CMC - Timeless Treasures: The Story of Dolls in Canada

Hull, Quebec, February 1, 2000 — Opening on Thursday, February 3, 2000 in the Canada Hall Mezzanine of the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC), Timeless Treasures: The Story of Dolls in Canada celebrates dolls and doll making in Canada.

Occupying 1,200 square metres (4,000 square feet) and covering over a thousand years, Timeless Treasures showcases more than 400 dolls from the CMC, private collectors and doll artists across Canada. The exhibition features an unprecedented range of dolls connected to Canada: rare antiques, Inuit and First Nations dolls, Eaton's Beauties of the twentieth century, and 35 unique creations by current-day artists. This comprises the first-ever national exhibition of the work of Canadian doll artists. The exhibition reveals the wide range of meanings and uses ascribed to dolls throughout history, while also showing the technological developments in doll making and its industrialization in the twentieth century.

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