Transcending HOME

On my third day here, we opened a new exhibition the team had been working on, "At Home in Toronto." It's on now at The Market Gallery, 95 Front Street, 2nd Floor of St. Lawrence Market. So many memories and so many community members! This exhibition begins a concerted effort to reverse the concept of a museum from collector repository to collaborating consultant. 

'At Home in Toronto' provides space within the City for the community to share treasures, stories, languages and culture... to build our collective knowledge base around identifying, protecting, preserving and managing art and artifacts as well as intangible heritage, both with and outside of traditional museum settings. 

The vast majority of the material culture held within the City of Toronto is not in our million artifact collection but rather in the homes, hearts and hearths of residents, families and non-museum cultural and community groups. 

How we identify, exchange and work with these sacred and secular items, be they concepts, dances, songs, stories, memory sticks, scrapbooks or silver, is defined within and between each family, group or individual. We respect each other's choices about how much, when or whether to share. 

We are still in the process of becoming, individually, and together, and in the process, learning about what respect and relative mean. 

If you're here with us, swing by and chat, we'd love to hear more about how you create 'Home.' 

We'll be waiting for you. 

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