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When most people think about museums, they think about exquisite paintings, historic sculptures and school trips accompanied by chaperones and seat belt-deprived yellow buses.
But there's one museum in particular that focuses in on the history of shoes. The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto has been documenting and displaying the evolution of footwear since its doors opened in 1995.
It wasn't until 2010 that senior curator Elizabeth Semmelhack decided that it was time to bring sneakers into the fold.
What transpired from that original idea was a traveling exhibition called "The Rise of Sneaker Culture." This in-depth traveling display tapped into the core of what makes sneakers such an important part of today's society.
Why sneakers? For starters, the industry rakes in more than $55 billion a year in international revenue, per Matt Powell of Forbes. After starting off in Drake's home city of Toronto, the display took up residency in Brooklyn, New York, at the world famous Brooklyn Museum. That's where it will stay until October 4 of this year.
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