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The Samuel Family

The Samuel family has enjoyed a long and close association with the Museum. At the age of 10 young Sigmund Samuel was already collecting – stamps. A year later he began to work for his father. The family business supplied local factories with metal, and the company grew quickly as Canada

Louise Hawley Stone

Louise Hawley Stone was a devoted friend of the ROM. The Museum’s first volunteer, she was also a donor, fundraiser, Board member and committee chair. In 1940, Louise Hawley Stone came to a lecture by the ROM’s new Keeper of the Chinese Collections, Bishop William White. Hooked, she studied

Joey and Toby Tanenbaum

Joey and Toby Tanenbaum have contributed greatly to Toronto, from hospital facilities to performing-arts organizations to the Royal Ontario Museum. Joey Tanenbaum’s grandfather, Abraham, arrived in Toronto in 1911. He started as a peddler of scrap metal with only $8.00 to his name. Nevertheless

Sir Byron Edmund Walker

Sir Byron Edmund Walker was the driving force behind the campaign to found a world-class museum in Toronto. Born in 1848 on a farm in Haldimand County, Ontario, Edmund Walker left school at the age of 12 to enter the banking business. Curious about culture and science, he became a self-taught

Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall

With 5,181 sq. m. (17,000 sq. ft.) of floor space and 5-metre (17-feet) high ceilings, this expansive new gallery space will host all of the Museum’s major exhibitions, with the capability of housing different exhibitions simultaneously. Originally created in 1986 through a generous donation

J.F. Driscoll Family Stair of Wonders

More than 1,000 historical or scientific artifacts from the Museum's extensive collections are featured along the J.F. Driscoll Family Stair of Wonders. Not part of the permanent galleries, these "cabinets of curiosities" feature a 20 kilogram hippopotamus jaw, horns and antlers of

Herman Herzog Levy Gallery

The Herman Herzog Levy Gallery is the ROM's main venue for special East Asian exhibitions. The continually changing nature of the gallery makes it a dynamic space to showcase the broad scope and diversity of the ROM's collection of Chinese, Japanese and Korean artifacts, while ensuring

Thorsell Spirit House

Formed at the point where all of the Lee-Chin Crystal's five crystalline shapes unite, this unique space soars vertically from Level B2 to Level 4, with criss-crossing bridges on each level that connect the galleries from east to west. From these bridges, visitors can experience the large,

Hyacinth Gloria Chen Crystal Court

The Hyacinth Gloria Chen Crystal Court is a graceful atrium lobby located in the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. The soaring four-story interior was named in honour of Michael Lee-Chin’s mother to recognize his exceptional generosity. Large walls, graceful lines and vast interior spaces provide

Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery

The majestic Samuel Hall Currelly Gallery, built during the Museum’s 1933 expansion, connects the 1914 Philosophers’ Walk Wing to the 1933 Hilary and Galen Weston Wing on Queen’s Park. Many upgrades and modifications have enhanced the gallery’s role as the visitor’s orientation space to