Exhibitions in Toronto

Textile Museum of CanadaPast

A community exhibition of works made in the museum's free Second Life workshops, exploring sustainable craft and textile making as creative responses to the climate crisis.

Bata Shoe MuseumPast

The cowboy boot from its late-19th-century invention to ranches, cinema and contemporary fashion, with pieces from the collection and 13 lenders.

Mercer Union, a Centre for Contemporary ArtFreePast

Alize Zorlutuna's sculptural banners cut into large-format reproductions of Ebru, the marbled hydrographic printing technique, releasing the movement within.

Casa LomaPast

Original costumes worn by the stars of Downton Abbey, from tweeds and servants' uniforms to beaded evening gowns, shown on Casa Loma's 2nd and 3rd floors.

Art Gallery of OntarioPast

The Italian filmmaker's Canadian debut: unsettling, tender films using CGI, prosthetics and robotics, centred on his newest work Krapfen (2025).

Royal Ontario MuseumPast

Immersive art-meets-science show by National Museums Liverpool and sculptor Wolfgang Buttress tracing 120 million years of bee adaptation and survival.

Art Gallery of OntarioPast

Canadian debut of the Dallas Museum of Art's survey of Impressionism and its legacy, with Monet, Morisot, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Gauguin, Matisse, Mondrian and Munch.

Royal Ontario Museum

A research-driven look at the cultural, historical and scientific significance of psychedelics through artworks, objects, botanical specimens and interactives.

Gardiner Museum

The Macdonald Collection shown in full for the first time: early Edo-period Japanese porcelain and Japanese-inspired ceramics, explored through nature, leisure and global trade.

Royal Ontario Museum

How sediments of a small lake near Milton, Ontario record 1,000 years of human impact, making it the "golden spike" candidate for the Anthropocene.

Royal Ontario Museum

Gallery installation in Earth's Treasures on the minerals essential to a net-zero society, and the lifestyle choices tied to them.

Textile Museum of Canada

Curated by Amber-Dawn Bear Robe, an immersive look at how contemporary Indigenous couturiers blend ancestral knowledge with innovation, featuring Kent Monkman, Brian Jungen and more.

Royal Ontario Museum

ROM's annual zodiac installation marks the Year of the Horse with horse figures from early China, once placed in tombs to serve the dead.

Textile Museum of Canada

A 50th-anniversary show tracing five decades of exhibitions back to the 1970s, with works by Bev Koski, Marimekko, Melinda Patterson, Thor Hansen, You Wenfeng and more.

Aga Khan Museum

A 15th-century carpet from Alcaraz, Spain, on loan from MFA Boston, where Muslim weavers blended Turkish designs with Iberian techniques.

Bata Shoe Museum

Over 95 designs by André Perugia (1893-1977), pioneer of the stiletto heel, made for Dior, Schiaparelli, Josephine Baker and other clients.

Aga Khan MuseumFree

Contemporary works from the Toronto Biennial of Art 2026 across the park, atrium, façade and galleries, including Dawit L. Petros. Free to visit.

Art Gallery of Ontario

Dawoud Bey's landscape photographs and the two-channel video 350,000 meditate on North American land and Black diasporic history, with works from the AGO's Frum Collection.

Aga Khan Museum

Artist Kamrooz Aram co-curates a gallery intervention setting his lapis-blue Arabesque paintings among collection works to challenge Eurocentric display.