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Toronto Art and Museums
Maya Hanson
http://www.aircraftdata.net
Thinking of going to Toronto? Museums and art galleries might not sound like too much fun, but first do consider the fact the city have quite a few major galleries and museums. Most of them are really totally worth a visit even if you really aren't into art. Try a few of them out because it's more fun enjoying than you'd think.
Let's start with The Royal Ontario Museum. It's the largest museum in Canada with over 40 galleries. Displaying both natural history items and art works and also has the largest collection of mammalian and avian skeletons in the world. The Far East collection, being the largest collection of far eastern artifacts (I mean outside of China, of course). It is anchored by the Ming Tomb, a complete seventeenth century warriors tomb and the only complete Chinese tomb available in the West.
Next the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art ,once affiliated with Royal Ontario Museum. As you can guess ceramics is what they can offer you. Being the home to more than 2 000 pieces of ceramic art, featuring just about everything from pre-Columbian pottery to classic European porcelains of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Art Gallery of Toronto has fantastic collections of both European and Canadian art. Maybe the biggest attraction of the gallery is the collection of Henry Moore sculptures, being one of the largest in the world. Henry Moore in fact personally designed the exhibit space for this collection in 1974.
The Textile Museum of Canada has for more than thirty years celebrated
international fiber art ,i.e textiles. Their permanent exhibition is made up by more than 12,000 textiles, from pieces as much as 2000 years old to modern designs. The collection contains samples from more than 200 regions of the world.
The great architect Raymond Moriyama in the designer behind the building where the Bata Shoe Museum is housed. Worth a visit just to see the building.
Here they have a 4,500 pieces, semi-permanent exhibit about shoes that highlights different shoes and footwear spanning time and the globe, for example ancient Egyptian sandals as well as sexy stilettos of 1990s. The Bata Shoe museum, in short just Bata, also has three additional galleries that display special non-permanent exhibits throughout the year.
In short even museums and art can be interesting. Now you know what not to miss when in Toronto.
Maya Hanson is an editor of Aircraftdata.net, tries to get her kids interesting in art and currenty works with Pilot training
Article submitted Thursday, April 24, 2008
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