Beaverbrook Art Gallery
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery (French: Musée des beaux-arts Beaverbrook) is a public art gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is named after William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, who funded the building of the gallery and assembled the original collection. It opened in 1959 with over 300 works, including paintings by J. M. W. Turner and Salvador Dalí. The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is New Brunswick's officially designated provincial art gallery.
Musée des beaux-arts Beaverbrook | |
Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 2014. | |
| Established | 1959 |
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| Location | 703 Queen Street Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Type | Art museum |
| Collection size | 6,000 works (2018) |
| Visitors | 38,960 (2018) |
| Founder | William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook |
| Director | Tom Smart |
| Public transit access | 16N Marysville (Fredericton Transit) |
| Nearest car park | Queen Street, East End Parking Garage |
| Website | beaverbrookartgallery.org |
The building has undergone several expansions, the latest of which opened in 2017 via a design by Halifax-based MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. Former director Terry Graff stated that this "expansion and revitalization" aimed to make the gallery "an important destination for national and international contemporary art".