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If you're a history buff, art aficionado, archaeology fiend, or dabbler in the sciences, our museum picks are perfect for a rainy day or afternoon excursion! Our selections center around notable collections of historical and cultural items. Many have excellent rotating displays in addition to exceptional permanent collections.
Category: Museums - Toronto Attractions & Activities
Address: 317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4
This extensive museum is comprised of 50 galleries and represents all media and the best traditions of Western art. Its strongest collections are Impressionist paintings and the Canadian Group of Seven. The latter were a group of 1920s landscape painters who, through their use of bright colors, substantially influenced all Ontario painting....
Category: Museums - Toronto Attractions & Activities
Address: 327 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1W7
Housed in Richard Moriyama's award-winning, five-story building, this museum is North America's largest shoe museum. The collection boasts over 10,000 artifacts spanning 4,500 years. Items displayed include shoes from notables such as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Elton John, Ginger Spice, Imelda Marcos, and an Egyptian smuggler who lived in 300...
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
Category: Museums - Toronto Attractions & Activities
Address: 111 Queen's Park, Victoria University, Toronto, ON M5S 2C7
Items in this one-of-a-kind museum range widely across the centuries and include pre-Columbian artifacts dating to 3000 BC. Also included are 17th century English pottery, 18th century European and Chinese porcelains, and items from the Renaissance. Ceramics by Canadian artists are featured as well. The Clay Pit allows folks to try their hand at...
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Category: Museums - Toronto Attractions & Activities
Address: 10365 Islington Ave, Kleinburg, ON L0J 1C0
Although 40 minutes north of Toronto, this museum's beautiful woodland setting and magnificent collection of Canadian and native art absolutely justify the drive. Items of note include landscapes by the Group of Seven (landscape artists during the 1920s who used dramatic colors to record the Canadian wilderness) and fine collections of First...
Category: Museums - Toronto Attractions & Activities
Address: 55 Centre Ave, Toronto, ON M5G 2H5
This museum deals exclusively with collecting and documenting textiles from around the world. Included in the collection are costumes, ceremonial cloths, tapestries, an African story-telling cloth, and rich embroideries. The museum also offers educational programs designed to increase public knowledge of the artifacts' cultural and historical...
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Address: 770 Don Mills Rd, Toronto, ON M3C 1T3
The Ontario Science Centre opens minds to science and technology through interactive exhibits, demonstrations, and programs that excite, inspire, and motivate. The attraction offers more than 800 hands-on interactive exhibitions about sports, space, food, and chemistry. Also capturing attention are live demonstrations and films about electricity,...
Category: Museums - Toronto Attractions & Activities
Address: 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6
Canada's largest museum and research facility preserves over six million treasures of art, archaeology and natural science. The ROM, as it's called, features an intricate Venetian glass ceiling that illustrates myriad cultures. Exhibits include everything from bats and dinosaur bones to a Ming tomb in the Chinese art and antiquities collection....
Category: Museums - Toronto Attractions & Activities
Address: 95 Front St E, Toronto, ON M5E 1C2
Elements of the city's heritage have been carefully preserved and are now displayed in what was the City Council Chamber from 1845 to 1899. The Gallery offers a unique glimpse of Toronto's past, and paintings and artifacts document its history. Also located in the building are behind-the-scene components that make the place work – offices, storage...
Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre
Category: Museums - Toronto Attractions & Activities
Address: 67 Pottery Rd, Toronto, ON M4K 2B8
This open-air museum features a unique collection of early settlement and industrial buildings, including a saw mill, grist mill, paper mill, brewery, and distillery. First settled in the 1790s, the area was once an important mill site on the Don River. The main orientation gallery houses both permanent and changing displays, and a wildflower...
Toronto Police Museum and Discovery Centre
Category: Museums - Toronto Attractions & Activities
Address: 40 College St, Toronto, ON M5G 2J3
First established in 1946 as a training facility for new officers, this museum was converted to a public museum in 1960. Located in the atrium of the main police headquarters building, the museum's exhibits detail the history of the Police Service and offer collections of weapons and criminal evidence. Police vehicles, equipment, and uniforms...
