Bata Shoe Museum

A fun museum, great for kids although a lot of the exhibits can be found in your parent's closet.

Une expérience franchement originale! Le musée nous a surpris par la variété de ses expositions, nous recommandons fortement

Such a unconventional museum but a place not to be missed. Took my 11 years and 4 years old daughters here and they were so excited to understand and know the history of shoes.

To be honest, one of the staff was very rude, yesterday I went there when I registered, I made a mistake, then she became impatient and she was talking to me very harshly! Her negative attitude hurt me, today I am still angry and I won’t go there anymore!

Nice museum to learn a bit about shoes history, FREE on Sundays.
4 floors, elavator accessible.
Close to St George Subway station a block away.
Eight on Bloor and St George St

I took my in-laws to the museum they really liked it; our only disappointment were about the description of the exhibition are only in English the majority of the museums have French and English descriptions.
I got two great books.

This museum provides interesting nuggets of evolution of shoes ranging from ballerina to astronauts to the famous Jordans. It is not too big and can probably cover all the exhibits in half a day. The only problem for me is that as a long time bata shoe user since my formative years, there isn't anything much about bata's history in the museum. I always thought that Bata is from my home country until much later thanks to Wikipedia.

Loved the experience. There’re many interesting shoes. Went on Sunday and it’s free admission day.

Pleasantly surprised with this museum. Got in with a reciprocal membership, and enjoyed the exhibits. Didn't take a long time to go though everything, but the history of shoes was really interesting

C’est un musée intéressant sur un sujet un peu inusité. Le musée n’est pas très grand, mais le prix pour l’entrée est très abordable.

The museum has a great collection, but the facility needs a wheelchair ramp through inside the exhibition instead of using the elevator every time to go to the next level.

We had a great time trying to walk in the different shoe's a great laugh Would recommend you go. Really interesting, was good checking the history shoe's from around the world

Hmmm, ok, what to do today thats a bit different.
Great choice! Super museum! Head downstairs first to try on the wacky shoes - fun for all!
Friendly staff. Easy to get to on TTC.

More than just a niche museum, the Bata Shoe Museum showcases the history of footwear in various cultures. Exhibits cover 4,500 years of history and range from Chinese bound foot shoes to Egyptian sandals. Regularly changing special exhibits keep the museum engaging. The museum also offers lectures, performances, and family events.

Nothing interesting that much, I went to Toronto to see how they arranged the flowers between shoes boxes but I found the place empty inside, its seem that the lovely decor was in the first days of the exhibition but they still advertise the flower theme and no flowers only the artificial one on the window outside.

For the shoes collection it was diverse but not worth the trip. (I think the photo is enough for the people who are interested)

Current exhibits are a bit underwhelming. Museum itself is much smaller on the inside-only about 1/3 of the actual building's size. Recommend waiting until the next exhibit is available, unless you can grab a free pass somewhere.

Just Beautiful. I don't know if they do Tour Guides, but this would be an even better experience with one.

It may seem strange to have a museum dedicated to shoes but it's oddly fascinating! Worth a stop just for the novelty. I'm not even someone who goes gaga for shoes but there are some unique shoes!

I got the MAP pass from the Toronto Public Library (the passes are available online so you can check out the library website to learn more).

My mom loves flowers so the idea was to bring her there to see the newest exhibition.

There are 4 floors, they recommend us start from the basement, where kids and adults can enjoy trying on and playing with some humongous shoes The Bloom exhibition was on the 3/F.

Upon arrival we borrow their wheelchair (their website mentioned there is 1 wheelchair available, first come first serve).

The whole museum was very accessible despite there were different floors.

It was nice to see the history, culture and evolution of shoes.

The Bloom exhibition did not disappoint, we loved the flower installation in the middle of the space.

It’s a small museum and quite delightful.
The staffs were friendly.

In terms of parking, there are some parking spaces on Huron road, north of Bloor.

A lovely museum with lots of interesting types and styles of shoes, as well as a beautiful AR experience.

Loved the new exhibit In Bloom, including the main floor window display. I went as part of Doors Open Toronto but there is free admission on Sunday’s. Easily accessible via TTC, parking in that area can be a challenge.

Not worth the hype and I didn’t see one single shoe from Bata? The lady at the gift store was EXTREMELY rude. Absolutely don’t recommend unless it’s free.

This is an interesting, fun, funky place. We thoroughly enjoyed it. A break from the more traditional museums.l

Nice place to visit
Heard abt this museum 20 yrs ago
But never got chance to visit
Very recent took my grandniece to this museum glad i visited.

A fascinating museum! Really learned a lot about the niche topic of shoes. It gave a very good overview of shoes from ancient history to modern times. Lots of interesting and beautiful collection as well! Highly recommend visiting it and give yourself at least 2 to 3 hours.

It's a great place if you're into shoes, or even sneakers! Understand the history of it and get to know why it is the way it is!

Very nice museum to learn the history of shoes categorized by different eras, cultures, countries and even religious significance. Great and surprising facts to learn and to see so many varieties of shoes from eons ago and from the current century and some futuristic ones.
Beautifully organized. Very conveniently located. Traveled by TTC, so not sure about the parking.
ROM is less than 10 mins walk from Bata museum. The Bloor Yorkville village is also 10 mins by walk.

Pleasantly surprised by this museum. Visited as part of Doors Open Toronto. There are 4 floors with different exhibits. If is recommended to start from the basement and then make your way up. Very interesting history of shoes, starting with the first ever pair of shoes ever recorded in history and it's evolution in many parts of the globe. The exhibits in the basement, the shoes of the future, and botanical shoes were our favorite.