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 * It houses the world's largest collection of fossils from the Burgess Shale with more than 150,000 specimens. (Added citation)
 * The museum was originally under the direct control and management of the University of Toronto, until 1968, when it became an independent institution. (Added citation)
 * The Royal Ontario Museum was established on April 16, 1912, with the signing of the Ontario Legislature’s ROM Act. The Government of Ontario and the University of Toronto funded the construction and development of the museum. On March 19th, 1914, at 3:00 pm, the Duke of Connaught, also the Governor-General of Canada, officially opened the Royal Ontario Museum to the public. The museum’s location at the edge of Toronto's built-up area, far from the city's central business district, was selected mainly for its close proximity to the University of Toronto. The original building was constructed on the western edge of the property along the university's Philosopher's Walk, with its main entrance facing out onto Bloor Street. This was the first phase of a two-part construction plan that intended on expanding the museum towards Queen's Park Crescent, ultimately creating a H-shaped structure. Many of the museum's artifacts at this time were transferred from the it's predecessor, the Museum of Natural History and Fine Arts at the Toronto Normal School. '''(Edited grammar, broke up sentences, added citations, corrected dates)
 * Beginning in 2002, the museum underwent a major renovation and expansion project dubbed as Renaissance ROM. The Provincial and Federal governments, both supporters of this venture, contributed $60 million towards the project. The campaign aimed to not only raise annual visitor attendance from 750,000 to between 1.3 and 1.6 million, but to also generate additional funding opportunities to support the museum's research, conservation, galleries, and educational public programs. The centerpiece of the project, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, was a major addition to the building's original framework. The structure was created by architect Daniel Libeskind, whose design was selected from among 50 finalists in an international competition. (Expanded on information, edited grammar, corrected dates, added citations)
 * The first phase of the Renaissance ROM project, the Ten Renovated Galleries in the Historic Buildings, opened to the public on December 26, 2005. The Architectural Opening for the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, however, took place years later on June 2, 2007. (Expanded on information, corrected dates, added citation)
 * The final cost of the project was approximately $270 million CAD. (Changed 'about' to 'approximately', added citation)
 * The first expansion to the Royal Ontario Museum publicly opened on October 12, 1933. The renovation saw the construction of the south wing fronting onto Queen's Park, and required the demolition of Argyle House, a Victorian mansion once located at 100 Queen's Park. As this occurred during the Great Depression, an effort was made to primarily use local building materials and workers capable of manually excavating the building's foundations. Teams of workers alternated weeks of service due to the physically draining nature of the job. (Edited grammar, expanded sentences, added new information and citations)
 * On October 26, 1968, the ROM opened the McLaughlin Planetarium on the south-end of the property after receiving a $2 million donation from Colonel R. Samuel McLaughlin. By the 1980s, however, the planetarium’s audiences were dwindling and the facility was forced to shut down in November of 1995 due to budget cuts. The space temporarily reopened from 1998 to 2002 after being leased to Children’s Own Museum. In 2009, the ROM sold the building to the University of Toronto for $22 million, and ensured that it would continue to be used for institutional, academic purposes. (Edited incorrect date, specified dates, added new information, edited grammar)

Janine Carpenteri

 * Fix grammatical errors
 * Reword sentences.
 * Many run on sentences as well as chopped sentences.
 * Collect ideas; paragraphs are not structured.
 * "The Deconstructivist crystalline-form is clad in 25 percent glass and 75 percent aluminium sitting on top of a steel frame". (added citation)


 * The new main entrance to the Royal Ontario Museum called The Crystal was first opened in 2007; designed by Daniel Libeskind. The Deconstructivist crystalline-form is clad in 25 percent glass and 75 percent aluminium sitting on top of a steel frame. The Crystal's canted walls do not touch the sides of the existing heritage buildings used to close the envelope between the new form and existing walls, and also acts as a safe zone for pedestrians to cross.(Reworded the paragraph to make sense, and added two citation)
 * The Crystal's canted walls do not touch the sides of the existing heritage buildings, used to close the envelope between the new form and existing walls. These walls also act as a safe zone for pedestrians to cross.(broke up the sentence and made two)


 * The overall aim of the Crystal is to provide openness and accessibility seeking to blur the lines between the threshold linking the public area of the street and the private area of the museum. (turned the two short sentences into one; added a transition word)


 * These walls act as a pathway for pedestrians to safely travel across "The Crystal". (reworded the sentence, the sentence was confusing) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcarpen14 (talk • contribs) 04:20, 29 March 2012 (UTC)


 * On June 1st, 2007, the Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, attended the Architectural Opening of the "Michael Lee-Chin Crystal." This caused controversy; the public opinion had been divided concerning the merits of its angular design. (Reworded the sentence, and added a citation)


 * On its opening, Globe and Mail architecture critic Lisa Rochon complained that "the new ROM rages at the world," was oppressive, angsty, and hellish, while others (perhaps championed by the architecture critic at the competing Toronto Star, Christopher Hume) hailed it as a monument. (Changed "calling it" to "was" because the sentence didn't make sense)


 * In October 2007, the Lee-Chin Crystal was reported to have suffered from water leakage causing concerns due to the building's resilience to weather, especially in the face of the new structure's proximate first winter" (Connected the sentences together)


 * Although a two-layer cladding system was incorporated into the design of the Crystal to prevent the formation of dangerous snow loads on the structure, past architectural creations of Daniel Libeskind, (including the Denver Art Museum) have suffered from weather-related complications. (Added brackets, and commas)


 * Within the “Crystal” there is a gift shop, C5 restaurant lounge, a cafeteria, seven additional galleries and Canada’s largest temporary exhibition hall. The galleries added to the Crystal gave different aspects to the ROM; fascinating visuals, architectural artifacts and environment, art, correspondence between object and space, as well as stories within the visuals . The C5 restaurant Lounge is an award winning designs firm lI BY IV Design Associated Inc. This Mexican cuisine restaurant allows people to experience Mexico through taste, as well as live music. (citation) (Added more information found while researching, added citations as well)


 * Installation of the permanent galleries of the Lee-Chin Crystal began mid-June 2007, after a ten-day period when all the empty gallery spaces were open to the public. (added a citation) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcarpen14 (talk • contribs) 03:23, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Kevin Ghoorah

 * Change 'flock' to 'colony'

Siamak Fazli

 * Fixed a few citation errors in the reference list pertaining to The Crystal section. Minor edit — Preceding unsigned comment added by SiamakF (talk • contribs) 03:19, 29 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The Natural history galleries are all gathered on the second floor of the museum. The gallery contains collections and samples of various animals such as bats, birds, and dinosaur bones and skeletons. (Previous sentence was a run-on.)


 * The Gallery of Birds has on display many bird specimens from past centuries. The Gallery of Birds is dominated by the broad “Birds in flight” display where stuffed birds are enclosed in a glass display for visitors to experience. Dioramas allow visitors to learn about the many bird species and how environmental and habitual changes have put other bird species in danger of extinction. Pull-out drawers let you examine more closely eggs, feathers, footprints and nests.  The gallery included exhibits of other extinct species such as, the Passenger Pigeon.  These were later moved to the Schad Gallery. (Added more information since the previous version was lacking any/added citation)


 * The Bat Cave, originally opened in 1998, is a realistic imitation of the St. Clair cave found in Jamaica. The cave design was based on the Royal Ontario Museums own fieldwork at the site. The gallery is filled with bats and other animals typically found in such caves including, spiders and snakes. It underwent renovations in February 2010, and opened later that month. (Included that the ROM did fieldwork at the site)


 * The Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-On Biodiversity introduces visitors to the many complicated relationships among all living things. Visitors often explore diverse environments exploring a wide range of plants and animals. The gallery also features the “living” displays, which feature, mossy frogs from the jungles of Vietnam, fish found in a typical southern Ontario stream, and bees flying in from outdoors in the gallery’s active beehive.


 * The Tallgrass Prairies and Savannas, is a featured dynamic display that features one of the most endangered and diverse habitats in Ontario. The display features examples of the regions and the efforts by the Ontario ministry of Natural Resources, to maintain and restore the tall grass prairies and savannas. (added significant information/citation/grammar)


 * The Gallery of Korea is the only gallery of Korean art in all of Canada. With approximately 260 objects and artifacts, the gallery brings to brings to life Korean and culture. Furniture, ceramics, metalwork, printing technology, painting and decorative arts, dating from the 3rd to 20th centuries AD, illustrate the many accomplishments to Korean culture.


 * Buddhism being a large part of the Korean culture was introduced to them through China and took hold on the general population. The influence of Buddhism on the Korean culture is portrayed with two statues. The first being a Sarira casket which originated in India, and were made to enshrine the remains of a Buddha or enlightened masters. The other statue is of a tomb guardian. (Added information about the gallery of Korea/citation addition)


 * Located on the Weston Family Wing, the Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada displays collections of early Canadian memorabilia. The majority of the collection is comprised of historical decorative and pictorial arts, but also includes a number of historical artifacts among other things. The gallery has approximately 560 artifacts on display and covers the period from early European settlement to the beginning of the modern industrial era. The displays are split up into sections to display the strength and weaknesses of the collections and strongly reflect the French and British cultural heritage of Canada. (Combined addition by Stephen Cho and myself. Addition of citation.)


 * The Reed Gallery of the Age of Mammals explores the rise of mammals through the Ice Age that lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs. There are over 400 specimens from North America and South America on display. Also included in the gallery are, 30 fossil skeletons of extinct mammals, over 160 non-mammalian specimens, and hundreds of fossil plants, insects, fish, and turtles. The galleries entrance begins with mammals that survived through the extinction of the mammals. A highlight of this gallery is the sabre-toothed nimravid Dinictis. (Added section for natural history galleries ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SiamakF (talk • contribs) 03:09, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

The novel, "Calculating God" by Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer, is mainly set in the ROM. The novel received nominations for both the Hugo and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards in 2001.
 * ==In fiction== (Minor edit. Just added some information/citation)

Hands-on Galleries
(New section added into galleries content)

In the Earth section of the gallery, many of the Museum’s natural history collections are held. Visitors are educated on the structure of our solar system’s oldest rocks. Also they can learn to distinguish earth-originated rocks from meteorites. 505-million-year-old fossils of animals discovered by the ROM are easily examined by visitors. Also included in the gallery is an interactive section where visitors can touch a Hadrosaur leg bone and dig for dinosaur bones.
 * Designed in three main areas – In the Earth, Around the World and Close to home, the CIBC Discovery Gallery engages visitors of all ages to learn about the world around them. The space is filled with real specimens and touchable artifacts. The gallery also includes a section for pre-schoolers, with puzzles, toys and costumes to try on.

The Digital Gallery offers two 50-minute presentations. These include, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, and Shaping Canada: Our Voices and Stories. The primary targets for these programs have been at school groups.
 * Part of the expanded Learning Centre, The Digital Gallery includes a library and a handful of classrooms. Equipped with digital video projectors and 16 workstations, the gallery allow visitors to interact with the ROM’s collections in virtual-and three-dimensional spaces.

Featured within the gallery is the Tallgrass Prairies and Savannas—a dynamic display that highlights the plight of one of the most biologically diverse yet jeopardized habitats in Ontario. Interactive displays in the gallery go into stories and issues of tall grass prairies.
 * The Patrick and Barbara Keenan Family Gallery is an interactive gallery oriented on the Museum’s research and collections. Hundreds of specimens are on venue for visitors to handle. Plants and animals in a diversified environment are explored by visitors.

Stephen Cho
Further Additions
 * Reword sentences and add more information to the summary provided at the top of the page
 * Add more information to "World Culture Galleries"
 * Will rearrange the whole world culture section, organizing galleries based on the floor they're on.
 * Add information to most of the galleries under World Culture — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stephen Cho (talk • contribs) 17:23, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Added wiki links, checked for spelling, checked citations and italicized words — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stephen Cho (talk • contribs) 05:55, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

The Royal Ontario Museum

 * The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is Canada's largest museum of world culture and natural history located in Toronto, Ontario. It is one of the largest museums in North America, welcoming over a million visitors every year. The museum is located north of Queen's Park in the University of Toronto, with its main entrance facing Bloor Street. (Added new information and reorganized the information.)


 * Founded in 1912, the museum has maintained close relations with the University of Toronto throughout its history, often sharing expertise and resources. The museum was originally under the direct control and management of the University of Toronto, until 1968, when it became an independent institution. Today, the museum is Canada's largest field-research institution, with research and conservation activities that span the globe. (Added a bit of new information and made a few minor changes to existing sentences.)


 * With more than six million items and forty galleries, the museum's diverse collections of world culture and natural history are part of the reason for its international reputation. The museum contains notable collections of dinosaurs, minerals and meteorites, Near Eastern and African art, East Asian art, European history, and Canadian history. It houses the world's largest collection of fossils from the Burgess Shale with more than 150,000 specimens. The museum even contains an extensive collection of design and fine arts. These include clothing, interior, and product design, especially Art Deco. (Added a bit of new information and made a few minor changes to existing sentences. Also reorganized the paragraph.)

World culture galleries

 * The World Culture galleries display a wide variety of objects from around the world. These range from Stone Age implements from China and Africa to 20th-century art and design. In July 2011, the museum added to this collection when a number of new permanent galleries were unveiled. Both the Government of Canada and the Royal Ontario Museum committed $2.75 million toward the project. The galleries are located on the first, third and fourth levels of the museum. (New paragraph that gives a summary of the World Culture Galleries)


 * The first level of the museum contains galleries concerning Canadian, First Nation, Chinese, Korean and Japanese culture. (New sentence)


 * The Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples provides a look inside the culture of Canada's earliest societies, the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada. The gallery contains more than 1,000 artifacts that help to reveal the economic and social forces that have influenced Native art. There is also a rotating display of contemporary Native art, an area dedicated to the works of pioneer artist Paul Kane, and a theatre devoted to traditional storytelling. (Changed and added some new information to the paragraph.)


 * Located on the Weston Family Wing, the Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada displays collections of early Canadian memorabilia. The majority of the collection is comprised of historical decorative and pictorial arts, but also includes a number of historical artifacts among other things. The gallery has approximately 560 artifacts on display and covers the period from early European settlement to the beginning of the modern industrial era. The displays are split up into sections to display the strength and weaknesses of the collections and strongly reflect the French and British cultural heritage of Canada. (Added new paragraph with help from Siamak)


 * The Bishop White Gallery of Chinese Temple Art has one of the most important collections of Chinese temple art in the world. The gallery contains three of the world's best-preserved temple wall paintings from the Yuan Dynasty(AD 1271–1386) and a number of wooden sculptures depicting various bodhisattvas from the 12th to 15th centuries. ('''Took this topic out of a paragraph, and started a new paragraph. Changed and added new information to the paragraph)


 * The Matthews Family Court of Chinese Sculpture has a wide variety of sculptures that span 2,000 years of Chinese sculptural art. It also displays a number of smaller objects that explore the development of religions in China from the 3rd to 19th centuries AD. (New paragraph)


 * The Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China is home to one of the best Chinese collections outside of China. It consists of approximately 2,500 objects spanning almost 7,000 years of Chinese history. The gallery is comprised of five sections: the T.T. Tsui Exhibit of Prehistory and Bronze Age; the Qin and Han Dynasties; the Michael C.K. Lo Exhibition of North, South, Sui and Tang; the Song, Yuan and Frontier Dynasties; and the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Each section focuses on a different period of Chinese history, displaying objects ranging from jade discs to pieces of furniture. (New paragraph)


 * The ROM Gallery of Chinese Architecture houses one of the largest collection of Chinese architectural artifacts outside of China and is the first gallery of Chinese architecture in North America. The gallery holds some spectacular exhibits such as a reconstruction of an Imperial Palace building from Beijing's Forbidden City and a Ming-era tomb complex. (Took this topic from a paragraph and made a new paragraph. Changed and added new information.)


 * The Prince Takamado Gallery of Japan contains the largest collection of Japanese artworks in Canada, featuring a rotating display of ukiyo-e prints, and the only tea master's collection in North America. The gallery is split into a number of different sections, each home to the collection of objects that the name suggests: the Toyota Canada Inc. Exhibit of Ukiyo-e Pictures, the Sony Exhibit of Painting, the Canon Canada Inc. Samurai Exhibit, the Mitsui & Co. Canada Tea Ceremony Exhibit, the Maple Leaf Foods Exhibit of Lacquers, and the Linamar Corporation Exhibit of Ceramics. The gallery is named in honour of the late Japanese Prince Takamado, who spent several years at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. (Changed and added new information to the paragraph)


 * The Eaton Gallery of Rome is home to a 1000 years of ancient Roman culture. It has the the largest collection of classical antiquities in Canada, displaying more than 500 objects that range from marble or painted portraits of historical figures to magnificent Roman jewellery. The gallery also features the Bratty Exhibit of Etruria that sheds some light on the Etruscans, a neighbouring civilization. (New paragraph)


 * The Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of Rome and the Near East depicts the lifestyle and culture of society's under Roman rule and influence in the Near East. (New paragraph)


 * The Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of Byzantium covers the final years of Roman history, featuring displays of religious artifacts, pilgrimage art and Byzantine jewellery. (New paragraph)


 * The Galleries of Africa: Nubia feature a collection of objects that explore the once flourishing civilization of Nubia. The Nubians were the first urban literary society in Africa south of the Sahara and were Egypt's main rival. (New paragraph)


 * The A.G. Leventis Foundation Gallery of Ancient Cyprus houses roughly 300 artifacts, focusing on the art created in Cyprus between 2200–30 BC. The gallery is divided into five sections: Cyprus and Commerce, Ancient Cypriot Pottery Types, Sculptures, Ancient Cyprus at a Glance, and Art & Society: Interpretations. The collection includes a reconstructed open-air sanctuary and a rare bronze relief statue of a man carrying a large copper ingot. (Changed and added new information to the paragraph)


 * The Shreyas and Mina Ajmera Gallery of Africa, the Americas and Asia-Pacific features a collection of 1,400 artifacts that reflect the artistic and cultural traditions of the indigenous peoples from four different geographical areas: Africa, the American continents, the Asia-Pacific region and Oceania. On display are objects such as ceremonial masks, ceramics, and even a shrunken head! (New paragraph)


 * The Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery holds a diverse collection of objects such as decorative art, armour and sculptures that represents the culture of South Asia. The gallery has approximately 350 objects that represent over 5,000 years of history. Due to the wide range of history and cultures on display, the gallery is split into numerous different sections. These are: the Material Remains, Imagining the Buddha, Visualizing Divinity, Passage to Enlightenment, Courtly Culture, Cultural Exchange, Home and the World. (New paragraph with more information. Took topic from merged paragraph with the Wirth Gallery of the Middle East)


 * The gallery shares a rotating exhibition space with the Wirth Gallery of the Middle East which explores the civilizations in the Fertile Crescent and beyond, and their contributions to both eastern and western civilization. (New paragraph with more information. Took topic from merged paragraph with the Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery)


 * The Gallery of the Bronze Age Aegean features over 100 objects that include examples from the Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean and Geometric periods of Ancient Greece. The collection ranges in age from 3200 - 700 BC and contains a variety of objects that include a marble head of a female figure and a glass necklace. (Changed and added new information to the paragraph)


 * The Gallery of Greece has a collection of 1,500 artifacts that span the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. This time span witnessed the bit of Western art. The collection consists of items such as sculptures of deities, armour, and a coin collection. (New paragraph.)


 * The Samuel European Galleries have some of the ROM's most popular and well-known collections. It primarily features decorative art, but also contains other items like ceramics, glass, and armour. The collection shows the evolution of style from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. (New paragraph.)