OTTAWA— After years of unsuccessful attempts to find it a permanent home, the Portrait Gallery of Canada is losing its name and director and being folded into the programs branch of Canada's national archives.

The move is part of a larger shake-up at Library and Archives Canada, the parent institution of the gallery, whose collection contains more than 20,000 paintings, drawings, and prints; 4 million photographs; and thousands of caricatures. As part of the archives’ programs branch, the gallery will continue to have a dedicated budget and staff and can still mount traveling exhibitions, although its director general, Lilly Koltun, has been let go. Its new status as a “portrait program” does not affect its chances of one day landing in a permanent exhibition space, an archives official says. But in 2007 and 2008, the government’s plans for a permanent home were ultimately dropped.

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