Doors Open Toronto – 200 years of building the urban city – Free to visit!
In 2000, the City of Toronto launched the first Doors Open event in North America, and has been a part of the provincewide Doors Open Ontario program since 2002. All building participants this year will focus on city builders – the people and personalities that are associated with our city’s history. In commemoration of the War of 1812 bicentennial, More...
Post-secondary students visit for free the Gardiner Museum every tuesday
The Gardiner Museum is one of North America’s pre-eminent centres for the display and study of ceramics. Nowhere is the fundamental importance of ceramics, in the past and now, so evident as in our permanent More...
Visit The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art for free
The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) was founded from the former Art Gallery of North York in 1999, and exists as a not-for-profit, arms-length agency of the City of Toronto. In 2005, MOCCA relocated More...
Visit the Permanent Collection for free at the Art Museum of Toronto
Founded in 1900 by a group of private citizens as the Art Museum of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario is one of the largest art museums in North America, with a physical facility of 583,000 square feet. The AGO More...
The Bata Shoe Museum is free every Thursday night
Discover the treasures of North America’s charming and surprising shoe museum. Hundreds of shoes (from a collection numbering over 10,000) are on exhibit in architect Raymond Moriyama’s award-winning More...
Visit the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto for free
The Textile Museum of Canada is one of Toronto’s most engaging visual arts organizations. With more than 12,000 objects from more than 200 countries and regions, the TMC’s permanent collection celebrates More...
Enjoy the Cavalcade of Lights show in Toronto
A spectacular 45 year Toronto tradition, Cavalcade of Lights marks the start of the holiday season with live musical performances, twinkling lights, ice skating, the lighting of Toronto’s official Christmas More...
Toronto Santa Claus Parade
In 1905, the Toronto Santa Claus parade premiered when a single float carrying Santa Claus arrived at Toronto Union Station and made its way to the downtown Eaton’s department store where Santa shook hands More...
Experience The Distillery District for free in Toronto
And you must experience it for yourself. The Distillery District is an internationally acclaimed village of brick-lined streets and dozens of vibrantly restored Victorian Industrial buildings. It’s one of Ontario’s More...
Visit the Toronto Island Park
There is plenty to do on Toronto’s picturesque Centre Island completely free-of-charge. The picnic park offers a beach, trails for walking or biking, two softball diamonds, three wading pools, two volleyball More...
