A staple in the Toronto community and an icon the world over, the Royal Ontario Museum is an invaluable resource that nurtures discovery and inspires wonder. The ROM invites all visitors to explore our world's rich and diverse cultural and natural histories. Visiting the Royal Ontario Museum is simply a must for tourists and Toronto locals alike. Come learn, play and discover by visiting the ROM today.
The Museum's collections have grown over the years and now number over 12,500 artifacts: far too many to be all on display at once! In order to highlight different aspects of the collections, we offer three time-limited changing exhibitions as well as one semi-permanent exhibition.
Friendly Entertainment & Promotion Company had its beginning in 1979, when engineer John Quarterly first arrived in Canada and started doing volunteer work for the Canadian Opera Company, as a clown at Toronto's Harbourfront, while adding magic and juggling to routines that developed into The Amazing Dickens, an original and successful magic, mindreading, and clown act, later followed by Friendly the Clown, who specializes in performing for children's parties, parties for grownups, and walkabouts for corporate and retail events.