Museums in Toronto

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is Canada's largest natural history and world culture museum, famous for Daniel Libeskind's dramatic crystalline glass entrance (the 'Michael Lee-Chin Crystal') that juts from the original building.

The Hockey Hall of Fame is Canada's cathedral of hockey — housing the Stanley Cup, a massive archive of hockey memorabilia, and interactive simulators where you can shoot, defend, and broadcast a game.

Designed by Pritzker Prize winner Fumihiko Maki, the Aga Khan Museum showcases Islamic art and culture across 1,400 years — from Qurans and ceramics to contemporary installations — in a luminous granite-and-glass building surrounded by formal Mughal-inspired gardens.

The Bata Shoe Museum houses over 13,000 shoes spanning 4,500 years, from Egyptian sandals and Inuit boots to Elton John's platforms — all displayed in a Raymond Moriyama-designed building shaped like a shoebox.

Spadina Museum is a 55-room Victorian and Edwardian mansion built in 1866 atop the Spadina ravine. Its rooms are restored to four different time periods, and the surrounding gardens include an orchard, rose garden, and greenhouse.