On 30 September 1869, Bruges city theatre opened its doors with ‘Les Mousquetaires de la Reine’ (The Queen’s Musketeers), a comic opera. Over the last 150 years, a lot has changed in and around the building. This exhibition tells a story of urban design, architecture and theatre programming.

Montrealer Sir William Cornelius Van Horne was passionate about Japanese ceramics. His impressive collection is here presented and studied thought 320 objects now housed at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Royal Ontario Museum and private collections, altogether with a range of archival materials and his documentation of individual pieces in watercolours.

This exhibition presents a hundred artworks drawn from an extraordinary collection of Canadian philanthropist Bruce Bailey, encouraging visitors to consider how art can reflect a unique sensibility and simultaneously unearth shared commonalities, inviting us to better understand difference.

Marking just over a century since David Bomberg’s (1890–1957) first solo show at the onset of war in 1914, in another first, this exhibition displays some of his earliest paintings alongside the works that inspired him.

Global Conversations: Art in Dialogue features dozens of contemporary works of art, many from the Museum’s permanent collection and many newly acquired, that encompass a broad range of media and geographic regions. These works will offer visitors the chance to discover the many powerful ways that artists are engaging with issues of urgency facing the world today.