Royal Ontario Museum Bat Cave
The Royal Ontario Museum Bat Cave is a gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year ... that presents wax sculptures of bats in their simulated natural habitat. Consisting of twenty species of bats, among a variety of invertebrates, the gallery allows visitors to learn about bats behaviour and biology, through engaging in various educational panels, videos and models. It is currently located on the second level, of the Philosophers Walk Wing in the ROM’s Heritage Building. History The bat cave was originally built in the 1980s as a replica of the 3 km St. Clair Cave in Jamaica. In the early 2000s however, the Royal Ontario Museum received a grant to renovate the cave among two new Roman and Byzantine Galleries. Thus updated sound effe ...
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Royal Ontario Museum (9677646156)
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year, making it List of most-visited museums by region, the most-visited museum in Canada. It is north of Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park, in the University of Toronto district, with its main entrance on Bloor Street, Bloor Street West. Museum station (Toronto), Museum subway station is named after it and, since a 2008 renovation, is decorated to resemble the ROM's collection at the platform level. Established on April 16, 1912, and opened on March 19, 1914, the ROM has maintained close relations with the University of Toronto throughout its history, often sharing expertise and resources. It was under direct control and management of the University of Toronto until 1968, when it became an independent Crown agency (Ontario), Crown agency o ...
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