Torontos famous Bata Shoe Museum welcomed its one-millionth visitor this week – an overjoyed couple from Australia.

Founder of the world-famous museum, Sonja Bata, welcomed the pair and awarded them with lifelong membership, a large gift basket and some heely great shoe vouchers, thaindian.com reported

Ms Bata said: “We are extremely excited to be reaching this wonderful milestone. This success speaks volumes for the Bata State Museums contribution to Toronto and other countries.”

There are more than 1,000 pairs of rare shoes exhibited at the museum, which the Bata family has been collecting since the 1940s.

Ms Bata and her husband, who recently passed away aged 93, established the museum in 1979 to house their impressive collection.

Chinese shoes especially for bound feet, ancient Egyptian sandals, glamorous platforms and clogs all feature in the displays.

Those who cannot make it as far as Toronto to visit the museum may be enticed by Somersets own shoe museum, which is free to enter and features footwear from Roman times to the present.

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