National Gallery of Canada Reviews

Wow! What a fantastic place even with the Canadian section closed. If I lived in Ottawa, I'd become a member without question!

The National Gallery is always worth a visit when visiting Ottawa if you appreciate artistic interpretion in all forms from traditional to the very best in contemporary styles. It is easy to spend a day here without being conscious of the passage of time. The Gallery also offers a very good restaurant as well as an excellent gift shop to make your visit complete. If you appreciate innovative architectural design and interpretation, you will not be disappointed in this unique architectural gem when visiting our nation's capital.

Staff was friendly and it was very clean and spacious.

Maybe my favorite touristy place in Ottawa. The building is grand, the art is varied, great, and well-presented. A very worthy national art gallery.

Always a favourite stop-great place to relax and learn something new

Stopped by when I went to Canada for a business trip. Very nice building with the famous spider at the front. The interior was also nice. A lot of artwork that a day is not enough to take a look of all that. Balanced btw classic and modern pieces. staffs were nice. Fairly quiet and and small number of people for the size of the museum.

One of the best spots in ottawa. There is hidden treasures that will speak to everyone here. The art is endless.

A great place to get art merchandise, and see beautiful paintings and naked people.

Beautiful Architecture. Art to compete with the world. Van Gogh, Monet, the Group of Seven & Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, Canadian Inuit & First Nations & European Art. Must see Destination.

Parking is located in the Gallery with the entrance on Sussex Drive. They do have a number of EV stations located near the Parking Ticket Machines. Very limited so it is on a first cone first serve basis. They are on both levels.

A Membership is worth it. If you are like me & want to be surrounded by Art on a daily basis, get one. Especially for the travelling Show. It is always worth the Trip to OTTAWA.

Nice place, a bit confusing to navigate around in starting but worth every penny.

Beautiful art and space. Has works by amazing artists such as Picasso, Van Gogh and Klimt

We're from Kingston, Ontario and don't feel we've received full benefits from our federal taxes unless we've made at least one annual visit to Ottawa. And at the top of our list of places to visit is the National Gallery of Canada.

The Gallery is always so spectacular to see resting on its own plaza and so near to the Parliament buildings. The architecture is beautiful with all the vertical sections of stone and glass.

Once inside, you climb a long tall ramp to large circular space. The ceiling is so far above you that you feel like ant when you sit down. Through all the glass, you see the Parliament buildings again but also with great views of the Ottawa River and the City. It's a wonderful place to have lunch on occasions when it being served. If not, there is a spacious cafeteria which also has great views as well as more selection.

From there, you walk down a long tall hallway and then enter the galleries and the current exhibitions. On our most recent visit, we were thrilled to see some of the most recognizable work Group of Seven.

Canadian, English, French and American art. Just fantastic

Amazing art, it can take a couple of hours to go through the whole collection, absolutely worth it though. I didn't know they had some of Claude Monet's paintings so it was a nice surprise for me (spoiler alert sorry)

Many exhibit areas to walk around, very clean. Rooms were hard to distinguish between each other, felt lost in the gallery at times.

The museum is fantastic. I like the building and the work "mom" Louise Bourgeois outside.

The Canadian and Indigenous arts displays are a sight to behold. You need a full day to fully appreciate each work of art.

Conviniant place with great selection of gifts to enhance your experience

This museum is must visit. Few paintings are really awesome.

The National Gallery of Canada architecture is a piece of art itself, well worth a visit even if you are not one of the art gallery visiting types. That said, the art on display in the gallery is a great collection of Canadian art - ranging from native American art to to modern movers and shakers, providing the visitor with a view into the art history and the art scene of Canada.At the time of my visit, the exhibition Anthroposcene was on display. The amazing exhibition is likely to color my review in an even more positive way.

Beautiful the place. My favorite museum of the visotados in Ottawa. "Mom" at the entrance and the building of a great architecture.

Visit and see some of the most incredible art from across Canada and the world.

One of my favourite museums in the world. The Canadian Contemporary exhibit is stunning.

various styles of master pieces from different times and regions

Not bad if you like art, pretty boring if you don't.

Top of the line. We were approached bye but seemed like a volunteer who spent 10 minutes or more with us explaining the history of a particular artist whose paintings were being exhibited. Unexpected and enjoyable. Very well maintained and arranged gallery. We also enjoyed the gift shop.

BEST ART GALLERY IVE EVER BEEN TO! THE ANTHROPOCENE EXHIBIT IS SO WORTH IT

Decent collection of European art. Section of Canadian art is unique and interesting. Outside has a great view of the canals.

The staff was exceptional. The exhibits were well worth the trip to Ottawa.

Incredible building. Beautiful exhibitions. Amazing Architecture

Amazing thr National Galery inaugurated in 1988, it has a section for indigenous, canadians, americans and part dedicated to Europe.
The price of the ticket is 15$ and 20$ for the permanent collection
They have guided tour, you can check this at ticket box. They are open till 5pm and closed on Mondays
I liked a lot, I would recommend if you are in Ottawa and I will be back, it worth it.

Extensive collections of Canadian, Indigenous, Contemporary, European, American, and Asian art. I was impressed to see art from famous artists like Dali, Klimt, Monet, Van Gogh, Magritte, the Group of Seven, etc. I ended up spending 3.5 hours here since there is so much to see.

I was quite disappointed, security guards in everyroom, they were bored wanted to talk and kept eyeing everyone down. Felt weird. Art was nothing to mock at, semi large collection but yet AGO has more. Overall id say it could be skipped and you wouldnt miss anything.

The National Art Gallery is hosting a special exhibit on impressionism. The exhibit is tastefully displayed, with a variety of paintings representative of impressionism. The Gallery has a cafe that is a nice spot to stop and grab a drink/snack while sitting tables viewing the Parliament Buildings.

Large space for large collection of works. Beautiful architecture and beautiful view.
Attentive and efficient service at the box office, but unprofessional in the luggage room.

The architecture of this place alone is worth a visit, but their collection is great! As someone who is relatively knowledgable of art, I appreciate their curated collection.
great location for a date, family excursion, friendly outing or field trip. As I've heard, they host several weddings in the Great Hall.

Amazing get rid of the flourescent tubes on boxes and show the rest of your proper art.

This grand art gallery houses an impressive collection of significant Canadian art as well as some great old world European master works. Paid parking is located underneath the building via a nearly invisible entrance off Sussex.

It's an art gallery. There was a lot of great art to be seen especially the Renaissance collection, however, objectively, the quality and breadth of the art left me wanting. Understandably it can't have a collection as interesting as other similarly sized galleries that have had more time to collect. All the same, some of the art was very uniquely Canadian, definitely worth seeing.

The gallery itself is beautiful and the architecture is magnificent.

Love the building and the layout of different sections.

Brought the kids for awesome artissimo programming. Fun for all ages, we even participated!

It s combination of classic and modern arts including unique aboriginal s tools and clothes.

The Impressionist exhibit featured the collection of a Danish family (bequeathed to Denmark) which comprises works by French and Danish Impressionists. Creative presentation in that one exhibit is in the family's salon. Enjoyed seeing works by several Impressionists, well-presented.

Very hard to rate. Art is extremely personal. But, I have admit that certain pieces, in my opinion, did not deserve to be in a museum.

A well managed Gallery with European, American and Indigenous art collection.

Home of many of the country's national art treasures.

great variety of different art from 1300s to present!

Nice place and beautiful exhibitions. Underground parking

Seeing as how a large part of the museum is closed for renovations looking ahead to 2017, paying full price for admission plus an extra fee to see the special exhibit didn't seem quite fair. The museum is beautiful and nicely air conditioned, but do be aware that a large portion of the museum is not open due to the renovations taking place for Canada's 150th birthday.

Great even for kids. They have a scavenger hunt for them. Find a picture with a small bird kinda thing. Kids get really into looking at the art

Way bigger than expected! World class museum. Reminds me of London, with less people

Enjoying the 20017 Ottawa International Animation Festival

View the Paul Gauguin portraits exhibit. Very well curated.

Went to see the Han Ran exhibit of Japanese photography. The presentation was very good and we found the selection of photographs very interesting. However, in a few places it seemed that the English descriptions were not correctly translated. For example "Emperor Showa" is incorrect - there was no emperor by this name. "The Showa Emperor" (i.e. the emperor of the Showa period) would be correct.

Excellent selection of European and contemporary art. Beautifully organized space, and the tapas are also great!

This is one of my favorites place to visit time to time. This place required several days to discover just current presentation.

Some of the exhibits are not my thing, but that's art. And I will always support it all including the art that "Isn't my thing" to hopefully always having it there for everyone!

Worth the visit!! AND they take American Express!