The Museum's Permanent Collection

storage area for the Bata Shoe Museum's collection

The collection in storage

The Museum's collection has grown over the years and now numbers over 12,500 artifacts: far too many to be all on display at once! In order to highlight different aspects of the collection, we offer three time-limited changing exhibitions as well as one semi-permanent exhibition.

The EXHIBITIONS section will show you what's on currently on view.

small signature image of online exhibitions Many items from our collections are also viewable in the online exhibitions All About Shoes and On Canadian Ground.


The Museum houses artifacts from many geographic areas, time periods and cultural groups, including:

Footwear images are not to scale. Shoes shown in the Collections section may not be on display.


Further information about the Museum's permanent collection is available in the Media Room.