This Halloween at the ROM: Ghouls, Goblins and Fun

Scare up some fun at the ROM Saturday, October 31, 2009

Celebrate Halloween at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) on Saturday, October 31, 2009. Visitors are invited to don their costumes and enjoy the fun, Halloween-themed activities at the Museum including ghost tours, Halloween crafts and more. Activities take place from 11 am to 4 pm in the Rotunda on level 1 of the Museum’s Historic Wing. All Halloween activities are free with ROM admission.

As part of the festivities little ghosts and goblins will meet ROM’s founder and most famous ghost, Dr. Charles Trick Currelly. Around the museum visitors will encounter spirits including Cleopatra, Richard Lionheart and Joan Crawford. These famous ghosts will bring the past to life with stories from their own time. Visitors can also meet some real life creepy crawlies in the Halloween activity area, and make fun bat or spider crafts to take home.

ROM founder Dr. Charles Trick Currelly was an archaeologist who loved collecting and adventure. He worked in Egypt, Crete and Asia Minor and traveled around the world looking for artifacts for the museum. Currelly dedicated his life to the ROM and believed that museums had an educational purpose: to display the material achievements of humanity through all time, so as to inspire the present-day. Some say that he still visits the ROM from time to time, just to keep an eye on things.