Museum Admission

Discover the treasures of North America’s inspiring, charming and surprising shoe museum.

Located in Toronto, the Bata Shoe Museum (BSM) regularly displays over a thousand shoes and related artefacts, chosen from a collection of almost 14,000 objects, in architect Raymond Moriyama’s iconic, award-winning building. The BSM celebrates the style, development and function of footwear across four impressive galleries, with displays ranging from Chinese bound-foot shoes and ancient Egyptian sandals to chestnut-crushing clogs and glamorous platforms. Over 4,500 years of history are reflected in our permanent exhibition, All About Shoes while our three other galleries feature changing exhibitions.

Over the course of this year we will continuing to present The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment and our newest exhibit, All Dolled Up: Fashioning Cultural Expectations explores how dolls and the clothes they wear have historically promoted complex cultural ideas about gender, body image, social status and fashion consumption in the West and how these ideas are being challenged today.