In Thorncliffe Park, St. Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral is the place to visit
Museums or galleries make up 35 of the 44 places on the list. We list one place to visit inside Thorncliffe Park’s neighbourhood outline and 43 within 5 km of its edge. A total of 281.4M visitors went to Royal Ontario Museum in 2025. Allow a day for CN Tower, 7.8 km off.
Thorncliffe Park’s big names
Big drawMuseumRoyal Ontario Museum4.9 km outside town, to the southwest · 281.4M visitors a year (2025)
Art galleryThe Aga Khan Museum1.5 km outside town, to the north
Historic houseCasa Loma4.9 km outside town, to the southwest
MuseumOntario Science Centre400 m outside town, to the north
MuseumGardiner Museum4.8 km outside town, to the southwestEach has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
Mapped around Thorncliffe Park
Archives of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary marks the outer edge, 6.9 km away.
The dashed line is Thorncliffe Park’s neighbourhood outline; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · Statistics Canada 2021 outline
What you can see
Green: inside Thorncliffe Park. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
Place by place
In town there is one, and the list adds 43 more within 5 km of its edge.
Royal Ontario Museum
Museum of world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Aga Khan Museum
Museum dedicated to Islamic history, artifacts and art pieces in Toronto, Canada.
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20TD Gallery
Art gallery in the Toronto Reference Library in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The one inside Thorncliffe Park comes first, then the places within 5 km, close and well known first. Provincial and city parks are on the Outdoors page instead.
Historic places in Thorncliffe Park → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Thorncliffe Park →
Beyond the town
Big drawAttractionCN Tower7.8 km south · 1.5M visitors a year
Big drawArt galleryArt Gallery of Ontario6.9 km southwest · 873K visitors a year (2016)
MuseumBata Shoe Museum6.2 km southwest
CathedralSt. Michael's Cathedral6.2 km south
MuseumDesign Exchange7 km south · 225K visitors a year
GardenQueen's Park6 km southwestArt galleryArt galleryThe Power Plant8.1 km south · 130K visitors a year
Big drawTheme parkCanada's Wonderland23 km northwest · 3.2M visitors a year (2025)
GardenHigh Park12 km southwest
ZooToronto Zoo19 km northeast
MuseumFort York8.8 km south
Theme parkOntario Place10 km southwestPlaces well known beyond Thorncliffe Park (Wikipedia articles in several languages, published visitor counts, or a Parks Canada property), close and famous first. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the town.
Thorncliffe Park: questions and answers
Does Thorncliffe Park have a museum?
Look at The Aga Khan Museum, Ontario Science Centre and Gardiner Museum, in Thorncliffe Park or within 5 km.
Is there a Parks Canada property near Thorncliffe Park?
Not within 5 km of Thorncliffe Park: none is on our list.
What are the best-known days out near Thorncliffe Park?
For a day out within 40 km: Art Gallery of Ontario (6.9 km), Bata Shoe Museum (6.2 km), St. Michael's Cathedral (6.2 km), Design Exchange (7 km).
How is this list made?
Four open sources feed it (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, ODCAF and the federal and Québec heritage registers), merged so each place appears once. Forts, houses, lighthouses and churches stay only with a sign they are open to visitors, and businesses such as hotels, restaurants and tour operators are left out. Every place is tied to the town by its 2021 outline, or by lying within 5 km of it.
Places to visit: Canada publishes no open tourism list, so this one is assembled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), Wikidata (CC0), Statistics Canada’s ODCAF museums and galleries (2020, Open Government Licence – Canada), the federal and Québec heritage registers and CPCAD’s national parks, and it reflects what mappers and editors have recorded. Forts, houses, lighthouses and churches count only with a sign that visitors are welcome. Places sit in each town’s 2021 census outline; visitor counts are Wikidata’s latest, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (22)
- Royal Ontario Museum: Staka, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- The Aga Khan Museum: JohnOyston, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Casa Loma: Evelyncyuzu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ontario Science Centre: BuBZ at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gardiner Museum: Aviad2001, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Allan Gardens: Diego Silvestre from Sao Paulo, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Toronto Botanical Garden: CeciliaPang, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Spadina: rhdouglas from Kitchener, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edwards Gardens: Sikander Iqbal, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Canadian Language Museum: Vlad Litvinov from Toronto, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- TD Gallery: OhanaUnited Talk page, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- CN Tower: Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Art Gallery of Ontario: Owen Byrne from Ottawa, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bata Shoe Museum: Gisling, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St. Michael's Cathedral: Oleg Yunakov, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Design Exchange: nodomain.cc, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Queen's Park: Jeff Hitchcock from Seattle, WA, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Canada's Wonderland: Mathew Ingram, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- High Park: Chensiyuan at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Toronto Zoo: Maelwys at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Fort York: Secondarywaltz, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ontario Place: The original uploader was IDuke at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).