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	Royal Ontario Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Established in 1912 by the provincial government, the Royal Ontario Museum was operated by the University of Toronto until 1955.
		The mosaic ceiling of the rotunda entrance to the Royal Ontario Museum.
		Writing in the Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1933, A. Mathers said of the expansion: "The interior of the building is a surprise and a pleasant one; the somewhat complicated ornament of the facade is forgotten and a plan on the grand manner unfolds itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Ontario_Museum (2709 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum
		Royal Ontario Museum McLaughlin Planetarium, 1984 - 1987
		The first commercial Stellarium was installed in the Astrocentre of the Royal Ontario Museums McLaughlin planetarium in Toronto.
		Unfortunately the planetarium itself was closed only a few years later when the museum had to cut costs.
	www.stellarium.com /html/royal_ontario_museum.html (340 words)

	Flora of Muskoka, ROM Botany
		The ROM Herbaria comprises three principal collections: the Vascular Plant Herbarium, a collection of Quaternary sediment cores, macro- and microfossils, and modern reference material (pollen, seeds, etc.), and the Cryptogamic Herbarium (TRTC).
		ROM Herbaria based curators carry out research, and teach in the Botany Department of the University of Toronto at both the undergraduate and graduate level, in addition to their collection and other responsibilities.
		ROM botanical collections and research activities are featured in a number of ROM galleries, notably the second floor Botany Gallery ("Ontario's changing plantscape/L'évolution de la flore ontarienne;" Dickinson 1991).
	www.library.utoronto.ca /www/muskoka_flora/misc/rombtny.htm (214 words)

	Flora of Muskoka, TRT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ROM Vascular Plant Herbarium is known by its acronym, TRT (Holmgren et al.
		TRT is located in the ROM Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at 14 Queen's Park Crescent W, in Toronto.
		Research activity in Botany at the ROM is resulting in improved TRT coverage of Rosaceae subfamily Maloideae (studies by T. Dickinson, students, and collaborators) and of the flora of Grenada (studies by J. McAndrews and K. Barbour, students, and collaborators at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad;
	www.library.utoronto.ca /www/muskoka_flora/misc/trt.htm (299 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. R.35 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Museum and its real and personal property, business and income are exempt from all assessment and taxation made, imposed or levied by or under the authority of any Act of the Legislature. R.S.O. 1990, c.
		The funds of the Museum not immediately required for its purposes and the proceeds of all property that come to the Museum, subject to any trust or trusts affecting the same, may be invested and reinvested in such investments as the Board considers meet. R.S.O. 1990, c.
		The accounts and financial transactions of the Museum shall be audited annually by an auditor or auditors appointed by the Board. R.S.O. 1990, c.
	www.e-laws.gov.on.ca /DBLaws/Statutes/English/90r35_e.htm (1678 words)

	Ministry of Culture: Royal Ontario Museum
		The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is an agency of the Ministry of Culture.
		The ROM works with more than 5,000 schools to provide both formal and informal learning opportunities for students, including over 420,000 participants in ROM Outreach programs in communities across Ontario, as well as 154,000 student visitors each year, representing 7% of all Ontario students.
		The museum is supported by a Province of Ontario operating grant and self-generated revenues, including the memberships and donations of more than 37,000 individuals.
	www.culture.gov.on.ca /english/about/rom.htm (207 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
		Generations of children and adults have trooped through the museum since it opened in 1914.
		Four giant carved totem poles rise in the centre of the stairwells; the largest is 24.5 metres (80 ft. 6 in.) tall.
		In addition to the fantastic and educational displays and activities, the ROM remains open throughout its major expansion project, although certain galleries may be affected by construction.
	www.toronto.com /attractions/listing/000-100-110 (345 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Royal Ontario Museum, often called the ROM, is a world-renowned institution and the fifth largest museum in North America.
		The new building was designed by Alfred H. Chapman and James Oxley, The new main facade of the museum broke from the Italianate style of the original structure, to a neo-Byzantine style, with stone, triple windows contained within recessed arches, and different-coloured stone arranged in a variety of patterns.
		The museum is currently undergoing a major renovation and redesign, dubbed the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, by renowned architect and Bregman and Hamann Architects, and slated for completion in 2007, and was budgeted to cost $200 million.
	www.lostrivers.ca /points/rom.htm (372 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum
		-- The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), the fifth largest museum in North America, is an internationally renowned museum and a popular public attraction.
		Today, the ROM comprises engaging galleries of art, archeology and science, and showcases Canada’s culture and natural history.
		The ROM is now implementing Renaissance ROM, a $200 million expansion and renovation project, designed by Daniel Libeskind.
	www.museumstuff.com /rec/org_20020201_16607.html (313 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum - Events Calendar - VIA Rail Canada
		The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has embarked on Renaissance ROM, an ambitious expansion and restoration project slated for completion in 2007.
		The ROM is renowned for its extensive natural history and world culture collections, as well as for the international research it undertakes to support them.
		The ROM invites visitors to discover the work of Korean painter Gim Gisan depicting daily life in the towns and villages of early 20th-century Korea.
	www.viarail.ca /evenements/396_en_toronto_royal_ontario_museum.html (236 words)

	University of Toronto - Great Past - Campus Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The original, west wing of the museum, a three-storey Byzantine building of brick and terracotta, opened in 1914 with its entrance on Bloor Street.
		When the collection outgrew the museum, another wing was designed by Alfred Chapman (architect of Knox College) and opened on Queen’s Park in 1933.
		In the mid-1960s, the ROM separated from the university in order to attract its own funding from the government and the private sector.
	www.greatpast.utoronto.ca /GalleryOfImages/InteractiveTour/info_ROM.stm (104 words)

	ROM Images
		It mirrors the unique range of the ROM’s collections—archaeology, arts, and sciences.
		The image collection also highlights some of the ROM’s research activities and its growth and history.
		ROM Images will grow, with new images added and new tours developed.
	images.rom.on.ca /public (114 words)

	CTV.ca \| German architect to revamp Royal Ontario Museum
		The international competition for the expansion of the museum -- which is North America's fifth largest -- originally drew 50 entrants, and was eventually narrowed down to three.
		Libeskind, architect of Berlin's Jewish Museum, said his design was inspired by the crystalline forms in the museum's minerals galleries.
		"It's really going to be one of the most elegant museum buildings that have been built since the beginning of this century," said William Thorsell, president and CEO of ROM.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1024895848145_20305048 (271 words)

	Toronto Hotels: Royal Ontario Museum
		Royal Ontario Museum has many hotels located within 5 miles.
		This will let you compare the best hotel rates for the Royal Ontario Museum area.
		--> The Royal Ontario Museum is located at the corner of Bloor St and Queen's Park Avenue.
	www.roomrate.com /toronto/attractions/RoyalOntarioMuseum.asp (146 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum \| Copyright Policy
		Materials on this website were produced and/or compiled by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) for the purposes of providing the public with information about the ROM’s programs and services and to further the ROM’s mandate to communicate to the public humanity’s cultural and natural history.
		The ROM has taken all reasonable efforts to ensure that materials, for which copyright belongs to others, are reproduced on the ROM’s website with the full consent of the copyright owners.
		Many of the trade-marks displayed on this website including the “Royal Ontario Museum”, and ROM logo, are registered and/or unregistered marks of the Royal Ontario Museum.
	romlx6.rom.on.ca /copyright.php (430 words)

	Royal Alberta Museum: Links
		The Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) showcases a rich collection of high-quality heritafe content on-line, bringing together in innovative and dynamic ways the stories and treasures entrusted to Canadian museums.
		Disclaimer: The Royal Alberta Museum is only responsible for the content of pages in this presentation beginning with the URL "http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/".
		The Royal Alberta Museum is not responsible for the content of any pages linked to from this presentation.
	www.royalalbertamuseum.ca /sites/intro.htm (384 words)

	Bill Reid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was part of a team from the Provincial Museum that travelled to historic village sites on Haida Gwaii (including Tanu, Skedans and Ninstints) to salvage poles.
		The poles were later moved to museums in Vancouver and Victoria.
		The screen was specially commissioned by the museum in 1968 and is now displayed at the exit to the First Peoples Gallery on the third floor.
	www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca /hhistory/billreid.html (1160 words)

	Zoology
		All groups except the chelicerates and insects (held in the Lyman Museum of Macdonald campus) are represented in the invertebrate collection.
		This includes samples from type specimens from the major museums as well as material collected from deep sea submersible expeditions.
		There are approximately 30,000 lots of molluscs: the museum holds the Carpenter collection (donated 1867), international in scope), the Mickles-Conde Collection (donated 1948, mainly Caribbean and Florida), a Dawson collection (mainly eastern Canada) and the Levine Collection (donated 1995, worldwide).
	www.mcgill.ca /redpath/collections/zoology (601 words)

	Learning at the Royal Ontario Museum
		This session will take place at the Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park (South Entrance), from 1:00 to 4:30 pm.
		Participate in a special tour of the Royal Ontario Museum, one of Toronto’s best art and history museums.
		In a debriefing afterwards, participants formally consider the techniques used by the museum to engage participants, and consider ways to apply those techniques to the design of online and classroom learning programs.
	www.cstd.ca /conference/workshop_info/learning_rom.html (220 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum Hotels - Toronto
		The Royal Ontario Museum is the largest museum in Canada with an internationally renowned collection numbering more than five million objects.
		Located on one of the most fashionable corners in Toronto and next to the University of Toronto, the ROM is a popular destination.
		From galleries of art, archaeology and science, showcasing the world's culture and natural history, to exciting public programs and events, the ROM offers a truly engaging museum experience.
	www.metrotorontohotels.com /royal_ontario_museum_hotels.html (97 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Toronto \| Frommers.com
		The ROM (rhymes with "tom"), as it's affectionately called, is Canada's largest museum, with more than 6 million objects in its collections.
		And in 2006, many of those pieces will be back on display as the museum's ambitious renovation plan winds up.
		Called Renaissance ROM, this C$200 million (US$160 million) project is adding six new galleries overlooking Bloor Street West.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/toronto/A21084.html (428 words)

	Canada Plus.ca - Home - Royal Ontario Museum
		The ROM Museum Store will complete the visitor’s experience of the ROM’s roster of special exhibitions.
		The ROM’s permanent collections of natural history and world cultures will also be well represented in the retail outlet, to be located on the Museum’s second floor.
		Complementing an exhibition of Italian Art and Design, the ROM Museum Store celebrates Italian culture through a diverse representation of designers and brands, such as Richard Sapper, Michele De Lucchi, Michael Graves, Ettore Sottsass, Alessi, and Tizio.
	www.canadaplus.ca /home/royal_ontario_museum/1024031 (350 words)

	CityPass : Toronto ~ Royal Ontario Museum
		You haven't seen Toronto until you've visited Canada's largest museum of world cultures and natural history.
		Nowhere else in the city can you marvel at the mystery of Egyptian mummies, hear the buzz of an active beehive and be inspired by our spectacular new galleries of China, Korea, Japan and Canada's First Peoples.
		Come to the ROM and return home with a world of new experiences!",'phone' => "(416) 586-8000",'revision' => "2",'ttytdd' => "",'additional' => "ROM Reproduction Shop.
	www.citypass.com /attraction/rom.html (350 words)

	ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM (ROM)
		Features: The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is Canada's largest museum of human cultures and natural history, with more than six million objects in its collections and galleries showcasing art, archeology and science.
		The ROM is currently undergoing a major renovation and expansion project known as Renaissance ROM.
		October 13, 2006: The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce that Dr. Allan Baker, Senior Curator of Ornithology and Head of the Museum's Department of Natural History, has received the prestigious Doris Huestis Speirs Award for his contributions to the field of Canadian ornithology
	medialink.andara.com /card/Pol0300.htm (2189 words)

	May is Museum Month
		Receive discounted admission to Ontario's museums including: the Royal Ontario Museum, the Currency Museum, the Virtual Museum of Canada and more.
		Visit the May is Museum Month photo album to see some of the exciting events that happened throughout Ontario in May!
		Ontario's museums are featuring hundreds of exciting exhibits and events during May, including special programs for International Museum Day on May 18.
	www.museumsontario.com /mmweb (121 words)

	Royal Ontario Museum
		A freshwater shell-less mollusc from the Caribbean: Structure, biotics, and contribution to a new understanding of the Acochlidioidea
		Ancient lamps in the Royal Ontario Museum I
		Ancient lamps in the Royal Ontario Museum I: Greek and Roman clay lamps: a catalogue
	isbndb.com /d/publisher/royal_ontario_museum.html (305 words)

	Museum and Exhibitions :: Ontario
		The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) was created by the signing of the ROM Act in the Ontario Legislature on April 16, 1912.
		The Museum actually opened its doors to the public at 3 pm on March 19, 1914, when His Royal Highness the Duke of Co naught dedicated what now forms the back wing of the present building.
		December 24 and 31 closing at 4 p.m.
	www.islamicart.com /library/museum/canada/ontario.html (100 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Royal Ontario Museum
		The definitive ROM Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Ontario is researched, written, and designed specifically for the...
		This unique publication, produced in association with the Royal Ontario Museum, is the guide Ontario birders have been waiting for…
		The ROM Field Guide to Birds of Ontario is researched and written specifically for the Ontario bird watcher.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=57559 (220 words)

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