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good selection of animals, every year, highlighting the
HIDDEN GEM including such Canadian continuum of artistic traditions
Riverdale Farm species as moose, caribou, from early Muslim civilizations
In the Toronto neighbor­ and grizzly bear. There is also to the present day.
hood of Cabbagetown a polar bear enclosure. Splash Designed by Japanese
lies Riverdale Farm. This Island provides a spot for architect Fumihiko Maki, the
century­old 7­acre (3­ha) young visitors to cool off in museum shares a beautiful
working farm is free the water, amid walrus and site, complete with a land-
and open to the public beaver sculptures. scaped park and formal
EXPERIENCE Toronto on site, many of which 25 "'-\= Toronto, designed by Charles
all year. There are lots of
garden, with the Ismaili Centre,
friendly farm animals
Correa. Admission to the
can be petted and fed.
Aga Khan Museum is free
Aga Khan Museum
from 4pm on Wednesdays.
Collection and architecture
 F1 ⌂77 Wynford Dr

24 "'\-=
Tuesday to Sunday, and
Flemingdon Park east to
Toronto Zoo  Eglinton @ 100 tours are offered from
garden tours are usually
Wynford Dr # 10am–6pm
 F1 ⌂361A Old Finch Ave, Tue–Sun (to 8pm Wed) offered at scheduled times.

Scarborough  Kennedy ∑ agakhanmuseum.org
@ 86A (weekdays all year
plus weekends in summer) The first North American 26 "\-=
# Times vary, check museum dedicated to the arts Ontario Science
website ∑ torontozoo.com of Muslim civilization, the Aga Centre
Khan Museum connects visual
Toronto has one of the world’s and live arts from the Iberian  F1 ⌂770 Don Mills Rd

best zoos, which occupies a Peninsula to China through  Eglinton or Pape
large slice of the Rouge exhibitions, education @ Eglinton 100 or Don Mills
River Valley. The animals are programs, and a full roster of 25 # 10am–4pm Mon–Fri,
grouped according to their performances in its 350-seat 10am–7pm Sat, 10am–5pm
natural habitats, both outside, auditorium. The museum’s Sun ∑ ontarioscience
amid the mixed forest and main floor includes a Persian- centre.ca
flatlands of the river valley, style salon and rotating
and inside large, climate- displays of the permanent One of Toronto’s most popular
controlled pavilions. collection, whose exquisite sights, the Ontario Science
Visitors can tour the zoo by manuscripts, drawings, Centre attracts children in
choosing one of the marked paintings, decorated ceramics, droves. They come for the
trails, or hop aboard the Zoo- metalwork, and architectural center’s interactive displays
mobile, a 30-minute ride with ornamentation date from the and hands-on exhibits
commentary that gives an 8th to the 19th centuries. Four exploring and investigating
excellent overview. It takes temporary exhibitions are all manner of phenomena,
about four hours to see a displayed on the second floor from the solar system to the

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