The Museum of Inuit Art serves as a non-profit, permanent museum whose primary function is to ethically acquire, conserve, research, communicate and exhibit for the purpose of study, education, and enjoyment, material evidence of the history of Inuit art and culture in the Canadian Arctic.

Mandate
The Mandate of the Museum includes the following principal objective:

Curatorial Activities-Research, Communication and Study: to insure that each work acquired by or loaned to the museum is assessed and catalogued, which information, when works are exhibited, will be published (and electronically archived) in museum produced literature, all under the supervision of the museum curator. In so doing, the museum intends to contribute to the body of scholarship on Inuit Art.