Willner Madge Dawn of Life Gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum: Review
After a week-long delay, I finally went to the Royal Ontario Museum to visit a new exhibit, once on Dec. 12 and the next on 19th. While the museum already has galleries for fossil fauna of the Mesozoic era and the Cenozoic era, for the longest time it had no gallery for the Paleozoic before either of them. Shame, as the museum has a pretty good collection, especially from the Burgess Shale in BC, easily one of the most iconic fossil deposits ever. Fortunately, over the course of the last decade the ROM has worked to rectify this. Taking an old event space on the second floor, it has turned it into the Willner Madge Dawn of Life Gallery . this is what it was before The exhibit starts off with a round space introducing the concepts of the exhibit, with at its center a skull of the armoured fish Dunkleosteus and other fossils along the walls, such as trilobites, ancient plants, and most notably on the wall a giant cast of the floor of Newfoundland's Mistaken Point, and highlighting t...