If anyone wants to visit a physical shoe museum, there's one in Toronto, Canada:

* https://batashoemuseum.ca

> As of 2018, the museum's permanent collection includes over 13,000 shoes, and other footwear related items dating back 4,500 years; providing the museum with the largest collection of footwear in the world. Items in the museum's collection are either held in storage, or placed on display in its permanent exhibition. The museum also hosts and organizes a number of temporary and travelling exhibitions, and outreach programs.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bata_Shoe_Museum

As it happens, this morning I came across an LLM specifically designed to describe shoes: https://ollama.com/injoon5/shoe-explainer

Coincidence?

Just today I thought about a shoe with four feet on it that you stand on, and kinda have to push yourself forward with. Not even as a fashion statement but as a bit of functional silliness.

As it turns out, "shoe with four feet under it" is impossible to explain to search engines.

Shoeseum