Officials with Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) are looking to track down over 100 works of Indigenous art held in a federal collection that are unaccounted for.

The Indigenous Art Collection has a total of 5,176 works from established and emerging First Nations, Métis and I nuit artists, valued at about $14.4 million.

It is looked after by the Indigenous Art Centre , which was established in 1965 to support the acquisition, protection, preservation and promotion of contemporary Indigenous art, and has a gallery in Gatineau, Que.

According to a November 2024 audit of the collection, the collection was moved from the facility in Gatineau in 2022, due to renovations, and put temporarily in a Public Services and Procurement Canada storage facility a

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