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Article: Digging through ROM history for clues about how these behemoth skeletons made a move.(Dinosaurs Get a Move On)
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- ROM Magazine
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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In December 2005, for the first time ever, two dinosaurs were installed on the ROM's main floor, giving them new prominence for visitors entering the building. With the opening of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, Prosaurolophus and Edmontosaurus are visible from the new Bloor Street entrance--a fitting drawing card for a museum famous for its hadrosaur collection. While the placement of these dinosaurs within the building is new, their presence at the ROM is not. Visitors may remember them from the much-loved Alberta Badlands exhibit in the old dinosaur gallery that closed in January 2005.
As coordinating curator for the new James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of ...