ROM renovation reveals its long hidden jewel: museum itself

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ROM renovation reveals its long hidden jewel: museum itself

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2005 / December 27

Royal Ontario Museum

For Lisa Dowd, it's as if a dusty sheet draped over the Royal Ontario Museum had been snatched away to reveal jewels that were there all along. "Space and light," she said, standing outside the newly unveiled galleries of Asian art opened to the public yesterday. "There's a flow to the place now. It's inviting." Visiting from New York City for the holidays, Canadian-born Ms. Dowd, along with her Salt Lake City cousin and nephew, took to downtown Toronto on their one free day before heading home, and rediscovered the museum they fondly remembered only for the bat cave, the totem poles and the dinosaurs.

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