Originally Posted by
redrockcoulee
Our constitution was re-written in 1982 so most of the founders are still with us and the Constitution Act was written long after the establishment of many of the galleries. It is a tradition for governments at all levels in this country to fund public institutions such as galleries, museums, libraries, hockey or curling rinks etc.
I hope this is not construed as a political statement but there is more than one way to construct a society. Private museums are a rarity and for an example one of the largest I had seen was the Reynolds Museum in Westaskiwin but when it became to big for the Reynolds family to operate the PC government bought it and it became another provincial museum. I think it is the largest collection of farm equipment but this is getting off track.
The portrait gallery that was proposed had many cities bidding on it and I think that Calgary was one of those cities. Hope that it is true that the photographs are going to an existing gallery.
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