Cultural Exploration is Better When Shared

Within close proximity to our downtown Toronto hotel, guests have immediate access to world-class museums including the Royal Ontario Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario.

Royal Ontario Museum

Founded in 1912, the Royal Ontario Museum focuses on world culture and natural history. Containing more than six million items and forty galleries, the museum has notable collections of dinosaurs, Near Eastern and African art, East Asian art, European history, and Canadian history. It also houses the world's largest collection of fossils from the Burgess Shale with more than 150,000 specimens

There are now two main categories of galleries present in the ROM: the Natural History Galleries and the World Culture Galleries.

• The Natural History Galleries are all collected on the second floor of the museum, and contains collections and samples of various animals from around the world.
  • Gallery of Birds depicts several hundred bird specimens, illustrating the different habits and ecological niches they inhabit
  • Bat Cave, a reconstruction of the St. Clair cave in Jamaica, is filled with bats and other animals typically found in such caves, including spiders and snakes
  • Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-On Biodiversity provides visitors the opportunity to experience and examine the world of nature close-up
  • James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs and Gallery of the Age of Mammals feature examples of complete dinosaur skeletons, as well as those of early birds, reptiles, mammals, and marine animals, ranging from the Jurassic to Cretaceous periods
• The A.G. Leventis Foundation Gallery of Ancient Cyprus houses roughly 300 artifacts, ranging in age from 2200-30 BC.
  • The Chinese Galleries comprise four sections: the Bishop White Gallery of Chinese Temple Art, the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China, the Matthews Family Court of Chinese Sculpture, and the ROM Gallery of Chinese Architecture
  • Gallery of Africa: Egypt focuses on the life (and the afterlife) of Ancient Egyptians
  • Gallery of the Bronze Age Aegean contains almost 200 objects that include examples from the Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean periods of Ancient Greece
  • Gallery of Korea is the country's only permanent gallery devoted to Korean art and culture, ranging from stone-age tools to contemporary artworks
  • CIBC Discovery Gallery allows visitors to engage in interactive, hands-on learning in a family-friendly environment

Art Gallery of Ontario

Located in the Grange Park district of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario, or AGO to locals, is made up of more than 68,000 pieces of work spanning the 1st century through modern times. Among the collection, the museum houses the world's largest collection of Canadian art, which depicts the development of Canada's heritage from pre-Confederation to the present. In fact, Canadian artists make up more than half of the museum's exhibits.

In addition to Canadian artists, art aficionados will be drawn to an impressive collection of European art, including the largest collection of Renaissance and Medieval decorative arts outside of Europe or the United States. Distinguished artists' work includes Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Hals, Vincent Van Gough, Pablo Picasso and numerous others.

The AGO also has one of the most significant collections of African art in North America, as well as a contemporary art collection illustrating the evolution of modern artistic movements in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including works by Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Jenny Holzer.