ROM gets up to $2.75M in stimulus funding
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 12:19 PM ET
CBC News
Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum is getting a boost of up to $2.75 million from the federal government's stimulus funding program to help revive three galleries.
Transport and Infrastructure Minister John Baird joined officials at the museum Tuesday morning for the announcement.
Coming from the government's Infrastructure Stimulus Fund, the grant is earmarked for the refurbishing and updating of the perennially popular Bat Cave exhibit — underway and already scheduled for reopening in late February — as well as for the establishment of Byzantine and Roman galleries in the ROM's original heritage building.
While the ROM underwent its Renaissance ROM renovation and expansion, several large spaces in the original building were kept free to play host to temporary exhibits.
The federal funds "will allow the ROM to bring hundreds of artifacts and specimens out of storage to public view, many for the first time," ROM board of trustees chair Salvatore Badali said in a statement.
The two new permanent galleries, which will also be partially supported by private donations, will be the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of Byzantium and the Eaton Gallery of Rome. They are expected to open by 2011.
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