Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures
Level 2, Weston Family Wing
Filling the length of the Weston Family Wing on Level 2 in the ROM’s historical buildings, the Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures is divided into the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals, the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame Gallery and the Gallery of Gems and Gold.
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Image: The display cases in the Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth's Treasures present an attractive array of colourful and textured specimens.
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Bat Cave
Level 2
The Bat Cave is a walk-through diorama based on the research of ROM scientists at St. Clair cave in Jamaica. A family favourite, the Bat Cave is home to bats, spiders, snakes and other creatures of the night.
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Image: Bats in flight.
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Reed Gallery of the Age of Mammals
Level 2
View an impressive array of large fossil skeletons and unusual North and South American specimens in a new gallery that explores the rise of mammals through the Ice Ages that followed the great extinction of dinosaurs.
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Image: Visitors marvel at the collection of Ice Age animals, including a Mastodon, in the Reed Gallery of the Age of Mammals. Photo credit: David McKay.
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Gallery of Birds
Level 2
The gallery displays hundreds of species of birds in flight, with pull-out drawers containing eggs, feathers, footprints and nests. Mini-dioramas focus on extinct birds and how environmental changes and habitat destruction have put other species in danger.
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Image: View of the Gallery of Birds.
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James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs
Level 2
These new galleries feature our renowned collection of dinosaur skeletons, along with fascinating fossil birds, mammals, insects and plants of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
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Image: Mounted Theropod skeleton on display in the James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs.
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Patrick and Barbara Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-on Biodiversity
Level 2
This gallery is a hands-on learning centre exploring the vast diversity of life on earth. The gallery is based on the Museum's collections and research, and offers visitors a venue to examine and handle hundreds of objects.
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Image: View of child looking at leaves.
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Natural History Highlights
Level 2
Highlights from our natural history collections include Burgess Shale, fossil evidence of the first animal communities over 505 million years ago.
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Image: Burgess Shale fossils from British Columbia.
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