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Next year, it will be 100 years since businessman Sir Edmund Walker and artist George Reid decided that Toronto needed a museum of art. Torontonians are grateful they did. Although the Art Gallery of Ontario—called the AGO by locals—is not one of the best-known landmarks in the world, it is one of the best known, and loved, in Canada. It’s also the eighth largest art museum in North America.

The AGO’s collection has more than 24,000 works representing 1,000 years of European, Canadian, Inuit, modern and contemporary art, both inside the building and out. Outside, at the northeast corner of the gallery, there’s a giant Henry Moore sculpture that is often crawling with children playing hide-and-seek. Inside, you will find more of Moore’s creations, 20th century Canadian works by the Group of Seven, and world-renowned travelling shows, such as the recent Michelangelo to Picasso collection from the Albertina in Vienna. You can purchase reproductions of most of these works, and others, in the gallery’s massive, meandering store.