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Government of Canada Invests in AGO’s Weston Family Learning Centre

TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario’s much anticipated Weston Family Learning Centre received a major boost from the federal government with today’s announcement of a $7.5 million funding contribution from the government’s Infrastructure Stimulus Fund. Toronto firm Hariri Pontarini Architects has been selected to design the new centre, which will occupy space within the AGO’s existing footprint. The firm’s many educational, commercial and residential projects include the award-winning Schulich School of Business and McKinsey & Company office building in Toronto. Plans for the 35,000 square-foot Learning Centre were crystallized in late 2008 following on the announcement of a lead gift of $12 million from The W. Garfield Weston Foundation. The gift included $10 million toward capital costs for the Learning Centre and $2 million toward an endowment to be named the Weston Foundation Teacher Training Fund – the AGO’s first education pr