Government of Ontario Art Collection: The Toronto Normal School, [ca. 1900]

[The Toronto Normal School, [ca. 1900]]

The Toronto Normal School, [ca. 1900]
Photographer Unknown
Reference Code: RG 15-90-0-0-32
Archives of Ontario, I0002098

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Within the school, Ryerson established a museum containing natural history specimens, geological samples and sundry items of interest to educators and the public. However, in trips to Europe undertaken by Ryerson between 1855 and 1856, his focus changed and he began to collect items of aesthetic value. These paintings, plaster busts, copies of old masters, or "objects of taste" as Ryerson was to refer to them, would form the nucleus of today's provincial art collection.