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Museums you cant miss when visiting Toronto
By: Joni Hatcher
Are you soon gonna visit Toronto? While museums in general might not be your cup of tea, but it's worth considering Toronto is home to quite a few major galleries and museums. Many of them are actually totally worth a visit even if you don't like art that much. Try a few of them out because it's more fun enjoying than you'd think.
Lets begin with The Royal Ontario Museum, in short ROM. ROM is largest museum in Canada with over fourty galleries. Displaying both natural history items as well as art works and not to forget the worlds largest collection of avian and mammalian skeletons. I promise you, that's something extra. The Far East collection, also worth the money by itself, the single largest collection of artifacts from the far east (I mean outside of China, of course). It is anchored by the Ming Tomb, a complete 1700 century warriors tomb and is in fact the only complete Chinese tomb available in the West.
Moving on to the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art ,once affiliated with Royal Ontario Museum. As you can guess ceramics is what they can offer you. Being the home to more than 2 000 pieces of ceramic art, featuring just about everything from ancient potteries to fantastic collections of, antique, European porcelains.
The Art Gallery of Toronto has fantastic collections of European and Canadian art. Some people say the biggest attraction is its collection of Henry Moore sculptures, being one of the largest in the world. Henry Moore actually personally designed the exhibit space for this collection back in 1974.
For more than thirty years the Textile Museum of Canada has displayed international fiber art ,i.e textiles. Their permanent exhibition is made up by over 12,000 textiles, from pieces as much as 2000 years old to modern designs. The collection contains pieces from more than 200 regions of the world.
The famous architect Raymond Moriyama has designed the building where the Bata Shoe Museum is housed. Just to see the building is enjoyable. Here they have a 4,500 pieces, semi-permanent exhibit about shoes that highlights different shoes and footwear from all parts of the world, for example ancient Egyptian sandals as well as sexy stilettos of 1990s. The Bata Shoe museum also has three additional galleries that display special non-permanent exhibits throughout the year.
Last even museums and art can be interesting. Now you have some ideas what not to miss when visiting Toronto. |