Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

The Royal Ontario Museum is one of the ten largest in North America, with over thirteen million objects spanning six continents and six million years of natural and human history. This private tour gives you a dedicated museum specialist to guide every step.

It begins with the building itself, where Daniel Libeskind's Michael Lee-Chin Crystal erupts in prisms of aluminium and glass from the original 1914 building. Inside, the dinosaur galleries rise through the atrium with towering skeletons excavated from the badlands of Alberta, while the ancient world galleries take you through Egypt, Greece, Rome and Mesopotamia. The Chinese architecture galleries, with full-scale temple installations reassembled within the museum, are the kind of thing few visitors expect to find in the middle of Toronto.

The First Peoples galleries may be the most moving spaces in the building, presenting the cultures and histories of Canada's Indigenous peoples through objects and art of real power. Throughout, your guide brings the stories and context that make each gallery come alive, shaped around your interests rather than a fixed route.