March break is here, which means there’s an entire week coming of keeping family, friends and kids occupied in Toronto.
Thankfully, the city has plenty to offer on the entertainment front, including state of the art museum exhibitions available through Destination Toronto’s cost-saving museum passes.
The one– and three-day passes grant visitors general admission access to seven museums across Toronto, each shedding light on the vibrant culture, history, innovative minds, and artistic talents of this bustling metropolitan centre.
The pass offers a bundle experience with notable names like the Ontario Science Centre and hidden gems such as The Textile Museum of Canada for an eclectic and well-rounded insight into the city’s versatile collection.
The museums included in the pass are also in relatively close proximity, meaning ticket holders can hop from one spot to another over the course of a day, or three.
The day passes save 70 per cent on regular admission, are available for kids, adults, and seniors, and can be purchased on the Destination Toronto website.
The passes can also conveniently be purchased on your phone, where you can share and track your pass usage as well. The 1-day pass ranges in price from $25-45, while the 3-day pass ranges from $45-$85.
Keep reading for a list of museums included in the pass and recommended exhibitions at each venue that you can check out. *
Aga Khan Museum
Exhibition: Shezad Dawood: Night In The Garden Of Love: Inspired By And Featuring Yusef Lateef
Night in the Garden of Love offers a sensory experience curated by British artist Shezad Dawood, and inspired by African-American Muslim musician and composer Dr. Yusef Lateef.
Dawood explores the transformational qualities of gardens and sets in motion a series of distinct encounters guided by VR, textile works, music, scent, and imagined plants that respond to digital algorithms.
Bata Shoe Museum
Exhibition: Obsessed: How Shoes Became Objects of Desire
How shoes became the objects of desire recalls the story of how society became obsessed with shoes.
This exhibit includes coveted shoes in the museum’s permanent collection and delves into how the industrial revolution transformed the way we consume shoes, drove the production of designer footwear, the ideation of celebrity designers, and turned shoes into highly-sought after collectibles.
Little Canada
Exhibition: Little Toronto, Little Niagara, Little Ottawa, Little Golden Horseshoe, Little East Coast, Petit Quebec.
Little Canada takes guests on an immersive adventure through some of the country’s most recognizable cities and landscapes, in a miniature scale.
The exhibition boasts 45,000 sq. ft. of immersive miniature exhibits, including Little Niagara, Little Toronto, Petit Quebec, and more!
Admire the detail of each location and get a glance of Canada as it’s never been seen before.
Ontario Science Centre
Exhibition: Our Climate Quest
This exhibit will teach visitors to unlock their planet saving potential!
Learn about the steps individuals can take to mitigate the impacts of climate change through interactive games and activities, multimedia experiences, and more at the Our Climate Quest exhibit.
Visitors will learn about our current understanding of the climate crisis and its impact through historical data and Indigenous knowledge. Explore how human consumption habits affect the climate at interactive exhibits, build and test sustainable solutions that could make a world difference and reflect on how we connect to nature and each other by listening to true stories from real people fighting climate change in Canada.
Royal Ontario Museum
Exhibition: Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery
This thought-provoking exhibition explores cultural and natural responses to life and death and asks big questions around the inevitability of dying, considers how it is processed and received cross-culturally, and addresses larger than life questions that occupy the human mind.
Textile Museum of Canada
Exhibition: Gathering *New Rotation*
This installation presents more than 40 pieces from the museum’s permanent collection of over 15,000 objects from around the world.
The exhibit explores migration and diaspora, the quest for familiarity in domestic and familial life, the reclamation of ancestral traditions through contemporary art, and the relationship between textiles and the environment.
*While the pass offers general admission to the museum, some exhibits may require an additional purchase to access.
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