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You can visit Toronto's best contemporary art museum for free every month

The beauty of living in Toronto is that it grants you multiple opportunities to visit its major art galleries for the low, low price of FREE. 

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto offers free admission on Fridays at 5-9 p.m. and on the first Sunday of every month. 

You can spend an evening at the art exhibitions like Remediation by Kapwani Kiwanga, or an outdoor augmented reality experince Seeing the Invisible.

Until the end of April, MOCA has Susan For Susan's piece Trade Show and Athena Papadopoulsos' The New Alphabet.

One fascinating and immersive installation is ni4ni (v.3) by Serkin Özkaya, which uses reflections to turn a human-sized sphere into an eyeball, and projections to to the same on the entire surrounding walls. 

Visit MOCA.ca to book your tickets in advance. 

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) also offers select free evenings to its collections. Every Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. you can visit for free.

AGO's current exhibition Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows is on now and only until Apr. 10.

Until June 11, you can view the collection You Look Beautiful Like That: Studio Photography in West and Central Africa.  

General admission tickets are released on Mondays at 10 a.m. for only the following Wednesday night. You need a valid email address to book up to four tickets for the select evening. Get your free AGO tickets on their website

Lead photo by

Fareen Karim


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