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From the Legislative Building, it's a brief walk north along Queen's Park Boulevard to the Royal Ontario Museum (Mon-Thurs & Sat 10am-6pm, Fri 10am-9.30pm, Sun 11am-6pm; $15, free after 4.30pm on Fri). Known locally as the ROM, this is Canada's largest and most diverse museum, with ambitious collections of fine and applied art from all over the world as well as a first-rate programme of temporary exhibitions. With over forty different galleries and six million objects and artefacts, the ROM can be overwhelming, and there's precious little point in trying to see everything - at least not on one visit. In addition, some departments, notably the Chinese collections, have first-rate displays of international significance; others, like the Greco-Roman and Medieval European galleries, merely give representation to their subject areas and shouldn't be ranked too high on a must-see list. In this account we have stuck to the highlights. Museum plans are available for free at the entrance. The ROM makes a cheerful start with a domed and vaulted entrance hall whose ceiling is decorated with a brilliant mosaic of imported Venetian glass. Just beyond, bolted into the stairwells, are four colossal aboriginal Haida and Nisga'a crest poles (also known as totem poles). Amazing elemental objects (the tallest is 24.5 metres high) and dating from the 1880s, they're decorated with stylized carvings representing the supernatural animals and birds, origins and rights that were associated with particular clans.
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