The shoe museum in Toronto is an interesting placed to spend about half an hour. Maybe you can stretch it out to an hour if you walk very slowly. It's not very big, meaning there aren't all that many shoes to see. It's just a kind of off-beat funky thing to do. It's in a nice neighborhood, close to the... More

I knew about this interesting museum before my trip to Toronto. I wished to visit it and was not disappointed. Very nice, cozy and interesting museum with special atmosphere of history, traditions and legends. Ancient shoes, ethnic shoes and many many others, shoes of XX century made by Andrea Perugia, Bernhard Gronberg and modern designers as Manolo Blahnik. Thank you... More

A visit to the Bata Shoe Museum is a must if you are in Toronto. I had been told it would take an hour or two to see everything but I could easily have spent three hours reading and looking! I didn't have a lot of time but started on the top floor where shoes were teamed with historical art... More

Who ever thought a museum of nothing but shoes would be so thought provoking and interesting? More

The Bata Shoe Museum was the first stop on our trip to Toronto and I have to say it was really enjoyable, well presented and we learned so much about the history of footwear from all over the world including some amazing old moccasins from Inuits and really high wooden clogs that make modern shoes that are a little outrageous... More

The Bata Shoe Museum is a museum in downtown Toronto, Canada, located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Bloor St and St George St, just east of The Annex neighbourhood, and by the University of Toronto campus. The museum collects, researches, preserves, and exhibits footwear from around the world. It offers four exhibitions, three of which are time-limited,... More

Like most women I love to see all the different styles of shoes and the shoes of interesting people. More

I don't think anybody's got anything quite like this. The Bata is both entertaining and surprisingly scholarly. Also the site of the annual Christmas Foxy Jewellery sale. More

Enjoyed hands on workshop that gave the kids and opportunity to work with crafts to design shoes and they got to take the art home. More