A Tour of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto

From: All Things Considered (NPR) | Date: February 24, 1996 | Copyright information

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Jacki Lyden takes a tour of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto. The museum houses over 10,000 shoes, including Egyptian shoes that are 5,000 years old. The founder says shoes hold the key to human identity.

JACKI LYDEN, Host: The Bata Shoe Museum [sp], which recently opened in Toronto, Canada, is the only one of its kind in North America. Designed to look like an avant-garde shoe box, it houses 10,000 pairs of shoes, shoes as surprising and intimate in their details as if they were the discovered pages of Shakespearian sonnets.

Edward Mader [sp], the museum's director, ...

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