Toronto's Gardiner Museum, devoted to ceramics, reopens after $11m renovation

"To see it take shape has been magical."

"Clay embodies what it means to be human, grounding and connecting us to the earth and to each other."

"There's a lot of excitement around the reopening, certainly within our own team but also in the wider ceramics community and the city of Toronto, where the Gardiner is a beloved cultural gem and creative hub,"

"People will be blown away by how dynamic the space is. Inaugurating a gallery of Indigenous ceramics was central to the project from the beginning. It felt important to clearly ground our work in this region and to deepen and expand relationships with Indigenous artists and communities."

The Gardiner Museum, focused on ceramic art since 1984, reopened on 6 November following a 15-month, C$15.5m ground-floor renovation. A C$9m gift from the Radlett Foundation provided major support for the project. The renovated ground floor includes a new gallery devoted to Indigenous ceramics and expanded exhibition and public space. The upstairs galleries host Linda Rotua Sormin’s Uncertain Ground until 12 April 2026, Sormin’s first solo museum show featuring around two decades of work inspired by Batak mythology. The exhibition includes sculpture, video, sound, hand-cut watercolour painting, digital fabrication, and materials from the museum’s reconstruction.

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