- Despite having driven by its crushed-shoe-box-inspired architecture countless times, I’d never visited the Bata Shoe Museum here in Toronto until this month.
- The Bata Shoe Museum Interior by joevare The Bata Shoe Museum Interior by joevare. You then make your way upstairs to see their temporary collections.
- Sonja Bata, the founder of the Bata Shoe Museum, has been collecting shoes since the 1940s. Mrs. Bata’s hobby began while traveling on business trips around...
- The Bata Shoe Museum is a five storey building that was built to house Sonja Bata's shoe collection.
- The Bata Shoe Museum boasts a vast collection of over 12,500 artifacts, including shoes and related objects, spanning over 4,500 years of human history.
- The first shoes collected by Sonja Bata for what became the Bata Shoe Museum came from the Maasai tribe in Kenya.
- Founded in 1995, this standout museum was built on the private collection of Sonja Bata, a shoe industry exec and world traveler who, over 50 years...
- In the first episode of the Bata Shoe Museum’s new video series, Senior Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack discusses the technique and skill used by...
- The exhibition features rarely seen artefacts chosen entirely from the Bata Shoe Museum’s foremost and comprehensive collection of Native footwear.