Toronto, capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario, is an art enthusiast's dream. The city, the fifth largest in
North America, is home to several major galleries and museums.
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is the largest in Canada with more than 40 galleries. The museum displays both art works and
natural history items and has the largest collection of avian and mammalian skeletons in the world. The museum's Far East
Collection, the largest collection of far eastern artifacts outside of China, is anchored by the Ming Tomb, a complete
seventeenth century warriors tomb and the only complete Chinese tomb in the West.
The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art was, at one time affiliated with the Royal Ontario Museum. This specialized museum is
home to more than 2,000 pieces of ceramic art. Their collection features everything from pre-Columbian pottery to classic
European porcelains of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Art Gallery of Toronto has strong collections of European and Canadian art. One of the main attractions of the Gallery
is its collection of Henry Moore sculptures, one of the largest in the world. Henry Moore personally designed the exhibit
space for this collection in 1974.
For more than thirty years the Textile Museum of Canada has celebrated international fiber art. Their permanent collection
contains more than 12,000 textiles, from pieces as much as 2000 years old to modern designs, with samples from more than 200
regions of the world.
The Bata Shoe Museum is housed in a whimsical, shoebox-shaped building designed by architect Raymond Moriyama. The museum
is home to a 4,500-piece, semi-permanent "History of Shoes" exhibit that highlights examples of footwear spanning time and
the globe, from ancient Egyptian sandals to the sleekly sexy stilettos of 1990s. The Bata also has three additional
galleries that display special exhibits throughout the year.
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