Image: Rosalie Sharp Gallery, Gardiner Museum, Toronto. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid
The Gardiner Museum in Toronto is presenting more than 500 blue-and-white ceramics in its new Rosalie Sharp Gallery, according to a museum announcement dated August 27, 2026. The collection presentation is being promoted as a late-summer visit, with the museum suggesting that visitors come early or late in the day to experience the gallery in August light.
The gallery is part of the Gardiner Museum, which is located at 111 Queen’s Park in Toronto and presents permanent galleries, special exhibitions and programmes focused on ceramics. The museum’s current membership information refers to access to its special exhibitions and permanent galleries, including a transformed ground floor, although the supplied announcement does not provide further details about the gallery’s design or installation.
The collection is identified as the Rosalie Wise Sharp Collection of Blue and White on the museum webpage linked from the announcement, while the newsletter refers to the new Rosalie Sharp Gallery. The available material describes the holdings only by their blue-and-white palette and ceramic medium; it does not specify the objects’ dates, places of origin, makers or acquisition history.
The presentation is being publicized alongside the museum’s fall programme, but no opening date, closing date or separate event schedule is given for the gallery. The announcement also does not state whether the presentation is temporary or permanent. It directs visitors to the Gardiner Museum for additional information.
The same museum communication lists other activities, including an eight-week wheel-throwing and decorating class for teenagers, clay mindfulness courses, and the final weeks of ‘Highways of Harlan House’. Those programmes are separate from the Rosalie Sharp Gallery presentation. The museum’s announcement gives no further exhibition details beyond the collection’s scale, its blue-and-white focus and its location within the new gallery.
