Museum Shop

 

BSM Shop

 
Gift with Purchase ~ spend $60 (before taxes) and receive a set of 3 Boxed Shoe Rescue Wipes. Offer valid in museum shop only.

Make sure you leave some time to browse in our Museum Shop!  Filled with a selection of thoughtfully-chosen items inspired by the Bata Shoe Museum’s collection and exhibitions, the shop has an ever-changing selection of books, ornaments, gifts, paper goods and more!

Opening hours for the shop are the same as those for the Museum or shop online at shop.batashoemuseum.ca

Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe

By Elizabeth Semmelhack

This book does reproduce some wondrous shoes by top designers. But its focus lies outside the kingdom of fashion, in the lowly outpost of social history, where shoes generally appear only as modest, utilitarian artifacts. Here, the two worlds are shown to be intimately connected. Drawing on historical sources, paintings and prints, this volume explores how and why shoes or boots with high heels came into common use throughout the last five centuries. The result? A book on shoes unlike any other. It considers the function of high heels in daily life, in the production of class and gender, and in the staging of erotic fantasy, illustrated through stunning shoes from the collection of the Bata Shoe Museum

On a Pedestal

by Elizabeth Semmelhack

This book was published in conjunction with the launch of the Museum’s ground-breaking exhibition On Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels, which included an in-depth examination of chopines, one of the most unusual forms of footwear ever worn in Western dress. Written by the Bata Shoe Museum’s senior curator Elizabeth Semmelhack, it explores the political and socio-economic structure of 15th – 16th century Europe and the intrinsic link between textiles and chopines.

Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels

By Elizabeth Semmelhack

This is the third book in a series that takes an in-depth look at the history of elevating shoes in Western dress. For many people the high heel is an icon of femininity but it hasn't always been this way. This book traces the long history of men in heels from the heels invention in Western Asia as a form of equestrian footwear and its adoption by men in the early 17th century to the feminization of the heel over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries leading to to our current cultural sensitivity about men in heels.

The Bata Shoe Museum

Sonja Bata's Vision, Raymond Moriyama's Design

Details the planning and construction of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto

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