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Program directory · National Gallery of Canada

National Gallery of Canada

Program code
BRY00 (NGC)
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2018-19 – 2024-25

What it does

To develop, maintain, and make known, throughout Canada and internationally, a collection of works of art, both historic and contemporary, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada and to further knowledge, understanding, and enjoyment of art in general among all Canadians.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25National Gallery of Canada 2018-19: $51.5MNational Gallery of Canada 2019-20: $47.2MNational Gallery of Canada 2020-21: $54.5MNational Gallery of Canada 2021-22: $52MNational Gallery of Canada 2022-23: $50.4MNational Gallery of Canada 2023-24: $50.7MNational Gallery of Canada 2024-25: $50MNational Gallery of Canada
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
National Gallery of CanadaThis program2018-19 – 2024-25$356M

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

No significant changes detected.

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $51.5M2018-192019-20: $47.2M2019-202020-21: $54.5M2020-212021-22: $52M2021-222022-23: $50.4M2022-232023-24: $50.7M2023-242024-25: $50M2024-25
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19—$51.5M
2019-20—$47.2M
2020-21—$54.5M
2021-22—$52M
2022-23—$50.4M
2023-24—$50.7M
2024-25—$50M

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.