Private Gardiner Museum Tour

It is a private tour of 3 hours to the Gardiner Museum at 111 Queen's Park, with a private vehicle and a licensed, insured driver-guide who collects your group anywhere in the Greater Toronto Area. The vehicle and driver-guide are for your group only; the museum is open to the public. It costs US$1,699 in total for 1 to 4 guests, with tolls, parking and fuel included, and museum admission is confirmed when you book.

It costs US$1,699 in total for 1 to 4 guests, in US dollars with no added taxes. Prices are totals for the whole group, not per person: US$1,699 for 1 to 4 guests, US$1,999 for 5 to 6, US$2,499 for 7 to 10, US$2,999 for 11 to 14, US$3,499 for 15 to 28, US$3,999 for 29 to 34 and US$4,499 for 35 to 56 guests. Each price covers the 3-hour tour with all tolls, parking and fuel; gratuities are not included, and museum admission is confirmed when you book.

The price is the total for one private tour of 3 hours for your group. It covers a private vehicle with a licensed, insured driver-guide, door-to-door pickup and drop-off in the Greater Toronto Area, and all tolls, parking and fuel. It does not cover gratuities, meals and snacks, museum admission unless we confirm it when you book, a separate tour guide, time beyond the 3 hours or pickup outside the GTA.

The tour price is the vehicle and driver-guide for your group, and we confirm when you book whether museum admission is covered. The museum sets its own admission. Its hours page says admission is free on Wednesdays after 4 pm, but its visitor-guide page says half-price from 4 to 9 pm, so confirm on the day. It also lists free entry for visitors 18 and under, students with a valid ID, Indigenous people and Gardiner Friends or Annual Pass holders (checked 29 October 2026).

The tour is planned as 3 hours, and time beyond that is charged additionally; we confirm the rate by email. The Gardiner Museum publishes no recommended visit length on the pages we read, so this page does not split the 3 hours between travel and time inside. The booking calendar offers hourly start times from 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM, but the museum opens at 10 am, so we confirm a start time that fits its hours by email rather than promising the hour you choose.

One driver-guide drives the vehicle and guides your day; a separate tour guide is not included and can be added at extra cost. This page does not describe the driver-guide as a museum specialist, so ask us if that matters to you. The museum runs a free highlights tour at 2 pm daily, subject to change, and offers groups a 45-minute educator-led private tour, booked with the museum and not part of this price unless we confirm it (checked 29 October 2026).

The vehicle and the driver-guide are for your group only. The Gardiner Museum is open to the public during its opening hours, so your group shares the galleries with other visitors; no private opening or after-hours access is part of the tour as described here. If you want the museum's own private educator tour for your group, ask us how it fits and book it through the museum.

Pickup is at a hotel, home or airport anywhere in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), door to door, and it is included in the price. The GTA means the City of Toronto and the regions of Durham, Halton, Peel and York. Pickup outside the GTA costs extra, so request a custom quote. Drop-off is arranged with you. Add your address to the quote form on this page or email it to info@voyzo.com, and we email your exact pickup time once your booking is confirmed.

The Gardiner Museum is at 111 Queen's Park, Toronto, M5S 2C7, in the Midtown area that Destination Toronto describes as including Yorkville, the Annex and Queen's Park. The museum's pages give no drop-off, parking or transit directions (checked 29 October 2026), so we confirm by email where the vehicle sets your group down. Parking for the vehicle is included in the tour price, so you do not arrange it.

The museum says its main entrance is fully accessible with ramps, with a wheelchair-accessible ramp at the south end of the Museum Plaza and elevators to all floors. It lists manual wheelchairs, chairs with arms and benches in the galleries, and service animals welcome (checked 29 October 2026). This page does not state a wheelchair-accessible vehicle for the tour, so tell us about any mobility needs before you book and we confirm what can be arranged.

The museum admits children: it lists free admission for visitors 18 and under, asks that visitors under 12 are accompanied by an adult, and allows only strollers and front-facing baby carriers in the galleries (checked 29 October 2026). It publishes no recommended age. Tell us your children's ages when you book, and we confirm the arrangements for the vehicle, including child seats, by email.

The museum says all backpacks must be checked and that bags larger than 12 x 16 x 5 inches and full-size umbrellas are not permitted in its permanent collection and special exhibition galleries; complimentary lockers are on the ground floor. Photography and video without flash are allowed for personal, non-commercial use unless signs say otherwise, but tripods, selfie sticks and live-streaming are not. Eating and drinking are not permitted except in designated areas, and food service is at Clay Restaurant on the 3rd floor (checked 29 October 2026).

The museum says its collection holds more than 5,000 objects. Its founding collection was earthenwares, including ancient American ceramics (its collections page now calls this area Ancestral Abiayala), Italian Renaissance maiolica and English delftware, plus 18th-century European porcelain, later widened to creamware, French faience, 19th-century ceramics and Asian, modern and contemporary ceramics with a focus on Canadian work. Its visitor guide says the permanent galleries, on two floors, hold over 2,000 ceramic objects (checked 29 October 2026).

It depends on your interests, and we do not rank museums. Destination Toronto describes the Gardiner as a small specialty museum dedicated to clay and ceramics, and the museum calls itself one of the only museums in the world dedicated to ceramics. The tour suits visitors who want ceramics and decorative arts, and a group that wants door-to-door transport, rather than a general museum such as the Royal Ontario Museum.

On 29 October 2026 the museum listed Magnus Hara: The Light of Day (to 15 November 2026), After the Island: Caribbean Canadian Ceramics (9 October 2026 to 25 April 2027) and In Search of Imperfection (to 7 March 2027), with Adaptive Ceramic Histories upcoming from 20 November 2026. The visit is indoors at one museum and its pages list no winter closure; what changes through the season is its exhibitions, and we confirm its hours for your date.

The booking calendar sells group totals for 1 to 56 guests, and the vehicle is matched to your group size. The Gardiner Museum asks groups of 10 or more to pre-register and offers them a special admission rate (checked 29 October 2026), so give us your final group size when you book. We then confirm how the visit is arranged for a larger group.

Ask us. This tour is planned around the Gardiner Museum, and time beyond the 3 hours is charged additionally. The Royal Ontario Museum is a separate museum at 100 Queen's Park with its own ticket, and Voyzo also runs a separate private Royal Ontario Museum tour. Tell us what you want in the quote form on this page, and we confirm by email what fits and the total.

You can cancel up to 24 hours before your tour date. A cancellation made less than 24 hours before your tour date is not refunded. Your booking confirmation carries the cancellation terms that apply, and section 7 of our Terms and Conditions covers cancellations. To cancel or change your date, email info@voyzo.com before the 24-hour cutoff; we will try to reschedule, subject to availability.

Booking is a request: pick your group size, a date and a preferred start time in the calendar, then press its “Book now” button. A booking needs at least 24 hours' notice, and nothing is confirmed until we confirm availability by email. After that we send your exact pickup time and your tour details. For a longer tour, another stop or more than 56 guests, use the quote form on this page.