Last Chance to Catch Spiders: Fear & Fascination

TORONTO, December 11, 2018— The Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) feature exhibition Spiders: Fear & Fascination wraps up on Sunday, January 6, 2019. This is the last chance to explore the hunting, burrowing, and weaving world of spiders, with over 400 live and preserved specimens, including some of the world’s biggest and most venomous. Museum visitors can experience the final days of this immersive, interactive, and family-friendly exhibition during ROM for the Holidays from Wednesday, December 26, 2018 to Sunday, January 6, 2019.

Visitors of all ages have been in awe of the Spider Wranglers, the trained ROM technicians and arachnid caretakers who perform live venom milking demonstrations and special show-and-tell sessions in the Spider Lab. Real specimens plus interactive games, video projection technology, and larger-than-life models allow people to get closer than ever to some of the over 48,000 known spider species, from the top ten local spiders to the world’s most notorious, like the black widow, Goliath Birdeater, and Brazilian wandering spider.TORONTO, December 11, 2018— The Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) feature exhibition Spiders: Fear & Fascination wraps up on Sunday, January 6, 2019. This is the last chance to explore the hunting, burrowing, and weaving world of spiders, with over 400 live and preserved specimens, including some of the world’s biggest and most venomous. Museum visitors can experience the final days of this immersive, interactive, and family-friendly exhibition during ROM for the Holidays from Wednesday, December 26, 2018 to Sunday, January 6, 2019.

Developed by the Australian Museum and toured internationally by Flying Fish, Spiders: Fear & Fascination is a separately ticketed exhibition on display in the Museum’s Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall. ROM Members always enjoy free admission.

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