Bata Shoe Museum

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, as well as lectures, performances and family events. The collection contains over 10 000 items from throughout history, as well as the present, and is the biggest and perhaps the only museum in North America dedicated solely to the history of footwear. The collection which became the Bata Shoe Museum originated with Sonja Bata in the 1940s. As she travelled the world on...