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Undergoing an ambitious program of renovation, the richly endowed Royal Ontario Museum, popularly known as the ROM (100 Queen’s Park), has won international recognition for its collections of Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities, as well as the art of North American Indians and Inuit.
In a refreshing departure from the conventionally dry and scholarly displays of antiquities, the captions on the showcases do a fine job of placing the exhibits in a living context — explaining, for instance, the way a house was designed to deal with the changing elements and seasons, or the religious significance of the figurines that people the tomb.
Doctors from Japan, however, were not allowed to take DNA from King Tut's mummy to sort out his genealogy; the Egyptian government's supreme council of antiquities, after first agreeing, reversed the decision.
The house is an intriguing mixture of Baroque furniture and Roman antiquities, but the main attraction is the charming garden with its trellised arches and dramatic overhang with magical views overlooking the island and the bay.
Recent stories: thefts of antiquities during a high-profile government dam project, and false murder convictions.