Mackenzie Art Gallery

The MacKenzie Art Gallery (MAG; French : Musee d’art MacKenzie ) is an art museum located in Regina, Saskatchewan , Canada . The museum occupies the multipurpose T. C. Douglas Building, situated at the edge of the Wascana Centre . The building holds eight galleries totaling to 2,200 square metres (24,000 sq ft) of exhibition space. The museum originates from a private collection donated to Regina College (later the University of Regina ) from Norman MacKenzie. In 1953, the college established the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery in order to exhibit works from that collection. In 1990, the art museum was incorporated as an independent institution from the university, and moved into the T. C. Douglas Building at the southwestern edge of Wascana Centre. The MacKenzie Art Gallery's permanent collection has over 5,000 works spanning over 5,000 years of Canadian history . In addition to exhibiting works from its collection, the museum has also organized, and hosted a number of travelling arts exhibitions .