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East-facing façade of the Royal Ontario Museum, built in 1933.

The Royal Ontario Museum or ROM, is a major museum for culture and natural history in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

It is the largest museum in Canada and fifth largest in North America. It has more than six million things on display and over 40 galleries. It has notable collections of dinosaurs, Near Eastern and African art, East Asian art, European history, and Canadian history.

Images for kids

The Royal Ontario Museum, circa 1930s
The McLaughlin Planetarium next to the museum. The planetarium was operated by the museum from 1968 to 2009.
The 1914 Italianate-Neo-Romanesque original building in 1922
The mosaic ceiling of the rotunda is covered predominantly in gold back-painted glass tiles
The eastern entrance of the museum
The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal
Hyacinth Gloria Chen Crystal Court is a three-storey high atrium inside The Crystal. A replica skeleton of Futalognkosaurus is mounted at the court.
Used as the museum's lobby, the Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery showcases an assortment of items from the museum's collection.
The Patricia Harris Gallery of Costumes and Textiles holds around 200 artifacts from the museum's textile and costume collection.
The second floor of the museum contains collections and samples of various animals past and present.
The museum has a large collection of birds from past centuries for viewing.
The world's largest faceted cerussite, the Light of the Desert, on display at the Teck Suite of Galleries.
The ROM has a collection of fossils from the Jurassic period to the Cenozoic era. One of the specimens in the background is a Lambeosaurus.
Exhibits at the Shreyas and Mina Ajmera Gallery of Africa, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, one of several world culture galleries at the museum.
The museum is home to an extensive collection of Roman artifacts.
The Gallery of Africa: Egypt includes a number of cartonnages.
Canoes used by the First Nations at The Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples.
Works on exhibit in the Bishop White Gallery of Chinese Temple Art
A Buddhist reliquary śarīra casket at the Gallery of Korea, the only permanent gallery of Korean art in Canada.
Europe Evolution of Style
The Wirth Gallery of the Middle East explores civilizations from the Palaeolithic Age to 1900 AD found within the Fertile Crescent.
An elevator with bilingual English/French signage at the museum.

See also

In Spanish: Museo Real de Ontario para niños

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