Spadina Museum: Historic House & Gardens
Animating Historic Sites - Grant applications now open!
Toronto Arts Council has partnered with City of Toronto Museums & Heritage Services to provide opportunities for artists to re-imagine and animate six of our historic sites through engagement with their histories, local contexts, and communities. Spadina Museum Site Tour: Monday, June 20, 10am - Click here for details.
It was the time of the Charleston craze, tabloid journalism, new technology and more - and it can all be seen, heard, felt and lived at Spadina Museum - Toronto's only museum to represent the 1920s and 30s, a transformative period that dramatically changed the City.
For over a century, Spadina was home to three generations of the Austin family. Opened in 1984, it is one of 10 historic sites operated by the City of Toronto. Spadina Museum completed an extensive interior restoration in 2010, bringing the house back into the twentieth century. Visitors may view what the house looked like during those years through artifacts, furnishings and reproduced and original decor or explore the estate's six acres of restored 1905 gardens.
Today, Spadina Museum interprets the interwar period through a rich slate of guided tours, school programs, special events, changing exhibits, lectures and workshops. Spadina Museum is one of 10 historic museums operated by the City of Toronto. Toronto's Historic Sites engage visitors, inspire passion, challenge ideas and connect the past to the present.
