Natural History Galleries

Natural History Highlights

Level 2, Centre Block
The Museum has a few small displays from our natural history collections. During your visit, don't miss:

Burgess Shale
These exquisitely-preserved fossils from British Columbia provide evidence of the world's first animal communities over 505 million years ago. Animal communities that once lived 50 kilometres offshore are now found as fossils in the Rocky Mountains at 2,300 metres elevation. Visitors can examine these impressive fossils in three display cases.

Buy toy models of the Burgess Shale fossils.

Individual sets can be purchased at the ROM Museum Store.

Wholesale prices are available for large quantities.
For information and orders e-mail bshale@rom.on.ca.