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If you’re interested in looking at some of the world’s most prized collections, the pretty interestingly-shaped building of the Royal Ontario Museum will be a place you don’t want to miss out on any trip to Toronto.

The Museum is an incredibly varied world class museum which has a number of exhibitions which are on show for a limited time, as well as its many permanent collections – so even if you come back the next year, there’s always something new to see and explore.
Personally, I’m a great lover of history, and when i go to other countries i love to find out it’s history and past culture along with its current one. The Royal Ontario Museum gives you just this opportunity, with its Exhibitions such as the “Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples”, a gallery which has on display amongst many things, arguably one of the most famous of all First Nation Chiefs, Chief Sitting Bull’s Headdress, and four Iconic Totem Poles carved by the Nisgaa and Haida peoples of Canada’s Pacific Northwest Coast – these particular artifacts are some of the absolute must see treasures the museum has on show.

If you’re more of a Natural History fan, the museum is sure not to disappoint. James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs are some of those rare places you can come face to face with creatures what once dominated the planet before the age of mankind, with Canada’s largest dinosaur on permanent display, Gordo the Barosaurus, who clocks in at an impressive 27 metres (90 feet). Visitors may also recognise the Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Deinonychus, and the popular Hadrosaur specimens, Parasaurolophus and Maiasaura. Many of the species on display are real fossil skeletons!

Of coarse, its not just dinosaurs that existed in pre-history, Mammals existed as well, something which the Reed Gallery of the Age of Mammals is happy to display. View an impressive array of large fossil skeletons and unusual North and South American specimens in a new gallery that explores the rise of mammals through the Ice Ages that followed the great extinction of dinosaurs. The gallery also explores the time of the Ice Age, with a focus on specimens from Ontario. Fascinating skeletal mounts of a mastodon, a giant beaver, and a stag moose, are on display, as well as other specimens such as a short-faced bear, one of the last native horses, and Toronto’s namesake Torontoceros, an extinct species of deer.

One of the newly refurbished attractions to the museum is the Bat Cave! With more bats, animatronics and atmospheric sights and sounds, kids will love discovering the real stories behind these mysterious creatures of the night. Highlights include an audio-visual show that explores cave formation, how bats use echolocation and more, and a spectacular dramatisation of bats in flight during a nightly exodus for food!

There really is so much on offer at this museum that I’ve bearly scratched the surface – If you want to have a look at a full list of everything that is to offer at this amasing museum – check out their website’s gallery pages.

The museum, currently is open 7 days a week, 10:00am to 5:30pm Except Fridays where you have the opportunity of staying later until 9:30pm. It’s open through all public holidays except Christmas Day (25th Dec.)
To get up-to-date opening hour information, as well as the admission prices.. and information about their half price Friday evening discount – have a look at their website’s ticket information page.

The museum is located at:

Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Park
Toronto, ON
M5S 2C6

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For all Parking information, as well as the Museum’s entrances – click here to go to their information page

So, while you’re in Toronto, dont miss out on this amasing full day out for all the family!

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