Toronto has a lot of places you can go to take a date, I will be chronicling some good places for people to take their dates on. The intent of these posts will serve as a good guideline for people looking for date ideas in Toronto to come, share and discover new places.
Let’s begin!
The museum is a great place to go on a date, the main reason being that it gets people to explore new things and comment and random things that they see. It also brings out the playful side in people and opens peoples imagination of how things existed in the past.
Here are Toronto’s 5 top Museums that you must check out:
1. Royal Ontario Museum - According to their website “The Royal Ontario Museum is among the world’s leading museums of natural history, and of world cultures. Indeed, in combining a universal museum of cultures with that of natural history, the ROM offers an unusual breadth of experience to visitors and scholars from around the world. We realize more acutely now that nature and humanity are intertwined, and the ROM offers many examples in its collections and programs of these fundamental relationships.”
2. Campbell House Museum - According to their website ” Campbell House is the oldest remaining house from the original site of the Town of York. Built in 1822 by Judge William Campbell and his wife Hannah, the home was designed for entertaining and comfort, and constructed at a time when the Campbells were socially and economically established and their children had grown to adulthood.”
The house is one of the few surviving examples of Georgian architecture left in Toronto. The Grange is another excellent example, although it is slightly older than Campbell House. Campbell House is constructed in a style in vogue during the late Georgian era known as Palladian architecture. This style was Italian in origin, and based upon elements of classical Greek and Roman architecture, which emphasized symmetry of features (windows, fireplaces, doors etc.) and grandiose proportions to exhibit wealth.”
3. The Canadian Air and Space Museum - According to their website “Founded in 1997 as the Toronto Aerospace Museum, the Canadian Air & Space Museum is an important year-round attraction within Downsview Park, Canada’s first National Urban Park which is managed by the federal government. The Museum is located in a building that isn’t just full of history, it’s part of history. From the days of wood and fabric open cockpit biplanes of the 1920’s, to the dawn of the space age in the 1960s. The building is the original 1929 home of The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd., (one of Canada’s most successful aircraft manufacturers) and also the original home of Canada’s leading space technology company best known as SPAR.”
4. Textile Museum of Canada - According to their website “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 cultural diversity and includes traditional fabrics, garments, carpets and related artifacts such as beadwork and basketry. The Museum offers a broad variety of exhibitions including themed shows based on our permanent collection and contemporary exhibitions of the work of Canadian and international artists.”
5. The Art Gallery of Ontario - According to their website “The AGO currently has more than 68,000 works in its collection, spanning from 100 AD to the present. Highlights include:
- More than 40% of the collection vividly documents the development of Canada’s art heritage since pre-Confederation, including one of the largest and finest Inuit art collections in the world. The collection includes pivotal works by Cornelius Krieghoff, Lucius O’Brien, James Wilson Morrice, Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven, David Milne, Emily Carr and Paul-Emile Borduas.
- Major holdings of the work of pre-eminent Canadian artists Paterson Ewen, Betty Goodwin, Greg Curnoe, David Blackwood, Kazuo Nakamura and American artist Robert Motherwell.
- The world’s largest public collection of works by internationally renowned British sculptor Henry Moore. “
In addition, if you’re looking for more Museums to go in check out, the Toronto website: http://www.toronto.worldweb.com/SightsAttractions/Museums/ is an excellent resource to explore. Hope you guys enjoy!
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