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Bata Shoe Museum

Discover the treasures of North America's charming and surprising shoe museum. Hundreds of shoes (from a collection numbering over 10,000) are on exhibit in architect Raymond Moriyama's award-winning four-storey structure.  The Museum celebrates the style and function of footwear in four impressive galleries. Footwear on display ranges from Chinese bound foot shoes and ancient Egyptian sandals to chestnut-crushing clogs and glamorous platforms. Over 4,500 years of history and a collection of 20th-century celebrity shoes are reflected in the semi-permanent exhibition, All About Shoes. Three other galleries feature changing exhibitions, so there's always something new to see.

Exhibitions:
Chronicles of Riches: Treasures from the Bata Shoe Museum On display until February 2009
Beauty, Identity, Pride: Native North American Footwear
On display until November 2009
On Pointe: The Rise of the Ballet Shoe
On display from April 16, 2008 until February 15, 2009

Hours:
Monday – Wednesday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Friday- Saturday: 10 a.m. – 5p.m.
Sunday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography

The CMCP's mandate is to collect, interpret and disseminate the best of both documentary and art photography produced by contemporary Canadian artists. Its holdings include over 160,000 photographs, photo-based works, negatives and transparencies. The collection includes materials from the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada from 1962 to 1985 as well as acquisitions made by the museum since its founding in 1985. Works in the collection are exhibited in downtown Ottawa at One Rideau Canal, circulated nationally and internationally through the travelling exhibitions program and lent to other institutions. The scope of the CMCP's activities - collecting, publishing, organizing exhibitions, travelling exhibitions and educational programs - allows it to play a central role in fostering the efforts and development of photography in Canada.

Exhibitions:
Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate
June 27, 2008  - October 13, 2008
Contemporary Galleries B102 and B103 (NGC)

Hours:
Open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 am to 5 pm, Thursday to 8 pm.

Gardiner Museum

The Gardiner Museum offers an intimate look at one of the world’s oldest and most universal forms of art and material culture—ceramics. Complemented by special exhibitions, the collection exceeds 3,000 historical and contemporary pieces and spans continents and time, giving you an extraordinary glimpse into the development of the ceramic process, decoration and shape. Located across from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto’s charming Yorkville district, the Gardiner has undergone a major expansion of its gallery and studio spaces. It remains one of the city’s finest examples of modernist architecture. To further enhance your visit to Canada’s only museum devoted to ceramics, the Gardiner houses an acclaimed retail shop and restaurant as well as a research library. Try sculpting clay and wheel throwing in the open clay studio or take part in an instructed course. Artist talks, book launches and free Friday films are just some of the other programs happening at the Museum.

Exhibitions:
Postmodern Porcelain - Curator: Charles Mason
August 25, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Days of the Dead - Curator: Diane Wolfe
October 3, 2008 – January  18, 2009

Hours:
Monday- Thursday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. – 9 p.m., Saturday/Sunday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Royal Ontario Museum

The ROM is defined as much by its diverse collections of world cultures and natural history as by the international research that supports them. It follows that the new ROM galleries will be object-rich, supported by unobtrusive interpretive aids. We shall put all our major collections on permanent display for the first time ever and improve visitor orientation and circulation. Greater intimacy between the visitor and objects will reveal the context and meaning of objects.  A visit to the new ROM will also offer an array of creature comforts: comfortable gathering places, simple signage, easier accessibility, first-rate restaurants, fine retail shops and unique spaces for special events. A well, the ROM will be better integrated into the urban fabric of Toronto, with a new Bloor Street Plaza and Music Court, dramatic views into the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal through large planes of glass, and elegant landscaping and lighting.

Exhibitions:
October 2, 2008, October 3, 2008 and October 6, 2008,
Shanghai 1860-1949: Historical Photographs Current Until October 26, 2008,
Shanghai Kaleidoscope Current Exhibitions until November 2, 2008,
Wedgwood: Artistry and Innovation Current Exhibitions June 7, 2008 to July 5, 2009

Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Textile Museum of Canada

Incorporated in 1975 as the Canadian Museum of Carpets and Textiles, the TMC first presented its collection in a very modest room in Toronto's Mirvish Village. In 1989 we celebrated the opening of our new facility at 55 Centre Avenue. Now known as the Textile Museum of Canada, the TMC has gained international recognition for the quality and importance of its collection, and the excellence of its exhibitions and programming. The Textile Museum of Canada is one of eight museums of its kind and the only museum in Canada solely dedicated to the collection, exhibition and documentation of textiles from around the world. Visitors to the galleries can experience the traditions, skills and creative processes that make textile arts so engaging. The collection of more than 12,000 pieces represents over 200 countries and regions.

Exhibitions:
Battleground: Patches – Military Uniform Insignia
Dates: April 7, 2008 – January 27, 2009 Curated by: Max Allen

Battleground: The Kandahar Journals of Richard Johnson
Dates: April 7, 2008 - January 27, 2009 Artist Richard Johnson, Curated by Max Allen

Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan
Dates: April 23, 2008 - January 27, 2009 Curated by Max Allen

Hours:
Daily 11:00 a.m.  - 5:00 p.m.,
Wednesday: 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

The Museum for Contemporary Canadian Art

The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, (MOCCA), was officially founded from the former Art Gallery of North York in 1999 with a mandate to exhibit, research, collect, and promote innovative art by Canadian artists whose works engage and reflect the relevant stories of our times. MOCCA currently exists as a not-for-profit, arms-length agency of the City of Toronto’s Culture Division. MOCCA’s relocation into downtown Toronto in January 2005 is central to achieving a bold vision. In the heart of one of North America’s most dynamic arts communities, our facility is modest in scale, impressive in design and functions effectively as a nucleus of energies for the production and exchange of creativity, ideas and innovation. MOCCA’s exhibition program reflects a dynamic yet balanced approach to presenting the wide range of ideas and media being explored by established artists at advanced stages of practice, and emerging artists who have demonstrated strong promise and exceptional commitment. In addition, MOCCA includes work by non-Canadian artists in group exhibitions, thereby creating a global context for the Canadian cultural voice. MOCCA maintains and builds upon its permanent collection, currently holding approximately 400 works of art by more than 150 Canadian artists, acquired through purchase and donation. The collection includes seminal works by some of Canada’s most important

Exhibitions:
September 9, 2008 - October 26, 2008
Dyed roots: the new emergence of culture
Rina Banerjee, Victor Bergen-Henegouwen, Emelie Chhangur, Brendan Fernandes, Reeta Saeed, and others

Hours:
Tuesday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
and Closed Mondays

Todmodern Mills Museum and Art Centre

On 9.2 acres of green space in the Don river Valley, the Todmodern Mills Museum and Art Centre is surrounded by historic homes, a brewery and the relocated Don train station. The grounds hold 120 people, while the renovated historic paper mill seats 80, or hold 100 for receptions. Todmodern Mills Heritage Museum & Art Centre is one of 10 historic museums operated by Toronto Culture.

Hours:
Wednesday – Friday 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Weekend 12 p.m. - 4 p.m.