Bruce Contemporaries Family Gallery Tour

On Sunday, December 12, several Bruce Contemporaries and their families visited the Bruce Museum for a private tour of the two new exhibitions, The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature and RESOLUTE: Native Nations Art in the Bruce Collection led by Megan Brown, Manager of Youth and Family Programs. Following the tour, Megan engaged the children in fun arts and crafts activities, including drawing a dollhouse room, inspired by The Fisher Dollhouse exhibition, and decorating a paper vest and weaving a basket, inspired by the RESOLUTE exhibition. After the tour and activities, the families also toured the new Science Galleries.

About the exhibitions

The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature features a magnificent diorama of ten rooms filled with an eclectic range of historical and contemporary craft, art, and design rendered in miniature. The Fisher Dollhouse was created within the confines of the COVID-19 pandemic and was inspired by Venice’s glamourous Gritti Palace and memories of a world once on the move. The dollhouse provided a haven for its creator and, during the months of quarantine, an escape. Like other crafts, its making offered a form of therapy: an activity to occupy the mind and hands as a means of coping with anxiety and immobility.

RESOLUTE: Native Nations Art in the Bruce Collection showcases an array of significant objects and illustrates a new perspective on Native Nations as historical and contemporary societies, while providing new information about the people who built the collection, and introduces now-known artists whose works have been silent for decades.