Art galleries in Stratford

Stratford, ON has 3 art galleries on the map. That's 3 galleries mapped around Stratford. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Stratford (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include The People's Gallery and Chrysalides House, School of Fine Art and Gallery, plus Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. If a gallery's missing from Stratford's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Stratford gallery lineup

3 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Stratford

None of the 3 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Smaller galleries can keep irregular hours, so check the website before a special trip.

2 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.

Most of the art galleries in Stratford list a phone number. Handy for confirming opening times around exhibition changeovers.

The Stratford gallery walk

The efficient Stratford gallery walk strings these together: The People's Gallery, Chrysalides House, School of Fine Art and Gallery on 619 Wild Ginger Avenue, and Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery on 25 Caroline Street North — 3 stops, one logical order.

Gallery tips for Stratford

A few things worth knowing before you work through Stratford's art galleries:

• Look at the building too at The People's Gallery. Galleries often live in the most interesting architecture in town — converted warehouses, old banks, heritage houses.
• Ask about the price list at Chrysalides House, School of Fine Art and Gallery. It's normal to ask, even if you're not buying. It tells you how the market values the work.
• Ask the gallerist. They know the work, the artists, and what's coming next. Most are delighted when someone asks a real question.
• Buy local art if you can. An original from a local artist costs less than you think and means more than any print. Start with works on paper.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Stratford — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Stratford can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 3, or a art gallery we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 3 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.