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Royal Ontario Museum

Recently during one of my days off, I realised that although I’d been in Toronto for 2 months now, I hadn’t really visited many of the ‘Tourist’ sights that the city has to offer. So I got out my Toronto guide book (which I hadn’t really looked at since the first week!) and had a look at the top 10 things to do in Toronto. Apparently I’d only done two of them! So I took the opportunity to visit the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and tick another top 10 off my list.

I managed to take a few pictures around the museum of things that I found interesting whilst I was there. Obviously there is so much more in the museum, and there were a few exhibits where you weren’t allowed to take a camera. Especially the ‘Warrior Emperor’s Terracotta Army’ exhibition which was fascinating. I’d highly recommend seeing or learning about it, it was a great experience learning about the man who unified China, built himself a tomb (probably the biggest ever in the world) with thousands of terracotta soldiers and underground lakes made from mercury!

I couldn’t take any pictures in there, but here are some of the others I took around the place… including dinosaurs… and who doesn’t love them?

I tried to organise them so they’re in a very rough chronological order, from dinosaurs, to the first humans, to ancient Egyptians and Greeks, to medieval times, to 16th Century Europe, Victorian times and finally to the modern day art of Dan Perjovschi.

Anyway, enjoy! And I’d recommend viewing the photos on full screen by selecting it from the menu.