The Art Gallery of Ontario wraps a blue titanium facade around a Georgian house from 1818, one of Toronto's oldest surviving buildings, willed to the museum by its last family owner. The current design, from 2008, is by Frank Gehry, who grew up nearby before his family left for California in 1947, making the rebuild a homecoming.
Inside sits the world's largest collection of Henry Moore sculptures, over 900 pieces, a bond begun in the 1960s when Toronto's mayor privately raised funds to buy Moore's The Archer rather than lose it. One bronze, Large Two Forms, guarded a street corner for 40 years before moving into Grange Park in 2017. The museum's first show, in 1918, introduced the Group of Seven.
VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours start here, tracing a walk through Chinatown into Kensington Market, threading Georgian brick, titanium curves and immigrant streets through one eclectic corner of the city.