AR 2001 Layout_Final - Royal Ontario Museum

Programming
ROM Friday Nights—The ROM’s busiest day of the week—more than 160,000
visitors. Presenting Sponsor: Bell Canada.
16 Sundays—January 13 to April 28, 2002—Amazing musical performances
and curatorial presentations each Sunday. Supported by the Henry N. R. Jackman
Foundation and the J. P. Bickell Foundation.
March Break 2002—Our best-attended March Break ever—79,375 visitors in
just 10 days. Supported by Irwin Toy Limited.
Education—More than 171,000 visits from students, up from 151,000 in 2000/2001.
The ROM’s School Visits Program continues to be one of the most important
and highly regarded educational destinations in Ontario. Supported by CIBC.
Children’s Programs—Summer Club 2001, in its 60th year, produced its bestever
results. A new leadership program was introduced for 14- to 16-year-olds,
while a Swim and Sport exchange option was begun with Camp U of T.
Supported by the Imperial Oil Charitable Foundation. Saturday Morning Club
reintroduced 5-year-olds into afternoon sessions. The ROM’s March Break
camp, in its second year, showed strong enrollment numbers. Supported
by the Phillip and Berthe Morton Foundation.
ROMLife—9000 tickets were sold for adult programs ranging from single
lectures to eight-week courses.
Discovery and Hands-on Biodiversity Galleries—The Hands-on
Biodiversity Gallery, enhanced by a new Tall Grass Prairies and Savanna
exhibit, which opened during Ontario National Wildlife Week, had 190,000
visitors. The Discovery Gallery set a new attendance record with more
than 250,000 visits.
Department of Museum Volunteers—The Department of Museum
Volunteers (DMV) contributes significantly to the ROM with countless volunteer
hours and fundraising activities. Members of the highly trained Touring
Section greatly enhance the ROM visitors’ experience. ROM Walkers introduce
Toronto’s landmarks. ROM Travel and ROM Reproductions add to the ROM’s
bottom line by producing outstanding reproductions of our own remarkable
collections and by leading ROM members on exciting trips at home and abroad.
The DMV again produced the 10th Annual Studies in Silver and the annual
three-day Decorative Arts Symposium. (This year: Scotland and Away). Three
associate committees—The Bishop White Committee (Far Eastern), the Textile
and Costume Committee and the Friends of Canadiana Collections—are also
vital elements of the DMV.
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