Royal Ontario Museum
this fabulous museum of world culture and
natural history is situated in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and
began in 1912, being under the control of the University of
Toronto until 1968 when it would become its own entity, housing
over six million objects and forty galleries, with outstanding
collections of Canadian history, dinosaurs, East Asian art,
European history and Near Eastern and African art. It is also
famous for its excellent collection of fossils from the Burgess
Shale that contains over 150,000 specimens. Originally, there
were only five galleries that housed materials that pertained to
the fields of zoology, archaeology, paleontology, geology and
mineralogy; with the natural history galleries sitting on the
second floor with magnificent collections of samples and
collections from various animals that were acquired from around
the world. Their spectacular world culture galleries house the
Chinese galleries, the Gallery of Korea, the CIBC Discovery
gallery, the Patricia Harris gallery of Costumes and Textiles,
the Gallery of Africa, the Prince Takamado Gallery of Japan, the
Gallery of the Bronze Age Aegean, the Sir Christopher Ondaatje
South Asian gallery and the Wirth Gallery of the Middle East.
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