Art Gallery of Ontario

[Johann]

I have a City of Toronto Museum and Arts Pass for this year, and I spent today (10am-1pm) at the Art Gallery of Ontario, one of North America's leading art museums.
From the write-up:
Opened to the public on Nov. 14, 2008, it was designed by the internationally celebrated architect Frank Gehry and proudly displays 34,000 works of art from around the world in breathtaking galleries.

I was overjoyed to discover a painter who I'd never heard of and marvelled at his original works, with astounding colors and attention to detail:
William Holman Hunt (1827-1910).
He was a bohemian who painted startlingly modern works, with an emphasis on the psychologically intense.
I could've stared at that guy's paintings all day.
Just awesome artworks man.

The galleries in the lower levels housed the greatest collection of scale model boats/ships/warships. Simply stunning miniatures (and some not so miniatures) of British, German, Japanese (and other countries) boats. The detail on these things is staggering. You know that whoever built them spent countless hours diligently putting them together.

www.ago.net