
Art Gallery of Ontario
Frank Gehry, who grew up nearby, remade it in 2008 with a long wooden gallery on the street. The Group of Seven, and the largest public collection of Henry Moore.
Canada's biggest collections, an architecture of crystals and curves, and a city that has made art a night out every October.


Frank Gehry, who grew up nearby, remade it in 2008 with a long wooden gallery on the street. The Group of Seven, and the largest public collection of Henry Moore.

Natural history and world cultures, with Daniel Libeskind's aluminium-and-glass Crystal (2007) bursting out of the 1914 building.

Islamic arts from across a thousand years, in Fumihiko Maki's white building (2014), with gardens of reflecting pools.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, in a 1919 aluminium factory, the Tower Automotive Building, since 2018.
Rooms, ruins and curiosities: the city's other museum.

Four thousand years of shoes, in a building by Raymond Moriyama (1995) shaped like a shoebox with its lid ajar.

A domed Palm House of 1910 and a run of glasshouses, free and warm in winter.

Raymond Moriyama's library (1977), five floors of terraces around a central atrium.
The Group of Seven in log and fieldstone buildings in the woods at Kleinburg, about 45 minutes north.
AGO at opening → lunch in Chinatown → the ROM → the Bata Shoe Museum → MOCA in the late afternoon.