Anyone entering Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, for the first or the hundredth time, who doesn’t say “wow” isn’t paying attention.

Part of the University of Toronto, the library holds regular exhibitions in a gallery space on the main floor. The current exhibition, The Lumiere Press Archives: Photography and the Fine Press, showcases the work of Canadian photographer Michael Torosian, the founder of Toronto-based Lumiere Press, publishers of limited edition books on photography.

One thing I’m coming to recognize from all my museum visits this year is how everything connects, in some way or other, and eventually. Mr. Torosian composes the text of his books by hand in lead – as demonstrated to me a few weeks ago on the printing press at Black Creek Pioneer Village. One of the Lumiere Press books on display was Residual Landscapes: Studies of Industrial Transfiguration (2001) by photographer Edward Burtynsky, whose work I enjoyed at the Cleveland Museum of Art. And so on.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is museum no. 42 in my #100museums challenge (see 100 Museums Challenge).