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Over 800 high-tech, interactive exhibits within 11 specially themed exhibition halls aim to make science fun and fascinating. Youthful visitors can navigate their way in a rocket chair, climb the rockwall, touch a tornado, and explore the hair-raising effects of electricity (see Ontario Science Centre).

Known for its boundary-pushing exhibitions of contemporary Canadian and international art, this edgy, non-collecting gallery features rotating shows of consistently high quality. If the art sometimes mystifies visitors, at least the building is instantly recognizable: a brick smokestack tops the 1920s converted power station (see Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery).

Next door to a refinery, it tells the history of sugar production.

Canada’s foremost museum offers an excellent balance of art, archeology, science, and nature, and has more than six million artifacts in its collections (see Royal Ontario Museum).

A permanent collection of over 10,000 fabrics, quilts, ceremonial cloths, and carpets from around the world are housed in this small but excellent museum. Temporary exhibitions round out the historical artifacts with contemporary works.

As Inuit tool makers turned their skills to sculpting, the culture experienced a renaissance, this time in artistic achievement. Most of the 200 pieces in this gallery specializing in postwar Inuit sculpture are carved soapstone, each evocative of the landscape, culture, and legends of the indigenous people of Canada’s harsh Arctic region. The gallery’s design echoes that of the TD Bank Tower, by renowned modernist architect Mies van der Rohe (see Toronto Dominion Gallery of Inuit Art).

Interactive displays, fascinating police artifacts, and exhibits chronicling infamous crimes.

A historic museum and working post office (see Toronto’s First Post Office).

Works by Picasso and Matisse, tucked in University College.

World-class collection of works by international contemporary artists.