When you have seen all the tourist attractions of downtown Toronto , you can cruise towards the Toronto Islands , which is the real hub of all tourism related activities in Toronto . Here, you can enjoy a lot of activities, such as having a leisurely stroll in the parks, soaking in the sun at the beaches, having a variety of thrilling amusement rides, chowing delicious delicacies at eateries, having a boat ride, etc. You can reach the Toronto Islands after boarding a ferry from the downtown Toronto 's Harbor front Center, which is the center of all kinds of nautical adventures in Toronto . This short ferry ride is just the beginning of an enjoyable day on the Toronto Island . Once on the island, you can visit the Pier Museum that is about 3.5 km away from Four Seasons Hotel Toronto . This extraordinary and relatively new museum, located in the neighborhood of Toronto 's popular Harbor front, is accommodated in a 1930s shipping warehouse. It was opened for the public in July 1998 and strives to preserve the history of Toronto Bay with the help of interactive exhibits. This museum also arranges live shows of traditional boat-making craft. You can rent a handmade boat here or if you are eager to learn the craft of wooden boat making, you can join the class.
Toronto boasts of some of the best museums and art galleries in Canada . For the art lovers, the most fascinating place is the Power Plant that is located at a distance of 1.2 km from Soho Metropolitan Hotel on the waterfront. This public art gallery is famous for the expression of contemporary art through different media, such as sculpture, installations, painting, film, video and performance art. It also arranges lectures and other events related to contemporary art all the year round and you can also watch videotaped interviews of artists whose exhibits are on display. The general public can visit this art gallery on Wednesday evenings from 5 to 8 p.m. for free. Besides admiring the displays, they can also attend other programs like a curator's tour, a lecture by an artist, youth events or an informative and enjoyable tour of the exhibitions guided by the Animator Staff.
The Royal Ontario Museum is the largest Canadian art museum with almost six million art pieces. Ever since it opened in 1914, it instantly became the favorite destination of adults and children alike. Within the premises of this museum, there are 40 galleries devoted to pursuits in the fields of art, natural science and archaeology. Some of the most popular exhibits of this museum are the Egyptian mummies, the dinosaur gallery, where the skeletons of thirteen dinosaurs are placed in a stimulated representation of their natural environment and the unique and creepy Bat Cave . You can also admire the beauty and enormity of four huge carved totem poles that are placed in the heart of the stairwells. The tallest among them measures 24.5 meters (80 ft. 6 in.). The Biodiversity gallery showcases the interdependence between the humans, animals and plants. At present, in spite of some expansion works that are supposed to be completed by late 2005, you can enjoy its fabulous exhibits and activities, although it may affect access to some galleries.
If you take the University to Dundas Street , you will come across the Art Gallery of Ontario. It is stationed about 0.4 miles away from The Metropolitan Hotel Toronto . It is listed as one of the top ten art museums of North America . Its exhibits include the world's biggest Henry Moore sculptures collection, prominent works of important Canadian artists and the stalwarts in the field of art like Chardin, Matisse, Picasso, de Kooning, Renoir, Rembrandt, Hals, Reynolds, Degas, Rodin, Rothko, Oldenburg , Van Dyck, Hogarth, and many more. On Sundays, you can also visit the Anne Tannenbaum Gallery School for understanding printmaking, sculpting and painting, or explore the Grange, a Georgian-style house constructed in 1817-18 that stands in its neighborhood. Toronto is equally famous for its theatre shows. The Theatre District of Toronto is nestled in the center of downtown. Located at the Bloor and University Streets only three blocks away from Sutton Place Hotel to north of downtown.
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