Posted on 18/01/03
Inside the hidden kingdom
TORONTO -- For many people, the Royal Ontario Museum is a mystery, a forbidding hidden kingdom towering above Queen's Park in central Toronto. Driving by, one sees a trickle of souls going in and out of the imposing neo-Romanesque entrance, or the ever-present flotilla of school buses disgorging their freight of bleary-eyed students. Visiting the ROM, it seems, is a duty of Ontario childhood, a rite of passage gratefully abandoned in adulthood, if their current attendance records are any indication.
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