Join us for this week`s last Soccer Sunday on July 19! ⚽

👟 Last chance to see soccer cleats worn by Richie Laryea, and shoes signed by Jonathan David and Neymar Jr.
👠 Experience the colour and joy of Indian folk dance with a vibrant performance by Shivani Joshi and her talented dance troupe
⚽ All day: Create your own soccer themed craft station and free-play Foosball tables

Soccer Sundays are generously supported by the City of Toronto Community Celebration Support Fund. ...

Join Saulteaux/Métis educator and memory activist Sam Howden and settler scholar and artist Andrew Lochhead on a guided walk, bringing the idea of Land Acknowledgements out of the Bata Shoe Museum’s walls and onto the Land itself, in the area currently known as The Annex this August.

📅 Sunday, August 9 and Sunday, August 16 from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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SOCCER SUNDAYS: Sunday, July 5

🩰 Join us at 1:00 pm for a vibrant performance of Mexican Folk Ballet showcasing the rich regional traditions of Mexico through colourful costumes, lively music, and dynamic choreography.
⚽ At 3:00 pm, dive into the story behind the sport with an engaging presentation tracing soccer’s origins, evolution, and worldwide influence.
👟 All day: You can create your own soccer themed craft station and free-play Foosball tables

Don`t forget to check out our Soccer Spotlight display in our Behind the Scenes gallery including loans from the Toronto FC, PUMA, and ADIDAS ⚽

Soccer Sundays are generously supported by the City of Toronto Community Celebration Support Fund. ...

Puma was founded by Rudolf Dassler in 1948. Puma’s first football boot, the 1950s ATOM, was very successful, but it was the launch of the SUPER ATOM in 1952 that changed the game. In collaboration with West Germany’s national soccer coach, Sepp Herberger, Puma developed the world’s first soccer boot with screw-in studs.

As part of our Soccer Spotlight, we have a pair of the 1952 Puma Super Atom (replicas from 1996), on loan from the Puma Archives on view until July 19 ⚽👟 ...

Barry Ace’s sculptural assemblage, Gwiiwzens Dreamed of Spirit Horses, featuring his signature electronic component and glass bead medicine flower motifs, draws parallels to the colonial histories of Canada through material and metaphor. The Ojibwe Spirit Horse, also known as the Lac La Croix Pony, was driven to the point of extinction. In 1977 the four remaining mares were bred with Spanish Mustang stallions to preserve this critically endangered breed. The work consists of a pair of gifted children’s cowboy boots that rest on top of two vintage stylized galloping silver horse cobbler shoe rests. Wire trail dusters extend out from the back of the boots referencing the erasure of the Ojibwe Spirit Horse and fostering public awareness of the brutal colonial history that attempted to eradicate them. The title of the work implies an element of optimism for the future, as Gwiiwzens (the young boy) dreamed of the return of these Spirit Horses. Barry Ace is a multidisciplinary Odawa artist currently living in Ottawa. He is a member of M’Chigeeng (pronounced: She-ging) First Nation from Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada.

On view in our Rough & Ready: A History of the Cowboy Boot exhibition. ...