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 Offering assorted hands-on galleries, activities for youngsters, and a multidisciplinary vocation, the Royal Ontario Museum – or the ROM as locals call it – truly offers new worlds to explore. Dedicated to the histories of nature and culture, the ROM is Canada’s biggest museum and one of its most varied.
Every year, nearly three-quarters of a million visitors pass through ROM’s turnstiles to visit spectacular galleries, temporary exhibitions and educational programs, including courses, workshops, tours, video presentations and lectures. There’s even a high-end restaurant and other
on-site food services.
The ROM’s other attractions include one of the world’s finest collections of Chinese art. Housed in two galleries, the display includes enormous paintings, 800-year-old Buddhist sculptures, carved figures, fine jade and
war technology. The Ancient Egypt Gallery equally dazzles with priceless Egyptian artifacts, including jewelry, coffins and sculptures. ROM also has a fine permanent collection of early Canadian art, as well as works by great
artists from around the world.
A major research institution, ROM’s state-of-the-art Inco Limited Gallery of Earth Sciences offers an interactive display of the powerful forces that alter the earth, and a large collection of gold samples and gemstones. Meanwhile, a hands-on biodiversity display explores the living things on our planet.
Of course, families visit the ROM time and again just to see the Dinosaurs Gallery and its 13 real dinosaur skeletons (including the savage, carnivorous Albertosaurus, and Parasaurolophus, a rare duckbilled dinosaur). Down the hall, the Discover Gallery boasts a hands-on “discovery zone” where visitors are encouraged to touch museum objects, don a suit of armor and dig for fossils.
The ROM is centrally located, on the subway line (at the Museum stop) and just off the fashionable shopping district of Bloor Street West. Discount parking available at The Parking Authority of Toronto lot on Bedford Road, north of Bloor Street, one block west of Avenue Road. |
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