Mendel Art Gallery, Art museum in City Park, Saskatoon, Canada.
Mendel Art Gallery is an art museum in City Park, Saskatoon, housing around 7500 works including paintings by Canadian artists and contemporary international pieces. The collection spans both established and emerging works across different styles and periods.
The museum was founded in 1964 by Frederick Mendel, a refugee from Nazi Germany, with crucial support from Saskatchewan province. This establishment marked an important moment for art advancement in the region.
The gallery presents works by Saskatchewan artists alongside established Canadian figures, offering insight into regional creative practice. These exhibitions connect what visitors see from local creators to broader artistic movements across the country.
The gallery closed on 7 June 2015, so there is no art collection to visit; the modernist building in City Park now houses the Nutrien Wonderhub children's museum, which opened there in June 2019. The Civic Conservatory, built in the same 1964 project, stands beside it.
The Civic Conservatory was added to the gallery project at the suggestion of mayor S. L. Buckwold, so the 1964 building housed both art and plants. The gallery closed in June 2015, and since June 2019 the former exhibition space has been occupied by the Nutrien Wonderhub children's museum.
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