The Royal Ontario Museum, 1950s. Image courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1128, Item 7.
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Resource ID
10569
Access
Open
Credit Line
City of Toronto Archives
Date of Creation
1950
Keywords
theatre history, alternative theatre
Program Category
Tours
Rights
Public Domain
Caption
The Royal Ontario Museum, 1950s. Image courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1128, Item 7.
Description
The Royal Ontario Museum entrance as it looked when Dora Mavor Moore took over the theatre. By the 1950s, the separate museums of Archaeology, Palaeontology, Mineralogy, Zoology, and Geology had been amalgamated. Moore used the fact that her father had connected the archaeologist Flinders Petrie with one of the ROM’s co-founders to stake her claim on the theatre space within.