Go to 401 Riverside Drive West to visit The Art Gallery of Windsor where you’ll see a large, diverse collection of Canadian art by local, regional, and national artists. The AGW is a valuable cultural center for the Windsor area, and provides the special service of showcasing Canadian art in a city that has the busiest border crossing between Canada and the United States.

The Art Gallery of Windsor began in 1943 in Willistead Manor, where exhibitions borrowed from other galleries and organizations could be displayed. A year later the Gallery soon began building its own collection and presenting exhibitions and education programs.

The AGW moved into a renovated brewery warehouse on the riverfront in 1975. The Gallery temporarily relocated to the Devonshire Mall in 1993, when its Board of Directors made the decision to rent its riverfront location to the Province of Ontario. Bringing the Gallery into the mall moved art a little closer to the world that inspires it.

In shopper's paradise the Gallery offers one of those few things in life you do not need to purchase in order to possess. In 2001, the AGW returned to its former downtown waterfront site by way of a new state-of-the-art facility. The Gallery's collection is made up of over 3000 works of art, including:

• Paintings
• Drawings
• Prints
• Photographs
• Sculptures
• Illustrations
• Videos

All works cover the period from about 1750 through to the present day. The collection is particularly strong in late 19th-century Canadian painting and in works of early 20th-century Canadian modernism.