The Jewish Museum of Canada is a proposed museum to be built in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by a partnership of the family of Rosalie and Isadore Sharp, founder of the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, and the United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Toronto.
[3] The proposal, which was announced in September 2014, has been indefinitely shelved due to the United Jewish Appeal prioritizing other fundraising projects while the University of Toronto, which had been a partner in the project, wished to proceed immediately with developing the cultural centre that the museum was to be a part.
They have a project that they are moving forward with, and they certainly wanted [the museum] to be part of it, but we had a timeline to work on it, and it just wasn’t feasible with the commitments that had already been made by federation."
The complex is to include a 250-seat performance hall for the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, space for the university's department of history, the department of Near and Middle Eastern civilizations, the Institute of Islamic Studies, and a research arm for the Centre for Jewish Studies.
[2] In January 2016, however, the university announced that it was proceeding with the construction of what is now to be called the Centre for Civilizations and Cultures, without the participation of the Jewish Museum of Canada, because the UJA "needed to focus on more pressing funding priorities.