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The National Gallery of Canada ((フランス語:Musée des beaux-arts du Canada)), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.〔(The Canadian Encyclopedia )〕 The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The building was designed by Moshe Safdie and opened in 1988.〔(National Gallery of Canada - 1980 )〕 The Gallery's former director Jean Sutherland Boggs was chosen especially by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to oversee construction of the national gallery and museums.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Concordia university to award five honorary degrees at five ceremonies for 3300 graduating students )〕 Marc Mayer was named the museum's director, succeeding , on 19 January 2009.〔("Mayer confirmed as gallery director" ), ''The Globe and Mail'', 8 December 2008.〕 ==History== The Gallery was first formed in 1880 by Canada's Governor General John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, and, in 1882, moved into its first home on Parliament Hill in the same building as the Supreme Court.〔 In 1911, the Gallery moved to the Victoria Memorial Museum, now the home of the Canadian Museum of Nature. In 1913, the first National Gallery Act was passed outlining the Gallery's mandate and resources.〔 In 1962, the Gallery moved to the Lorne Building site, a rather nondescript office building on Elgin Street. Adjacent to the British High Commission, the building has since been demolished for a 17 storey office building that is to house the Federal Finance Department. The museum moved into its current building on Sussex Drive in 1988, beside Nepean Point. In 1985, the newly created Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP), formerly the Stills Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada, was affiliated to the National Gallery. The CMCP's mandate, collection and staff moved to its new location in 1992, at 1 Rideau Canal, next to the Château Laurier. In 1998, the CMCP's administration was amalgamated to that of the National Gallery's. In 2000, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada chose the National Gallery as one of the top 500 buildings produced in Canada during the last millennium. == Directors == * Eric Brown 1912-1939 * Harry Orr McCurry 1939-1955 * Alan Jarvis 1955-1959 * Charles Fraser Comfort 1960-65 * Jean Sutherland Boggs 1966-1976 * Hsio-Yen Shih 1976-1981 * Joseph Martin 1981-1987 * Shirley Thomson 1987-1997 * Pierre Théberge 1998-2008 * Marc Mayer 2009- 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Gallery of Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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