Facilities

The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba’s multipurpose 22,000 sqft facilities sit at the heart of Downtown Brandon, and features one of the largest darkrooms for traditional photo processing in Canada, fully outfitted studios for ceramics, drawing, painting, printmaking, and new media, and a Gift Shop stocked with works by Manitoba’s finest artisans. The 4,300 sqft Main Gallery is environmentally controlled, fully equipped, and capable of handling contemporary work from new media to painting. It offers contemporary art exhibitions of regional, national, and international significance with an emphasis on Manitoban and Indigenous art. The Community Gallery, with 220 running feet of wall space, provides exhibition opportunities for emerging and local artists and community groups and presents exhibitions of particular interest and relevance to the various communities within and surrounding the AGSM. An 810 sqft. vault houses the Manitoba Arts Council’s Art Bank collection.