Public Museum: ROM Opens Ten New Galleries to the Public
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) welcomed the public to the first new galleries of Renaissance ROM, the Museum's expansion and restoration project. The Museum unveiled 90,000 square feet (8,100 square metres) of public space, featuring ten new galleries, in the Museum's historic buildings. The openings include a new wing for the art and archaeology of China, Japan and Korea, a gallery featuring artifacts and art from Canada's First Peoples, and several renovated public areas. Two original ROM exhibitions, Déco Lalique and Korea Around 1900: The Paintings of Gisan, also opened. Through the morning, visitors lining up to buy their tickets were entertained by MorningStar River, a group of Native Canadian drummers and singers at the Loblaws Entrance at the south end of the Museum.
The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga.
The ceremony and public program in the Museum's Great Hall featured an illustrated lecture by Ms. Lambert, Ironies in the Public Life of Architecture: The Seagram Building, 1954-58, focusing on the public reception and long-term impact of the Seagram Building on architectural culture.
Her talk was preceded by opening remarks from Chase Rynd, executive director of the Museum, tributes from the Honorable Frank McKenna, ambassador of Canada to the United States of America; Pierre Théberge, director of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; and Elizabeth Diller, founding principal of Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, and a presentation of the Prize by David Schwarz, chair of the Scully Prize Jury. |
