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Decor & Decorum

Decor & Decorum

Printed Textiles in the 20th Century Printed textiles have been used extensively for interior furnishings and dress fabrics. The fact that printed designs could be made fairly quickly by block printing, screening or roller printing and less expensively than woven fabrics, has made them a fertile

Hollow-Brick Han Tomb

Hollow-Brick Han Tomb

During the Han Dynasty, stone and brick tombs of the wealthy were subterranean residences adorned with decorated walls and furnished with everything the occupant might need in the hereafter. At the south end of the ROM Gallery of Chinese Architecture lie two reconstructions of Han Dynasty tombs

The Nihewan Project

The Nihewan Project

The Early Pleistocene hominid occupations in East Asia (1.8 – 1 million years ago) This project’s objective is to find archaeological evidence related to hominid behaviours as well as the earliest hominid fossils in the Nihewan Basin, located in Hebei province about 150 km northwest from

Chinese Coins

Chinese Coins

The ROM is one of few museums in the world with a collection of comprehensive Chinese coins. The collection was researched to create a numismatic timeline for the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China. The display of 88 coins includes the best examples from the 3rd century BC to the end of the

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Michael Lee-Chin Crystal

Name Inspired by the ROM's unique mandate- to build bridges of understanding and appreciation for the world's diverse cultures and precious natural environments- Michael Lee-Chin's extraordinary $30 million gift to the ROM is an act of both gratitude and hope: gratitude to this

Charles T. Currelly

Charles Trick Currelly, more than anyone else, created the art and archaeology collections of the ROM. Currelly was born at Exeter, Ontario in 1876. Although trained as a Methodist minister, following his graduation from the University of Toronto, he devoted himself to archaeological work, first in

The Eaton Family

For much of the 20th century the Eaton family name was one of the most recognized in Canada. Timothy Eaton founded his first department store in 1869, in Toronto. The T. Eaton Company grew quickly and, by the late 1920s, had become the largest department store business in Canada. To commemorate the

Michael Lee-Chin

On April 2, 2003, the ROM announced a gift of $30 million towards the Renaissance ROM project, from Michael Lee-Chin—a man little known outside of business circles. This astonishing gift inaugurated the public fundraising campaign for Renaissance ROM. Lee-Chin was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica in