jueves, 24 de julio de 2008

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

The Royal Ontario Museum, commonly known as the ROM, is a major museum for world culture and natural history in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It has notable collections of dinosaurs, Near Eastern and African art, East Asian art, European history, and Canadian history.
We began at the Asian Art spot, we saw different kind of artifact as statues, specially the one that look like a soldier; jars, paintings and ancient books where we could observed the ancient chinese, korean and japanese writings.
The ROM has an wide collection of dinosaur skeletons that includes the largest dinosaur in Canada, the Barosaurus. But there's not only dinosaur but also examples of early mammals skeletons; as well as those of early birds, reptile and marine animals.
But the ROM also contain an very complete variety of artifacts that belongs to different countries and periods.

For example:
In the Africa gallery I observed artifacts such as agricultural implements, jewelry, cosmetics, funerary furnishings and more. I even saw an mummy case with the mummy inside.
One of the most strange gallery in the museum, is the Patricia Harris Gallery of Costumes and Textiles in which includes a broad range of garments and fabrics, including examples from the Chinese imperial court, 18th century European fashions.

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