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Toronto Public Library
October 6, 2026
Is this the time for Canada to create a National Portrait Gallery?

Join four leading voices at the Toronto Reference Library to imagine what could be one of Canada’s most significant cultural institutions yet to be built. Canadians are experiencing a renewed sense of who we are and why it matters to be us – is now the time to respond to decades of demand for a National Portrait Gallery?

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Toronto Public Library
November 20, 2026
Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence: Novel and Museum

Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk speaks about the creation of Istanbul's Museum of Innocence.

Renowned Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk joins celebrated museum and cultural planning leader, Gail Lord, for an extraordinary conversation about one of the most singular acts of imagination in contemporary literature and museology: the creation of Istanbul's Museum of Innocence.

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