Hi, Dear Steemit community 

In this post, I would bring you inside a museum If you check in my previous post, Toronto had recently some brutal snowstorms and temperature widely below zero.  Fortunately, the temperature raised in the following days even if it was cloudy.  My curiosity leads me to the Royal Museum of Ontario. 
A definitely large museum which collects many witnesses, object and writings from different eras and locations.  The building is mostly divided into the three levels plus level considers B1 and B2 and a fourth one. In any of those three levels, there is a section dedicated to special events or exhibitions.

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 The first section visited is dedicated to Chinese sculpture, architecture, and history.  From the Han dynasty (from 2nd to 9th centuries AD) the period between Tang and Ming dynasties, during the Song dynasty (from 10th to 13th century AD) and the following Mongol Yuan dynasty (from the 13th century to 14th century AD).  During this last period, China was part of an empire which included a large territory from Hungary to Korea. 

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Also, Statues of Buddha well preserved and object from Korea and Japan.

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In the same floor, we can find another section belonging to Canadian art and culture and the first people. Again here history and you know Canada has a history formally based on colonialism on these lands populated by indigenous people.

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It is told that the European settlement become in 1497  and in 1867 Canada became a nation and in this section is preserved arts, craft, and culture of that period. Officially in the 15th century, this colonialism began and mostly in the Atlantic Coast.

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Accordingly over the years the relationship with indigenous people and European turn from peaceful into violent, and this section focus on this complicated and intricated period in Canada.

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The colonization of Quebec began in the 17th century, it is told that the first purpose of the colonization was mostly economic to supply France with resources. And the Catholic church was part of the Early Canadian French society and in this section a witness of that 

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In the same section also some artifacts of the first people who inhabited what we name Canada.
Objects owned by indigenous people to realize their tradition, culture, and identity.

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The level two immerge the visitor mostly to the science and whole section are dedicated to that.  From the era of dinosaurs to mammal while other rooms are dedicated to the idea of biodiversity.

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The level third is dedicated again to the history archeology.  A whole room dedicated to Greece, Ancient Cyprus. 

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Some object from the Middle Age and again from Eastern Asia.

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To visit the museum requires at least three hours depending on individual purpose or interests.  The rooms and what is preserved is wide enough.  And I did not mention the rooms in which there are separated exhibitions.  

Best Regards

(All the photos are my own property)

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