Toronto Royal Ontario Museum | ?m | ?s | Daniel Libeskind

[Ramako]

That's the more exciting answer!

I called the ROM today to inquire and was told that it's just fencing to protect people from falling ice and snow.

 

[ADRM]

I called the ROM today to inquire and was told that it's just fencing to protect people from falling ice and snow.

Aaaand that's the least exciting thing possible.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

I was at the ROM last weekend and found lots of raccoon foot prints on the interior of the windows on the upper level. Raccoons definitely live inside the ROM. Kind of awesome

 

[jje1000]

Aaaand that's the least exciting thing possible.

Does the new plaza design take this into consideration? Hopefully they can put plantings under the areas with the most ice fall so that we won't to be constantly putting up fencing.

 

[TDotTeen]

I was at the ROM last weekend and found lots of raccoon foot prints on the interior of the windows on the upper level. Raccoons definitely live inside the ROM. Kind of awesome

Yeah I've actually seen racoons walking around the lobby as I've passed at night.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

I was at the ROM last weekend and found lots of raccoon foot prints on the interior of the windows on the upper level. Raccoons definitely live inside the ROM. Kind of awesome

Not so sure if I would say that - esp. considering the museum hosts precious artifacts.

AoD

 

[stjames2queenwest]

@AlvinofDiaspar Yes, bad potentially for the museum's collection. I'm sure as long as it doesn't get out of hand, it's probably not too terrible. I mean it survives school groups. Though I bet Japan's wooden temples probably thought they were fun at first too.
What I was actually meaning to say is that raccoons are awesome.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

@AlvinofDiaspar Yes, bad potentially for the museum's collection. I'm sure as long as it doesn't get out of hand, it's probably not too terrible. I mean it survives school groups. Though I bet Japan's wooden temples probably thought they were fun at first too.
What I was actually meaning to say is that raccoons are awesome.

The only form of raccoon that should be in the ROM is taxidermied or skeletonized.

AoD

 

[Johnny Au]

I don't know if similar museums (such as the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum, etc.) had raccoon infestations.

 

[GeneralGrievance]

Some years back I worked at the ROM gift store as a summer job. At night, we had to lock up all the food in a separate cupboard. Otherwise, we'd find chocolatey racoon footprints all over the place in the morning. Sometimes we'd get squirrels too. So yeah, there was most definitely a raccoon problem. And then some.

 

[am29]

This Raccoons in the museum at night seems like a great plot for a Disney/Pixar animated movie.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

This Raccoons in the museum at night seems like a great plot for a Disney/Pixar animated movie.

"Night at the Museum" played by raccoons?

AoD

 

[am29]

"Night at the Museum" played by raccoons?

AoD

 

[ADRM]

Seen this morn; looks more like construction-type action (I hope) as opposed to just falling ice protection...

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

That definitely doesn't look like hording for ice-falls (the latter was more yellow tape and removable fencing)

AoD