🌿✨ First Visit to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)!

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has free admission on 3rd Tuesday Nights after 4:30pm (book via their website!). Doors close at 8:30pm.🙏🖼️ 🚇 TTC Subway Line 1 to Museum Station—too bad it’s under construction! Exit from the south and brace for a 4-5 min chilly walk to ROM (10°F, yikes!). Expect a queue and security check. Coat check costs $3 CAD 🧥💸. 🏛️ First Floor: China & Korea Mind-blown to see the tomb of Zu Dashou (a Ming Dynasty general) relocated from Beijing! His descendants donated it—must’ve survived Qing rule, implying he surrendered… 🤔😅 The curation is… meh. Artifacts are cramped, layered, and top items lack detail. Not avibe! Glass cases are super reflective too. 😒 The Chinese gallery has tons of Buddhas and murals—mostly from Shanxi! 🙏🖼️ 🦋 Second Floor: Biodiversity Insects, birds, fish, mammals—all behind glass. Feels like a natural history museum section. Dino exhibit’s under renovation. 🦖🚧 🎨 Third Floor: Evolution of Style Medieval to Victorian interior design—rooms styled like British eras. 🧥💸. Glass walls kill the vibe. 😒 European gallery has Rome/Byzantine stuff, but we were rushed out at 8:30pm. ⏰😩 ROM’s biggest flaw? No dedicated art galleries (unlike Boston’s MFA). I thought they had Rembrandts, but it was a loan from MFA Boston. 🥲 If a museum lacks paintings, it’s kinda… yawn. ROM’s smaller than MFA too. Biodiversity should’ve been in a separate museum (like NYC’s AMNH vs. Met). Feels padded.🌿✨ 🤷♀️ Still, better than nothing! Will return on another free day. #Canada #Toronto #ROM