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The Royal Ontario Museum is a museum of world cultures and natural history on Queen's Park in Toronto, founded in 1912 and opened in 1914. Its galleries show dinosaurs, minerals and meteorites beside art and objects from Canada, Asia, Africa and Europe. Daniel Libeskind's angular Michael Lee-Chin Crystal was added to the historic building in 2007.

The Bata Shoe Museum is a museum of footwear on Bloor Street West in Toronto, opened in 1995 in a building designed by Raymond Moriyama. It grew out of the collection Sonja Bata began in the 1940s and holds more than 13,000 shoes and related objects spanning 4,500 years, shown in a permanent exhibition and changing exhibitions.

The Art Gallery of Ontario is an art museum on Dundas Street West in downtown Toronto, founded in 1900 as the Art Museum of Toronto. Frank Gehry redesigned and enlarged the building between 2004 and 2008, adding its long glass and timber façade. The collection of more than 120,000 works covers Canadian, Indigenous, European and African art from the first century to today.

The Hockey Hall of Fame is a museum of ice hockey in downtown Toronto, founded in 1943 and housed since 1993 in Brookfield Place and a 19th-century Bank of Montreal building. Its exhibits cover players, teams, NHL records and international hockey, and the Stanley Cup is shown in the Great Hall under a stained-glass dome.

The Aga Khan Museum is a museum of Islamic art in the North York district of Toronto, opened in September 2014 by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Its white building by Fumihiko Maki holds about 1,200 objects, among them a copy of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine dated 1052, and stands in a landscaped park beside the Ismaili Centre.