What's New

There is always something new happening at CyberMuse!

Rideau Chapel
The Rideau Chapel is an important treasure in that it embodies both historical and architectural significance in Canada. CyberMuse introduces a new website that uncovers the origins of the Chapel through a timeline supported by historical photographs, a biography of the career of priest-architect Georges Bouillon and facts about the restoration and reconstruction process. Also featuring detailed 3D renderings by students from Carleton University who were participants in the Digital Architectural Reconstruction Program. Each component of the website brings a deeper understanding of the Rideau Chapel, an educational vehicle for all audiences.

Interactive Floor Plan
This innovative online program enables users to navigate throughout the Gallery's various exhibition spaces. Cyber-visitors can "enter" a specific gallery such as "Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven" and view the works exhibited. For those who are looking for works of art by an artist whose name escapes them, the artist index will point them in the right direction.
People planning to visit the Gallery on-site can create customized tours by theme or select from a list of Gallery prepared ready-made tours -"An Artist's Bouquet" for example - or simply choose to explore a particular gallery space. They can both print their tour map (personalized or standard version) to take to the Gallery and e-mail it to a friend.

Lisette Model
Explore an in-depth look at the life and career of Lisette Model, photographer and teacher. Highlights include a chronology with excerpts from audio interviews with Model (audio available for download), photographs, letters, and shown for the first time her 1950's Jazz series with more than 1500 images.

Decoding Art
Decoding Art introduces users to the different ways artists have used subjects and symbols to create meaning in their work. These symbols may be objects in the painting or may be represented by the formal elements such as colour, line, texture, composition, and space. Decoding Art has three main sections: The Decoding Quiz, the Artwork Comparisons and the Teachers Resources, which are all printable in PDF format.

Introducing a new feature on CyberMuse for our visually impaired visitors
CyberMuse is now providing an automatic text-only version of its website for our visually impaired visitors who use text to speech systems or screen readers for web browsing. By simply clicking on the "Text Only" link from the top navigation menu within CyberMuse, visitors have access to the text-only version of that same page and can also customize the background color, the text color and, the font face and font size.

Thanks to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) model we are now able to offer this great service to all of our visitors. For more information on the BBC model, please visit this link.

Graphic Version

Text Version

What's Near Me
Curious to find out what exhibitions are featured in your area and at galleries across Canada? Just click on one of the pushpins to view gallery locations and highlights of artworks.

M.C.Escher Lesson Plan
This lesson plan introduces some M.C. Escher's preferred themes through ten prints from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Meet the Artist
Hear what artists have to say about their work and role of contemporary art in today's world. You will gain personal insights into why artists create, their choice of materials, the major influences on their work, and the effect that new technologies have had on their work.

The Cheryl Sourkes interview is now on-line.

The Jin-me Yoon interview is now on-line.

The Jennifer Dickson interview is now on-line.

Remember to come back often to see new artists and special features that have been added to CyberMuse.