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Hidden : 10/22/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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A find in a peaceful area -- logbook only.

Not-Your-Average Toronto Tour – Stop Two – The Royal Ontario Museum

The Royal Ontario Museum is a museum with an amazing number of galleries, world cultures, natural history, and millions of permanent objects on display. Located at 100 Queen’s Park, it’s a huge gray brick building with an amazing crystal like structure sticking out of the side of the building. The ROM offers so much, with hands on galleries, lectures, restaurants, courses, and events. With mind blowing exhibitions on almost everything from biodiversity to mineralogy. The galleries are amazing because it showcases items from every corner of our world including all its culture and what makes it special. The ROM is one of the largest museums in North America and has the largest field research in Canada. Did you know that the ROM also offers travel, trips and walks? ROMtravel allows people to go on tours around the world with highly trained experts; ROMtrips takes you on trips to museum theme places in Toronto while ROMwalk takes you on a guided walk around the historical and architectural places in Toronto.

The ROM was founded by Sir Byron Edmund Walker who was the president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and Charles Trick Currelly who was a Canadian archaeologist. They envisioned a provincial museum in Toronto, although they weren’t the only people who were involved in the founding of the ROM. Other people with influence also helped persuade the provincial government of Ontario and the University of Toronto to help fund for the future museum. After a lot of hard work and careful planning the ROM first opened on March 19th, 1914. Over the years, many renovations have been made to the ROM that contributes to the way it is now. The ROM used to be 5 separate museums buildings called the Royal Ontario Museums of Archaeology, Paleontology, Mineralogy, Zoology, and Geology. In 1955 the 5 museums became one museum, and in 1968 the ROM became separate from the University of Toronto not physically but as a different being under the provincial government. Afterwards due to the fact that the ROM wanted to have more research, collections and a library, another renovation was done. Over the years other renovations were done, the most recent one in 2007 was the Michael Lee-Chin crystal. This was meant not only to create more space for restaurants etc but as well to be a new symbol of Toronto in the 21st century.

The Not-Your-Average Toronto Tour is a result of a 2011 grade 9 Geography of Canada student project. Students designed their own Geocaching.com pages based on sites important to Toronto’s cultural, physical, ecological, and economic landscape. The top six student projects have been placed and published. The final site (in the Rouge Valley) has a larger geocache filled with items that represent all six sites from the 2011 project.

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)