Earlier this week the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) unveiled a new gallery. With the cold weather unfortunately hitting us hard, what better way to spend the day than inside a museum? Exploring one of the best museums in the country while learning something new sounds like the perfect winter day and hey, we can’t spend ALL of December doing holiday activities, right? Dawn of Life, the Willner Madge Gallery, is the first new major permanent gallery to open at ROM in a decade so I think it’s safe to say you won’t want to skip out on a visit!
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Dawn of Life
The Willner Madge Gallery, Dawn of Life, is ROM’s newest permeant gallery and the first of its kind in North America. With over 10 000 square feet of gallery space, over 4 billion years of evolution is explored. From the earliest microbes to dinosaurs and mammals, this gallery dives into the mystery of life. If you find yourself wondering where we came from, take a stroll through the gallery and feast your eyes on fossils, fieldwork research,
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“This is a landmark moment in the history of the Museum”
Josh BASSECHES, ROM DIRECTOR & CEO.
You can find the gallery on Level 2 which features almost 1,000 fossil specimens, from 4 billion to about 200 million years ago, drawn extensively from ROM’s world-class paleontology collections. The gallery even features specimens from exceptional Canadian fossil deposits, four of which are recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites!
“Fossils are the ultimate messengers of the past,” says Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron, Dawn of Life’s lead curator and the Richard M. Ivey Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. “Having survived the ravages of time, they tell wondrous stories about life’s journey and how the modern world, including us, eventually came to be. In this gallery we are telling the first 4 billion years of this long journey to the first dinosaurs.”
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