Exhibitions in Toronto
December 2025
December 2025 at a glance: 0 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 6 more were on view across the city.
Was on view in December
Rough & Ready: A History of the Cowboy Bootto 20 SeptBata Shoe Museum
The cowboy boot from its late-19th-century invention to ranches, cinema and contemporary fashion, with pieces from the collection and 13 lenders.
- In Search of Imperfection: The Macdonald Collection of Japanese and Japanese-Inspired Ceramicsto 31 Dec
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.
Crawford Lake: Layers in Timeto 3 JanRoyal 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.
Critical Minerals: Critical Choicesto 3 JanRoyal Ontario Museum
Gallery installation in Earth's Treasures on the minerals essential to a net-zero society, and the lifestyle choices tied to them.
Made By Many: 50 Years of the Textile Museum of Canadato 1 FebTextile 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.
André Perugia: A Design Legend Unveiledto 4 AprBata Shoe Museum
Over 95 designs by André Perugia (1893-1977), pioneer of the stiletto heel, made for Dior, Schiaparelli, Josephine Baker and other clients.
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