Toronto, Kanada2-3 hoursWeekdays
Royal Ontario Museum
Ideal: Ideal for museums, culture, history, family visits, indoor activities, and learning-focused trips.
Founded in 1912, the museum is Canada's largest with more than 13 million objects. The real debate is not the collection but the building: Daniel Libeskind's 2007 Crystal addition — aluminium-and-glass prisms with no right angles — looks thrust into the historic façade. The structure appears on architecture award lists and 'world's ugliest buildings' round-ups at the same time; Torontonians still haven't agreed on it.
Quick facts
- Built
- 16 April 1912
- Opened
- 14 March 1914
- Annual visitors
- 1.3 million
Facts from Wikidata, photos from Wikimedia Commons.
Why go?
- To visit one of Toronto's largest and most comprehensive museums
- To explore history, nature, art, and culture under one roof
- For a quality indoor route on rainy or cold days
Travel tip
The museum is huge — pick the galleries you want beforehand, or seeing everything can take a very long day.
