Audain Art Museum

Fall Lodging + Free Cultural Passes from $125 per night*

Book your stay for 2+ nights with an arrival date between September 2 – November 28, 2019, enter the promo code FALLARTS at checkout and receive 2 free Whistler Cultural Passes valued at $60.

Book online or call 1.800.944.7853 and your Whistler Cultural Passes will be delivered to your accommodation prior to your arrival. Hurry – this offer is valid for a limited time, and only at Whistler.com.

*This offer is valid with minimum two night stays between September 3 – November 28, 2019 only. You must use the promo code FALLARTS to receive the offer. Two free passes provided per booking with additional passes available for purchase. Advertised rate is before tax, based on two adults sharing a room for two nights, and is based on availability and subject to change. Please note that bookings are transacted in Canadian Dollars.

Whistler Cultural Pass – $30 per person

The Whistler Cultural Pass provides access to the Audain Art Museum as well as the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre at a reduced price. Save 15% when you purchase tickets as a pass (regular admission is valued at $18 per attraction).

Please note that the Audain Art Gallery is closed on Tuesdays and the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre is closed on Mondays. Passes are not dated and can be used at any time.

The museum displays up to three temporary exhibitions a year, creating an ever-changing display to delight locals and visitors alike. Including both historical and contemporary art, they produce their own exhibitions and showcase art from leading art institutions around the world to complement their permanent collection.

Current Exhibition

Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing – French Modernism and the West Coast

Date: September 21, 2019 – January 19, 2020
Description: A bold undertaking by the Audain Art Museum uncovers new information about dramatic changes in Emily Carr’s approach to painting over the course of three critical years: 1910 to 1912. The exhibition investigates Carr’s momentous journey to France (1910-1911) that broke the bonds of her conservative art training. Drawn from national and international public, private and corporate collections, it provides a rare opportunity for visitors to view over 50 paintings, watercolours, and drawings by Carr, along with a selection of works by Carr’s instructors whose work directly influenced her artistic development. These include English painter Henry William Phelan Gibb, Scottish painter John Duncan Fergusson and New Zealand watercolourist Frances Hodgkins.

Permanent Collection

The Museum contains a permanent collection of nearly 200 works of art from coastal British Columbia, including an outstanding collection of nineteenth century Northwest Coast masks, one of Canada’s strongest Emily Carr collections, as well as art by notable post-war modernists such as E.J. Hughes, Gordon Smith and Jack Shadbolt.

The collection includes The Crazy Stair, a painting by Emily Carr which sold at auction for a record-breaking $3.3 million. This price was the highest ever paid for an Emily Carr at auction, the highest for a work by a Canadian female artist and the fourth most expensive work at an art auction in Canada.

When to Visit

Whistler Cultural Pass

The Whistler Cultural Pass provides access to the Audain Art Museum as well as the Squamish Lil' Wat Cultural Centre at a reduced price. Save 15% when you purchase tickets as a pass.

Please note that the Audain Art Gallery is closed on Tuesdays and the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre is closed on Mondays. Passes are not dated and can be used at any time.