The National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives supports research by Gallery staff and Research Fellows, and serves as Canada’s national research collection in the visual arts. Collections are international in scope, encompassing all aspects of Canadian art and related developments with European and North American traditions.
Special subject collections:
- all aspects of Canadian art
- history of post-Medieval western European and American art
- history of photography
- European and North American graphic arts
- art conservation
- silver
- Art Metropole collection
Searchable holdings (9/2012):
246,000 books, exhibition catalogues and bound periodicals, 900 current periodical subscriptions, 54,000 auction catalogues, 95,000 microforms, 76,000 documentation files, 362,000 study photographs, 203,000 slides and 1000 linear meters of institutional archives and private papers.
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