Riverdale Rink Rat
Senior Member
Do we need to go through this again? The renovation was a huge expansion of floor space and exhibits. The parts of the new ROM space with natural light exhibit dinosaur bones. The renovated exhibit spaces and new crystal additions make the ROM finally a coherent museum where you can walk through the galleries in a circular fashion. The most confusing part of the museum these days is the temporary exhibit space on the top floor of the old building, which cuts off the flow every time they put something in there.
I know that there are lots of people who don't like the look of the crystal. But the renos that went on with the addition (light years better restaurants; bigger, more coherent temporary space in the basement, huge new galleries for Asian artifacts and the native gallery (instead of Druxy's(!)) and moving the Canadian gallery into where the temporary exhibits were before, etc., etc., etc.) make the museum way, way better. Do you really think that the old dinosaur dioramas, without the biggest and best skeletons exhibited because there was no space for them, were better than the current, light-filled gallery with better EVERYTHING? C'mon.
