July 28, 2022

ROM LETS YOU ROAM OUR WORLDS WITHOUT LEAVING OUR HOME, NATIVE LANDS

TORONTO — Staycations let you explore our world at your doorstep.

They are fun, entertaining, informative — and scary.

Muskoka may be the place to lollygag at the lake, but if a trip to capital city is means more than the Ex and CN Tower, your ROM is a cool place to go round the world in 80 minutes.

The Royal Ontario Museum is yours to re-discover. It offers a bit of everything — including currently Wonders of Nature, the Dawn of Life and #My Pandemic stories of COVID.

And of course dinosaurs — galore — and a commissioned art work like that of El Anatsui, a Mumbai artist who took discarded liquor bottle caps cut, flattened, twisted and tied them in to a massively stunning mural.

For kids there’s a ride-along with a Harry Potter inspired exhibit that lets you hob knob with powerful wizards that sound as scary as they are wondrous.

Mass Extinction dates back 252 million years and talks about how global warming nearly killed all life including almost 90 per cent of all marine life.

It offers slices of previous life that present a permanent representations of fossils embedded in rock and how they have been preserved through excavations you can touch and run your fingers through.

All in a less than a good day.

And that’s barely the beginning of what to be unearthed by touristy sleuths willing to let the minds wander about floors of history filled with overwhelming marvels that make this staycation destination a must after years of relative isolation.