Bata Shoe Museum is North America’s only museum dedicated to exploring the history and cultural significance of footwear. Regularly displaying over a thousand shoes, chosen from a collection of nearly 15,000 artifacts that date back more than 4,500 years, the BSM always has something new to experience. Currently on view: Dressed to Impress: Footwear and Consumerism in the 1980s, In Bloom: Flowers and Footwear, Obsessed: How Shoes Became Objects of Desire, and All About Shoes: Footwear Through the Ages.