sight.
Aug 24, 2019
Nicholas R. Bell is the new president and CEO of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.
Aug 20, 2019
Shimmering and lithe, sculpted with readymades and tchotchkes, Nick Cave’s performative art embodies otherness.
Jul 12, 2019
The Glenbow says it will continue to offer free entry on the first Thursday evening of the month through 2019.
Dec 13, 2018
The Glenbow weaves complex stories as it explores real and imagined views of the North from the 19th century.
Dec 2, 2018
Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal explores the role of the Jingle Dress dance in Indigenous healing.
Nov 19, 2018
The Glenbow has appointed Sarah Todd as its art curator.
Sep 14, 2018
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
Calgary-based artist Gwenessa Lam’s powerful new work considers how digital technologies are shifting our perceptions of truth and reality.
Jul 12, 2018
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
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
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
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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 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
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
An exhibition that explores Canada's love affair with the canoe through art is on view at the Glenbow.
Jul 28, 2017
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)" the first of three-part exhibition series on at Glenbow until May 22, 2017.
Mar 26, 2017
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A recent exhibition that brought five historic Blackfoot artifacts back to Alberta has won a prize from the American Anthropology Association.
Dec 31, 2011
Through June 19, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary flips the idea of portraiture on its head.
Apr 30, 2011
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
From September 26 to November 16, Glenbow Museum president Jeff Spalding curates a whimsical tour through dream spaces and reversals.
Aug 31, 2008
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