TOPHATs Doors Open Toronto SATURDAY
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Join Lawrence, your top hatted host, for our Saturday Doors Open Toronto Walk.
At 10 am, our adventure begins at the Spadina House and Gardens, location #33.
This heritage home demonstrates domestic life in the 1920s & '30s, plus a Victorian-Edwardian garden.
https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/history-art-culture/museums/spadina-museum/?WT.rd_id=%2Fspadina
At 11 am, we will head towards the Baldwin Steps, to get a view of our city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Steps
Then we will head down the steps to Toronto City Archives, location #22
Canada's largest municipal archives, to tour the Spadina Records Centre, the secure, climate-controlled facility where 130,000 boxes of one-of-a-kind Toronto history are stored.
At Noon, we head south on Spadina to the Pierre Léon Gallery at Alliance Francais Toronto, location #19.
WE SKY WATER LAND
Will always belong to the change
An exhibition in Toronto by French photographer Oliver Marchesi.
At 12:30, we will cross the street to the Madison Avenue Pub for a meal and a pint of the good stuff.
I will make a reservation for the number of TorontoBeerLovers.
http://www.madisonavenuepub.com/
At 1:30 pmish, we will leave the Maddy and head to Estonian Museum Canada/VEMU, location #24.
We will see the exhibit Unissued Diplomas. Never Graduated, Eternally Honoured
Last year they had a marketplace, with snacks, drinks, and cultural items to purchase.
https://www.vemu.ca/exhibition/unissued-diplomas-never-graduated-eternally-honoured/
At 2:30 pm, we will head east on Bloor to Muslims in Canada Archives, location #30 on the 5th floor of the Jackman Humanities Building.
I really love the Art Deco lobby of the Jackman building.
We will be experiencing a site tour at 3pm
At 3:30 pm, we will head to our last stop, the Women's Art Association of Canada, location #37.
Located in Toronto's Annex neighbourhood, the heart of the Women's Art Association of Canada (celebrating its 138th anniversary this year) is a charming 19th-century house that backs onto a lovely formal garden.
This concludes our Doors Open Toronto Saturday portion of our event.
I hope you will continue your adventure with me on Sunday at 10 am, starting at Toronto City Hall, location #119, where we travel to the 27th Floor Observation Deck
Nearby there are other locations you can visit such as...
The Bata Shoe Museum, location #79
The Royal Ontario Museum First People's Gallery, location #85