Spadina Museum

The Spadina museum and garden is a beautiful old home.

The outside gardens are open to the public while the inside I believe costs around 8 dollars a person.  Its worth the investment if you enjoy touring old homes.  The interior of the home is more interesting than Casa Loma, which is directly across the street.  This home contains all its original furnishings (art and furniture included). The Austin family lived in this home from 1866 -1980s when the family sold the property to the city of Toronto.  They decorated the home with its furniture from the 1920s, reportedly because they had the most information about the floor plans for this time period.

The inside of the home has dim lighting but it is beautiful.  The camera I am using does not take great photos in dim lighting and I did not want to flash.  So you are going to mostly have to take my word for it.  If you like art, furniture, and history you'll love this museum.  I saw my first gasalier in this home and then correctly identified one later in another tour of a historic home I will discuss later, so I am learning about something while touring Canada's culture.  I give this museum a 4/5 mostly because of the quality of collections inside the museum.

This is the gasalier which was converted to electricity because it is a firehazard but its a beautiful piece of work and easy to imagine back in the day.