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Transcript: A Tour of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- February 24, 1996
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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, took us around, starting
with the most mysterious sanctum sanctorum, the museum's ...