Experience southern Canada's only public museum devoted exclusively to one of Canada's most celebrated artistic achievements: Inuit art. Beautifully situated at Toronto's Harbourfront in the award-winning Queen's Quay Terminal Building.

The Museum presents a comprehensive, multi-layered display of Inuit Art that includes, prehistoric art, early post-contact art, and early works of the modernist period; important themes; regional styles; contemporary art; and masterworks. It also integrates rotating exhibitions featuring individual artists,communities, themes and materials.

Curatorial Philosophy:
The museum aims to provide a permanent integrated framework showing the artistic history of Canada’s Inuit, presenting the cultural and thematic foundations of their art, highlighting the regional diversity and various media of artistic expression, and celebrating the achievements of individual artists. Within, this overall framework, MIA aims to present Inuit art in a varied, changing and stimulating context that includes and is sensitive to the Inuit perspective.