Museum and Exhibit Virtual Tour and Review: Royal Ontario Museum
For the weekend of my birthday (despite really wanting it on my birthday), me and my wonderful mother headed to my stomping grounds, the Royal Ontario Museum in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The whole museum encompasses a whole lot of subjects, from ancient and world cultures, canadian history and Indigenous Cultures of it, ecosystems and animals (they have a cool walkthrough bat cave diorama for instance), and geology. However, what we're here to discuss is its palaeontology galleries. Respectively known as the James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs and Reed Gallery of the Age of Mammals, these two opened as part of a 2007 renovation that added the iconic "crystals" that look out onto the streets. Anytime I passed by them being driven by since I was a kid, I always tried to get a glimpse of the dinosaur skeletons through the glass, and begged my parents for a visit. But enough nostalgic waxing. Let's walk through the ROM's prehistoric gal...