THE SEASON OF STEEL Royal Ontario MuseumAnnual l Report Annual 2006/2007 Report 2004/2005

CONTENTS

ROM Board of Trustees 2006/2007 2 ROM Governors 2006/2007 3 Renaissance ROM Campaign 4 Message from the Chair of the Board of Trustees and the Director and CEO 6 Message from the Chair of the ROM Governors and the President and Executive Director 7 Countdown to the Crystal 8 Exhibitions 10 Reaching Out 12 Programming 14 New Acquisitions 17 Donors, Patrons, Sponsors 18 ROM Financial Statements 32

1 ROM BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2006/2007

TRUSTEES HONOURARY TRUSTEES Kenneth Harrigan Dixie-Anne Montgomery Patricia Harris Maureen Myers Salvatore Badali, Chair Jean Read, Chair Albert Hearn Fernand Ouellet Ann Dumyn, Vice-Chair Ella (Yeti) Agnew Philip Holtby John Prato Jack Cockwell, Past-Chair Maurice Anderson Evelyn Huang Edison Quick Elyse Allan Bluma Appel Rodger Inglis Joan Randall Martin Brodigan Salvatore Badali Richard M. Ivey Wendy Rebanks Susan Crocker Lawrence Bloomberg Peter Janson Flavia Redelmeier Andrew Faas Gerald Boyce Tom Kierans Grant Reuber Lloyd Fogler Robert Boyer Bronwyn Krog John Rhind Hamlin Grange Marian Bradshaw Stanley Kwan Julie Rickerd Paul Haggis Sally Brenzel Gerald Leventson Mary-O Rohmer Martha Hogarth Jo Breyfogle Michael Levine Elizabeth Samuel Christine Karcza Donald R. Brown Elsie Lo Thomas Savage Sandra Lawrence Robert Brown Susanne Loewen Warren Seyffert David Mirvish Ann Cameron Stephens B. Lowden Robert Stevens Dr. David Naylor (ex-officio, Linda Camp Ronald MacFeeters Clair Stewart President, University of Allen Clarke Leila MacKenzie David Strangway Toronto) George Connell Bahadur Madhani Joey Tanenbaum Hari Panday James Cruise Douglas Maracle Joan Thompson Rose Patten (ex-officio, The Hon.William G. Davis Mme. A. Martin Sara Vered Chair, Governing Council, Dorothy Dunlop Katharine Masters Harriet Walker University of Toronto) Ernest DuVernet Gilles Matte Richard Wernham Marilyn Pilkington Nicole Eaton Brenda McCutcheon Reginald Wheeler Barbara Stymiest John Eleen James W. McCutcheon John Whitten William Thorsell (ex-officio, Joan Fitzpatrick William L. McDonald David Winfield Director, ROM) Helen Gardiner Elizabeth McLuhan Judith Wolfson Robert Gillespie John McNeill H. Donald Guthrie Alan Middleton

2 ROM GOVERNORS 2006/2007

ROM BOARD OF GOVERNORS HERITAGE GOVERNORS NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE Kristine Martin Brenda McCutcheon James Temerty, Chair Joan Randall, Co-Chair James Temerty, Chair Stephen Shaw John F. Driscoll, Vice-Chair Joan Thompson, Co-Chair Jack Cockwell Julie Taylor Pantziris Linda Hasenfratz, Vice-Chair Kenneth W. Harrigan, Past Co-Chair John F. Driscoll Suresh Thakrar Shreyas Ajmera Bluma Appel Linda Hasenfratz Tim Tremain Salvatore (Sal) Badali, Ex-Officio Robert D. Brown James W. McCutcheon, Q.C. Harriet Walker Rudy Bratty Joan E. Fitzpatrick David Palmer Ellen Waslen G. Raymond Chang Robert Gillespie Sharon Zuckerman Jack Cockwell Ned Goodman CURRELLY SOCIETY Michael Detlefsen Patricia Harris EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DONOR RELATIONS AND Nicole Eaton Hon. Henry N.R Jackman Gwen Harvey, Chair RECOGNITION TASK FORCE W. Robert Farquharson Thomas Kierans James Cameron Nicole Eaton, Chair Gwen Harvey Elsie Lo Frederica Fleming Kelvin Browne Jennifer Ivey Bannock Susanne Loewen Lloyd S. Fogler, Q.C. Wendy Rebanks Michael Lee-Chin Stephens B. Lowden H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C. James Temerty Rebecca MacDonald Brenda McCutcheon Dixie Anne Montgomery Joan Thompson Hon. Roy MacLaren Jack McOuat Jean Randall David Palmer James W. McCutcheon Frank Milligan Jean M. Read Jack Mintz Dixie-Anne Montgomery William Thorsell Peter Oliver Frank Potter ROYAL PATRONS’ CIRCLE David Palmer Wendy Rebanks DONOR EVENTS COMMITTEE COMMITTEE Robert E. Pierce Flavia Redelmeier Robert Pierce, Chair Michael E. Detlefsen, Chair Joan Randall, Ex-Officio John A. Rhind Jennifer Ivey Bannock Richard Costley-White, Vice-Chair Elizabeth Samuel William Saunderson Cawthra Burns Diana White, Vice-Chair Joey Tanenbaum Thomas Savage Monica Carr Anne-Marie H. Applin Joan Thompson, Ex-Officio Lynton (Red) R. Wilson Susan Crocker Lorraine Bell William Thorsell, Ex-Officio Stephen Dembroski Borys Chabursky Rita Tsang FINANCE COMMITTEE Marcus Doyle Nina Chagnon Harriet Walker W. Robert Farquharson, Chair Nicole Eaton Ann Curran V. Prem Watsa Jack Mintz Ann Holtby Michael Damm Richard Wernham David Palmer Eric Jackson Petrina Dolby Robert E. Pierce Rita Tsang A. Harold Garfinkle James Temerty Harriet Walker Peter H. Harris, Q.C. V. Prem Watsa Cheryl Heyd Donald A. Wright Denice Klein

3 RENAISSANCE ROM CAMPAIGN 2006/2007

CAMPAIGN CHAIR HONOURARY PATRON The Hon. Hilary M. Weston Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado

CAMPAIGN EXECUTIVE Peter Janson HONOURARY CABINET ADVISORS Peter C. Jones Rudolph Bratty Mr. Nicolas Armour Mr. Kim Sung Chul Chris Jordan Jack Cockwell Consul General Consul General Bipin Khimasia John F. Driscoll British Consulate General, Toronto Consulate General of the Republic Thomas Kierans Linda Hasenfratz of Korea Hiroshi Kobayashi John Hunkin Madame Chen Xiaoling Stanley Kwan Michael Lee-Chin Consul General Mr. Satish Mehta Elsie Lo G. Wallace McCain People's Republic of China, Toronto Consul General Susanne Loewen James W. McCutcheon Consulate General of India Stephens B. Lowden Belinda Stronach Mr. Efthymios Efthymiades Bahadur Madhani Joseph M. Tanenbaum Consul General Ambassador C. S. Poolokasingham Malika Mendez James Temerty Consulate General of Greece Consul General Jack Mintz William Thorsell Democratic Socialist Republic of David Mirvish Rita Tsang Ms. Penelope Erotokritou Sri Lanka Elizabeth Muir Consul General Masaaki Murakami CAMPAIGN CABINET Consulate General of the Republic Mr. Kunjar Sharma Tamotsu Nakamura of Cyprus Honourary Consul General Shreyas Ajmera Peter Oliver Royal Nepalese Consulate General Bluma Appel Deanne Orr Mr. Ghalib Iqbal Joe Brennan Robert E. Pierce Consul General Mr. Bassanio So Kelvin Browne Frank Potter Consulate General of Pakistan Director, Toronto Monica Carr Jean Read Hong Kong Economic & Trade Hon. David Crombie John A. Rhind Mr. Koichi Kawakami Office Hon. William G. Davis Elizabeth J. Samuel Consul General Michael Detlefsen Irene So Consulate General of Japan Mr. T. T. Tsui Roman Dubczak Suresh Thakrar Wanchai, Hong Kong Robert Gillespie Kenji Tomikawa Natasha Gurevich Harriet Walker Kenneth W. Harrigan Prem Watsa Patricia Harris Richard Wernham William B. Harris Doug Wilson Gwen Harvey Lynton R. Wilson Martha Hogarth Robert C. Wong Donna Ihnatowycz Richard Wookey Jennifer Ivey Bannock Sharon Zuckerman The Hon. Henry N.R. Jackman

4 ROM palaeontologist Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron presenting at the 28th Annual Royal Ontario Museum Research Colloquium. This year the journal Science published the article Halwaxiids and the Early Evolution of the Lophotrochozoans, co-written by Dr. Caron and Dr. Simon Conway Morris from the University of Cambridge in England.

5 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND THE DIRECTOR AND CEO

Through its current expansion, the Royal Ontario Museum is We will root these new attractors in a much stronger classic museum undertaking one of Canada’s largest cultural rebuilding initiatives, experience, through the projection of all our major collections in 27 new creating a much broader set of “value propositions” for our diverse and beautiful permanent galleries. As a universal museum of cultures population. While public funds are essential to the project and were and of natural history, the ROM has the luxury of addressing a wide an early catalyst for success, some 70 per cent of our capital comes swath of public interests by its very nature. from private sector philanthropy, much of it raised from the new communities that have joined our region. In this ambitious endeavor, The Museum is investing in its capacity as a knowledge destination by we are striving to become something of a new Agora, or marketplace, providing additional varied and engaging routes of intellectual access for the community, diversifying our purpose and appeal in five to its academic work and collections, for everyone from students to complementary categories. seniors. Finally, the virtual museum will share fully in the world’s digital conversation through publications, the internet and all the new media The Museum will become a primary civic destination and force for urban of communication and participation. renewal through the creation of great new architecture, the most public of the arts. In Daniel Libeskind’s innovative design, we have a new Today in Western societies, the community centre can be the relationship with the City of Toronto through the Michael Lee-Chin cosmopolitan museum grounded in first rank collections, research and Crystal—with an entrance pavilion emphasizing transparency and education—with a good dollop of human interest. The ROM is doing engagement with the surrounding urban fabric—referring to the what many great museums have been doing for the past 30 years— future rather than the past. becoming the new Agora by expanding our mission and acting as an agent of social integration. So doing, we will generate the revenues and The ROM will also become a lively social destination through diverse capture the public interest required to sustain the core of the Museum programming and amenities that attract more visitors. Among the in its classic and essential sense. important values here is accessibility for persons with disabilities, a result of our consultation in the design process. In addition, we will feature the art, music, spirituality and cuisine of different cultures in the city—much of it produced by them. There is a strong commitment to contemporary culture in dialogue with the past. And of course, the Salvatore Badali William Thorsell Chair of the Board of Trustees Director and CEO Museum will be an intriguing venue simply to meet other people, Royal Ontario Museum Royal Ontario Museum elegantly.

6 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR OF THE ROM GOVERNORS AND THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal transformed dramatically over the past enthusiasm for the ROM is generating incredible buzz and driving fiscal year. Through much of this year, staff and the public alike have renewed interest in the Museum. watched workers install windows and lay sheet after long sheet of aluminum cladding on the iconic steel-framed structure. The dream is This strong momentum is carrying the ROM swiftly toward the quickly becoming a reality, reminding us on a daily basis of the much Architectural Opening and Building Dedication of the Michael Lee- anticipated opening in June. Chin Crystal on June 1st and 2nd. As a result, this fiscal year has also been one of extensive preparation for these opening ceremonies. As the construction has progressed, the ROM Governors—in the Staff, board members, and committees have been extraordinarily busy second year under its new name—reached a campaign milestone of organizing the June events—the Singular Event, the Big Bang Party $250 million. This represents $178 million in private sector support, an and World of Possibilities. increase of $48.3 million from a year ago. Renaissance ROM has clearly enabled the Governors to come to The realization of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal is but one amazing the fore as a major vector for change and growth in the Museum. achievement of Renaissance ROM. Great swells of support and public The ROM Governors has been instrumental in leading the successful involvement have spilled over into other areas of the Museum— brand Renaissance ROM, as well as in generating new revenue sources expanding the scope of the Campaign—by providing critical funding and expanding the scope of the Campaign. We will be seeking an to curatorial and programming areas. Two gifts of note that have additional $28 million to cover all project and financing costs required achieved this are from the Robert Schad family in support of to complete both the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal addition and a further biodiversity, and from Teck Cominco Limited in support of earth phase of renovated galleries within the ROM’s historic buildings by sciences. Both will establish cutting-edge, innovative galleries, support early 2009. With the Governors’ expanded role in the Museum, we are programs and research, and generate leading national centres in these well-positioned to bring the Campaign to a successful conclusion and respective fields. launch exciting new initiatives that will further transform the Museum for the 21st century. Also in its second year, the Young Patrons’ Circle has blossomed into a vibrant entity of dynamic, engaged young professionals. Buoyed by the momentum of the Renaissance ROM Campaign, the group continues to organize innovative events and programs to capture the energy of James Temerty David Palmer 19- to 44-year-olds. The YPC celebrated its second annual PROM, Chair President and Executive Director its signature event, on March 31 with more than 700 guests. Their ROM Board of Governors ROM Board of Governors

7 recently-completed Chinese galleries in the beautifully- COUNTDOWN TO THE CRYSTAL restored main floor of the Philosophers’ Walk building.

ROM staff continued to plan the strategic and operational requirements of operating a larger facility, once the 175,000 square-foot Lee-Chin Crystal opens. A Crystal Opening Steering Committee was struck to coordinate the logistical aspects of moving into the new building, maximizing service excellence and achieving cost efficiencies. Sal Badali assumed his role as Chair of the ROM Board of Trustees. Restaurant Associates/ Compass Canada signed on as our new food service partner, beginning by opening the Rotunda Café over the summer.

In June the ROM’s largest building was officially renamed the Louise Hawley Stone Curatorial Centre in recognition of Mrs. Stone’s transformative $50 million bequest in 1997, which propelled the Museum to a new level by supporting acquisitions The photographs, taken from the same vantage point from the top of the Park Hyatt hotel, and publications. The Stone Charitable Trust has funded the show the amount of work accomplished between March 2006 and March 2007. purchase of stunning new objects for the galleries of the Lee-Chin Crystal, existing ROM galleries and the publication After last year’s short nine-month fiscal period, the 2006/2007 of our ROM Field Guide series, exhibition catalogues and more. fiscal year began as the closing-in of the steel structure of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal continued with full At the launch of Toronto’s new arts festival, it was announced force, in order to waterproof the building so that interior that the opening of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal would work could begin, and to meet ever-tightening timelines. form part of Luminato’s opening weekend in June 2007. From that moment, the opening date was set in stone and The March 2006 budget of the Ontario Government delivered the ROM’s Boards and senior managers were determined a cash boost in the form of an additional $12 million for capital not to allow any further slippage in construction target dates. costs, bringing their total contribution to the Renaissance ROM project to $42 million. For the rest of the year, the Several new gallery names were announced in September ROM and the other Big Six cultural infrastructure projects to honour major contributors to Renaissance ROM: the in Toronto held their breath in hopes of receiving a matching Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples; the Jim $12 million from the federal government, but the fiscal and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs; the year ended with no funding yet announced from Ottawa. Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-on Biodiversity; the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation Exhibit: Exploration Renaissance ROM’s China Initiative celebrated its success and Encounters (the Paul Kane exhibit); and the Shreyas and on April 6, 2006, with the official opening of the four Mina Ajmera Gallery of Africa, Americas and Asia Pacific.

8 Also, the ROM’s Accessibility Initiative for persons with A wonderful $12 million gift from Robert Schad in November disabilities received crucial support from Shoppers Drug allowed the ROM to announce the creation of the Schad Family Mart and a ten-year gift from Joey and Toby Tanenbaum. Gallery of Life in Crisis for 2009 on the second floor of the Centre Block, plus a fund to support research and programme In July, the Institute for Contemporary Culture welcomed development. This is a key event in the establishment of a new Ron Graham as the new Chair of its Board of Directors and National Centre for Conservation and Biodiversity at the ROM. announced the inaugural Eva Holtby Lecture on Contemporary Culture for October 13, 2006, featuring writer Adam Gopnik’s Then, in early January the ROM was fortunate to receive a penetrating thoughts on The Museum Today. A number of gift of $10 million from Teck Cominco Limited to establish innovative new programmes were also launched. For the the Teck Cominco Suite of Earth Sciences Galleries on the August international AIDS conference in Toronto, the ICC second floor of the Weston Family Wing and bring the Canadian presented an outdoor installation of General Idea’s famous Mining Hall of Fame to the Museum. The gift also creates AIDS sculpture at our highly visible Bloor Street corner. an endowed Chair in Mineralogy. The new year also brought the renovation of the Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre, The city’s first Nuit Blanche on September 30, a free all night and the introduction of our first-ever ROM Audio Guides. celebration of contemporary art, came to the ROM with a vengeance; over 14,000 people came to see the ICC’s Carlos In early March, the ROM announced the details of the June Garaicoa exhibition plus special Cuban themed programming. 2nd Architectural Opening and Building Dedication public celebration. Plans were launched to support the opening of Delays in the installation of the waterproof sub-layer of the the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal with two innovative online exterior cladding resulted in the move of the exhibition initiatives: a new micro-web site and an online newsroom. Italian Arts & Design: The 20th Century from its original venue in the Lee-Chin Crystal to the third floor of the Centre Mid-March was extremely busy in the Museum, as it is Block. This required a remarkably quick response from the every year for the week of March Break. The relocated and exhibition team, but their nimbleness resulted in delay of expanded CIBC Discovery Gallery opened in its new location only one week in the public opening of the exhibition, on the second floor of the Philosophers’ Walk building. This on October 28. Front of house ROM staff began to wear coincided with the opening of the exhibition Ancient Peru their stylish new uniforms and the ROM Museum Store, Unearthed: Golden Treasures of a Lost Civilization, augmented by operated by our retail partner, Event Network, opened its first special family programming and an expansion of the ROM incarnation on the second floor to coincide with the opening. Museum Store with themed merchandise. Attendance for the year was strong, with 676,179 people visiting the ROM. Inside the Lee-Chin Crystal, the pace of work accelerated significantly in the fall once waterproofing of the exterior And the march towards the June opening of the skin was complete. Dry walling, electrical work, floor Lee-Chin Crystal continued to increase its pace… installation, finishes and painting then began on a massive scale. The final aluminum cladding strips began to be visible on the west Crystal on Bloor Street early in 2007 and were more than half installed by the fiscal year-end.

9 exhibition presented architectural models, working drawings, EXHIBITIONS gallery designs, and computer-generated gallery views of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Closed Fall 2006 Déco Lalique Renaissance ROM Gallery Celebrating designs by renowned French artist René Lalique, this exhibition comprised over 60 exquisite pieces created by this famed French designer or by manufacturers working AIDS Sculpture during Lalique’s time and clearly influenced by his style. Celebrating the XVI International AIDS Conference in Almost all the objects on display were drawn from the ROM's Toronto, the six-foot, graffiti-covered AIDS sculpture was on own outstanding holdings, now arguably the largest and most display on the ROM Plaza, at the southwest corner of Bloor representative of Lalique glass models of any North American Street West and Queen's Park. Inspired by Robert Indiana's museum. iconic 1970 LOVE sculpture, the piece was created by the December 26, 2005 to March 18, 2007 Canadian art collective General Idea in 1989. European Temporary Exhibition Gallery The Institute for Contemporary Culture thanks AA Bronson for the loan of this work. Sponsor: TD Canada Trust Korea Around 1900 – The Paintings of Gisan August 12 to October 1, 2006 The inaugural installation in the redesigned Herman Herzog Levy Gallery, the exhibit showcased the colourful genre paintings of turn-of-the-20th century Korean artist Gim Gisan. Approximately 50 watercolour and ink paintings dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries were on view, along with a number of related artifacts from the ROM’s renowned East Asian collections. Exhibit Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Canada December 26, 2005 to October 29, 2006 Herman Herzog Levy Gallery

Views of Our Future Dedicated to the gallery development process and the AIDS, 1989 General Idea architecture of the ROM's expansion project, this evolving lacquered metal View of General Idea's AIDS sculpture displayed outside the ROM at the corner of Bloor St. West and Queen's Park.

10 Carlos Garaicoa Heaven or Hell: Images of Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Deities This exhibition of works by Carlos Garaicoa, one of Cuba’s and Immortals leading contemporary artists, presented architectural models, A fascinating exploration of Buddhist and Daoist deities, this renderings, drawings, photography, and videos, to examine ROM-original exhibition features paintings and prints from contemporary culture, exploring such themes as architecture, the 10th to 20th centuries—works that express the prevailing urbanism, politics, history and human culture. Chinese religious and philosophical thinking of the time. Presented by: Sentry Select Capital Corp. Exhibit Sponsor: Manulife Financial Carlos Garaicoa is organized by The Museum of Contemporary November 25, 2006 to Summer 2007 Art, Los Angeles. The exhibition is made possible with the Herman Herzog Levy Gallery generous support of the Jumex Fund for Contemporary Latin American Art; the Katherine S. Marmor Award; Mary and Robert Looker; Mandy and Clifford J. Einstein; David Hockney; Jennifer McSweeney and Peter Reuss; Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy; and the City of West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission. September 9 to December 31, 2006 Weston Family Wing

Italian Arts and Design: The 20th Century The inaugural installation in the newly renovated third floor Centre Block space, the exhibition brought together nearly 300 outstanding and well known works of 20th-century Italian art and design, including a full range of objects from furniture and glass to textiles and ceramics, as well as paintings, sculpture, photography, and architectural drawings. This exhibition was produced by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museo Mart, Rovereto, Italy. Presented by: Sentry Select Capital Corp. Exhibit Patron: One Bedford by Lanterra October 28, 2006 to January 7, 2007 Third floor Centre Block Gli italiani si voltano (The Italians Turn Around), 1953 Mario De Biasi (1923- ) Gelatin silver print 30.5 x 40 cm Mario De Biasi Collection, Milan 11 REACHING OUT

Ancient Peru Unearthed: Golden Treasures of a Lost Civilization The ROM reached out to external audiences last year in Over 120 elaborately-crafted headdresses, crowns and pieces number of ways. The ROM’s Outreach programs were enjoyed of pottery and jewellery, uncovered in an undisturbed gold- by a total of 674,938 visitors. filled tomb, exploring the rich history and artistry of the Sicán civilization of Ancient Peru. Travelling Exhibits Sponsor: AMJ Campbell Inc. Presented by: HSBC Bank Canada Financially assisted by: Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund Enjoyed by approximately 613,000 visitors, ROM’s various travelling exhibits were on display in 35 different venues, Ancient Peru Unearthed is organized and circulated by The including locations in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and British Nickle Arts Museum in cooperation with the Sicán National Columbia. These portable showcases of Museum collections Museum, Peru, and the National Institute of Culture of Peru. included long-time favorites such as Seeds in Disguise and Egypt: The national tour of this exhibition is made possible by Willow Gift of the Nile, and newer exhibitions including Ornamenting Park Wines & Spirits, Government of Alberta Community the Ordinary: Crafts of South Asia (sponsored by Metro Label Development, and AMJ Campbell Van Lines. Company Limited), Iroquois Beadwork: Through the Voices of Beads March 10 to August 6, 2007 (supported by The Ontario Trillium Foundation), and Hands Third floor Centre Block on Nature (made possible in part through a contribution from Director’s Choice Audio Tour the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Narrated by Andy Barrie, host of CBC Radio’s Metro Heritage.) Morning, the ROM’s inaugural audio tour includes stops Dinomobile in the ROM’s art and archaeology galleries in the Heritage Sponsor: AMJ Campbell Inc. Building. The French version of this tour is narrated by This impressive sixty-foot museum on wheels, one of the Philippe Burnet of Radio-Canada. ROM’s most popular travelling exhibits, retired in the Fall of English language tour launched on January 19, 2007. 2006, after being in circulation for close to 20 years. A wide variety of Ontario venues—museums, malls, fairs, schools and community organizations—hosted this exhibition during its final year, during which it was enjoyed by close to 35,000 visitors.

12 School Case and Resource Box Program was developed in collaboration with three Toronto-based More than 300 institutions, including schools, libraries, and production houses: Mirvish Productions, The Canadian Stage museums, booked the ROM’s Edukits, the “museum in a Company, and Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People. suitcase”. A total of 132,456 individuals, primarily students, utilized these hands-on, object oriented educational kits based Arctic Departure was an exhibition about Arctic animals on the Ministry of Education's common core curriculum and developed in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of built on the ROM’s expertise and collections. Nature in Ottawa. Let’s Go To The Ex, developed in collaboration with Canadian Starlab Mobile Planetarium National Exhibition Archives, celebrated this Toronto tradition Hosted by 12 different venues across the province, the Starlab and the vital role that “The Ex” has played in Toronto’s Mobile Planetarium fascinated 11,098 visitors by projecting history. images of the solar system and various constellations.

GTAA Exhibition Program Travellers to Toronto Pearson International Airport's Terminal 1 had the opportunity to view museum-quality exhibits organized by the ROM as part of the ongoing Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) Exhibition Program.

Victorian Wheeling: The Bicycle Era in Canada 1819-1901 featured bicycles from the early 19th century and related paraphernalia from the personal collection of Glen Norcliffe, an avid cyclist, collector of early bicycles, and author.

Bushplanes: A Canadian Story, an exhibition originating from the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre, explored the history and use of bushplanes in opening the Canadian north and protecting Ontario’s forests.

Morse Code: 150 Years of Electrical Communication included historical artifacts and equipment used in telegraphing Morse Code from the collections of the Canadian Museum of Science The travelling exhibition Ornamenting the Ordinary: Crafts of South Asia was on & Technology in Ottawa. display the Fairmont Royal York Hotel during the spring of 2006. This exhibition introduced viewers to the artistic styles, craftsmanship and craft traditions of South Asia's Setting the Stage explored the diversity and long-standing many culturally diverse regions. There is also an accompanying school case containing history of theatre in the Greater Toronto Area. The exhibit activity centres, specimens, teachers’ notes, and a DVD on the arts of South Asia.

13 March 10 with the opening of the new CIBC Discovery PROGRAMMING Gallery and the exhibition Ancient Peru Unearthed some of the highlights included a digital photography activity, First Nations performances by The Red Spirit Singers and Dancers, Wendat Storyteller John Steckley, and there was a full mediaeval fair complete with tents, armoured knights and displays of heraldry. Visitors tried calligraphy, spinning, weaving, and even fired arrows in the indoor archery range. Exceeding expectations, attendance from Friday March 9 to Sunday March 18 reached 36,000 visitors, up 3,000 from the previous year.

School Visits School Visits attendance for the year was 113,315. Special programs were developed for Italian Arts and Design and Ancient Peru Unearthed. To increase the number of classroom-based offerings, a large loan of Greek material was finalized for use in the teaching collections, and a teaching collection of Judaica material is also being prepared.

During the intermittent closures of the third floor galleries,

Junior palaeontologists uncovering dinosaurs with the tools of the trade in the Dino Dig. Education Staff ran Digital Gallery shows to ensure that visitors were still able to access our popular Egyptian material. Facilitators also helped escort groups into the Greek and Egypt galleries to ROM for the Holidays provide access to schools during the Centre Block closures. Inspired by Italian Arts and Design, visitors were invited to Teachers continue to give strong positive feedback about their create interactive 3D art installations, add miniature models visits: “this was perhaps one of the best class trips I’ve ever to a futuristic cityscape diorama, create chairs out of recycled been on because it was so new and exciting to so many young materials in a design challenge face off. ROM for the Holidays minds.” ran from December 27, 2006, to January 7, 2007, with 37,000 people enjoying the special family programming. The ROM is proud to recognize the following companies for their contributions to the School Visits Bursary program: March Break Citigroup Foundation, GAP Canada, HSBC Bank Canada, and Family Programming Partner: Subway Kraft Canada. At the ROM, we believe that every child regardless More than 200 staff and volunteers helped provide ten of financial means should have access to a full and complete days of programming for March Break 2007. Launching on education and applaud these companies for their generous

14 support of this important program. Thanks to their support, ROMLife more than 4,000 students from at-risk communities will have the ROMLife author lectures, film series, visual arts courses, opportunity to visit the Museum and participate in its dynamic and Connecting Singles events continue to draw new and education programs free of charge. expanding audiences. New programs are added each year and popular ones repeated. Instructor Robert Shechter’s perennially Summer Club popular course, The Camera & The Gourmet, had a Canadian Generously Sponsored by: Imperial Oil Foundation Arctic session which featured a dinner of arctic caribou flown Enrollment was up by 7% in 2006, with over 1,500 children from Nunavut; the following season, ROM anthropologist and registering in 78 museum-themed courses. The dynamic staff curator Ken Lister was added as a speaker. There were other team of 55 experienced Instructors and Assistants was enhanced programs related to ROM’s exhibitions such as Lalique Glass, by the contribution of over 8,100 volunteer hours, (up almost Italian Arts and Design, and Ancient Peru Unearthed. The Peru 50% from previous years). Highlights of the summer include a dinner/lecture was repeated four times. Distribution of the visit from falconer Darren Smith, and a stage fighting workshop programs guide through the Globe & Mail helped to increase for the participants of Actor’s Studio. New health and safety overall enrollment by 29%. initiatives, like the piloting of an Anaphylaxis Emergency Plan and first aid training session for staff assistants helped ensure Patrick and Barbara Keenan Family Hands-on Biodiversity Summer Club continued to provide a safe environment for all Gallery participants. The Hands-on Biodiversity Gallery remained a particular favorite for families, largely due to the interactive hands-on Saturday Morning Club and March Break Camp displays, the live specimens and the efforts of the staff and Generously supported by the Philip and Berthe Morton volunteers. Approximately 80 volunteer facilitators were active Foundation in the gallery, each contributing between four to 16 hours. Saturday Morning Club received over 335 registrations this The Volunteer team consisted of recent graduates and students year, while March Break Camp continued to be one of our studying Biology, Environmental Science, Museum Studies, most popular programs registering over 240 participants. Both Education and retired professionals, doctors and teachers. programs would not be possible without the contribution of over 50 volunteer assistants providing over 4,400 hours in CIBC Discovery Gallery support. Their dedication is evident when you consider that The expanded and relocated CIBC Discovery Gallery opened in over 90% of the current volunteers have previous experience time for March Break, with the former CIBC Discovery Room with the ROMkids programs, either as former participants, closing a few weeks before. The Dino Dig was temporarily staff, or volunteers. Special events this year included an closed from October until December, reopening accompanied interactive theatrical presentation by Jacob Berkowitz, author of by the display of Deinonychus, Pachycephalosaurs and other Jurassic Poop: What Dinosaurs (and Others) Left Behind, as well as related dinosaur material. The friendly and informative team exciting behind-the-scenes visits to curatorial departments like of 85 volunteers, each contributing four to 16 hours per week, mammalogy and entomology. made the kids visits very enjoyable.

15 Department of Museum Volunteers Steel”. “Enchanted Threads: The Legendary Textiles of William In 1957 a handful of young mothers began volunteering their Morris”, was presented to a sold-out crowd in the ROM time at the ROM, today 457 individuals are actively involved in Theatre. The money raised goes to the Burnham/Brett Fund the Department of Museum Volunteers (DMV). Currently the for Exhibitions in the new Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles DMV has a membership of 610 and is the umbrella organization and Costume. under which approximately 30 committees operate. Its mandate is to create programmes, provide services and raise funds for At the 17th Annual Decorative Arts Symposium—Crystal curatorial research and the acquisition of artifacts and specimens. and Glass: Glorious Grains of Sand, 200 participants listened The DMV donates an estimated 65,000 volunteer hours a year, to experts and scholars from the ROM and from around the a value of close to $2 million to the Museum. world.

The most visible volunteers are Museum Guides, Les Guides ROMtravel organized eight international trips during the past du ROM, the Gallery Interpreters, and the Meeters and year. Every traveller is required to be a Member of the ROM Greeters. During the past year, 61 Museum Guides offered 33 and is asked for a donation of about $300. The money raised complimentary scheduled tours weekly and provided paid group benefits the Museum. ROMbus had 11 local day trips for the tours in English, French, Spanish, Mandarin and Japanese. They general public and for museum members. The money raised also gave tours of temporary exhibitions. All the script writing, benefits the museum. The ROMwalk committee provides peer training and vetting is done by the Guides. Les Guides du free bi-weekly tours from May to September and are led by ROM offered four scheduled tours in French each week and knowledgeable volunteers. provided additional group tours on request. Over ninety Gallery ROM Reproductions, an independent committee under the Interpreters provided interactive hands-on experiences showing DMV umbrella that sells reproductions of artifacts in the artifacts to ROM visitors. The forty Meeters and Greeters ROM’s collection, raises over $150,000 per year for research helped direct visitors, answered questions and in general made and acquisition. the public feel welcome to the Museum. The ROM staff/DMV Joint Programmes are all educational and A significant number of volunteers belong to “friends no money is raised. The volunteers are involved in the CIBC committees” that foster special sections of the ROM and raise Discovery Gallery and the Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-on funds for those galleries. The Bishop White Committee (Far Biodiversity. As well, they work as “OWLS”, showing young Eastern), raises funds for the future curatorship of the Prince school children objects from the Museum’s collection. During Takamado Gallery of Japan. The Friends of the Canadian the last March Break over one hundred volunteers helped the Collection held two events for members and the general public Education Department with its varied programmes. “In the Beginning: Creating the ROM 1830-1914” and “The Heyday of Natural History: James Henry Fleming”. As well, Last year, the DMV donated approximately $60,000 to the they donated a Krysalis sofa, which will be displayed in the ROM for research and acquisitions, $20,000 toward operations Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada. The Friends of Textile of the Museum and is proud to report that to date it has and Costume held a series of lectures called “Scissors, Silk and contributed $ 1,280,400 towards Renaissance ROM.

16 NEW ACQUISITIONS 2006/2007

The following objects were among those acquired in 2006/2007 through the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust, a $49.7 million fund bequeathed by the late Louise Hawley Stone for the purchase of objects and the production of Museum publications. Louise Hawley Stone’s support of the ROM spanned over 50 years and included serving on the Museum’s Board of Trustees from 1968 to 1972.

Murchison meteorite. ROM2006.7292.1 War Record Robe. ROM2006.79.1 One of the most remarkable meteorites, as it contains water and Pictographic war record robes from the first half of the nineteenth complex carbon-based compounds including amino acids. It century constitute one of the great bodies of native art and are exemplifies the kinds of chemical reactions that can take place documents of profound social significance. One of only about a in deep space and leads to speculation about the origins of Life dozen such early examples in the world, the ROM’s new acquisition on Earth. This was a major acquisition for the ROM's outstanding is an extremely valuable addition to its important collection of late meteorite collection. nineteenth and early twentieth century Blackfoot war record robes.

Balustrade depicting a Yali Kandy. ROM2006.86.1 Detail of velvet. ROM2006.58.1 This sculpture is from a pair that once flanked a staircase. It depicts a This spectacular ciselé velvet furnishing fabric with cut and uncut Yali, a mythical animal which is part lion and part dragon. It is made pile on a voided ground was made in France ca. 1869. It features of Sri Lanka dolomite and contains traces of 16th century pigment. a large-scale classical revival design of a grotesque with putti and Yalis link the earthly realm with that of the gods, in this capacity sphinx. The length of the pattern repeat, relief effect of the pile and they often grace entrances to sacred sites. It will be featured at the complexity of design exemplify the technical feats achieved by entrance to the new Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery. Western European figured silks in the 19th century.

17 Donors to Renaissance ROM and other critical areas of need DONORS, PATRONS, SPONSORS are playing a vital role in keeping the Museum at the forefront of Canada’s major cultural institutions. Thanks to their dedicated support, the ROM is dramatically transforming itself to meet the challenges of the future, while maintaining the highest standards for exhibitions, galleries, research, collections care, education, and public programs. The ROM would like to thank the following donors for their exceptional generosity.

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TRANSFORMING GIFTS ($10,000,000 TO $29,999,999) Schad Family Teck Cominco Limited

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FOUNDING GIFTS Mr. Robert Schad (R) holding a live Harris Hawk, along with the Honourable Mike Colle (L), Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration at the public announcement of the Schad Family Gallery ($250,000 TO $999,999) of Life in Crisis. W. Robert Farquharson & Family Patrick and Barbara Keenan & Family Estate of Henrietta E. Stevenson Murray Frum & Nancy Lockhart Anonymous (1

* Donations supporting non-campaign initiatives.

18 MAJOR GIFTS ALL RENAISSANCE ROM Ian Ihnatowycz & Marta Witer/ W. Robert Farquharson & Family ($100,000 TO $249,999) CAMPAIGN GIFTS Ukrainian - Canadian Community Murray Frum and Nancy Lockhart (Cumulative) Jennifer Ivey Bannock Government of Ontario—Ministry of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP & the Ivey Foundation Culture Capital Rehabilitation Fund Hauser Industries Inc. CORNERSTONE GIFTS Patrick and Barbara Keenan & Family Embassy of Greece Mrs. Flavia C. Redelmeier Loblaw Companies Limited Adrian Hartog ($30,000,000 AND ABOVE) Tom Kierans & Mary Janigan Manulife Financial & Jasmine Vujasinovic Hartog Rom Reproductions Shop * Government of Canada Judy & Wilmot Matthews Philip N. Holtby Sony of Canada Ltd. Government of Ontario Mr. G. Wallace & Mrs. Margaret McCain Honda Canada Inc. Anonymous * (1) Michael Lee-Chin The R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation HSBC Bank Canada Sir Christopher Ondaatje, O.C., CBE John Hunkin & Susan Crocker SPECIAL GIFTS TRANSFORMING GIFTS Power Corporation of Canada Irving Tissue ($25,000 TO $99,999) ($10,000,000 TO $29,999,999) RBC Financial Group, Richard M. Ivey and Beryl Ivey through RBC Foundation Tom Kierans & Mary Janigan J.P. Bickell Foundation * Schad Family ROM Department of Museum Volunteers Estate of Campbell Alexander Leckie Dr. Martin Chepesiuk & Ms. Halyna Perun Teck Cominco Limited Scotiabank Group A. G. Leventis Foundation CIBC Mellon Hilary and Galen Weston Shokokai Linamar Corporation Department of Canadian Heritage The W. Garfield Weston Foundation - Virtual Museum of Canada * Sigmund Samuel Gallery Fund Magna International Inc. Dupont Corian/The Willis Group PRINCIPAL GIFTS St. Joseph's Communications Maple Leaf Foods TD Bank Financial Group Estate of Dorothy Muriel Matson Farrow & Ball ($5,000,000 TO $9,999,999) Dr. Marian Fowler Richard Wernham & Julia West Brenda and James McCutcheon Estate of Jeanne Timmins Costello* Shreyas & Mina Ajmera Red & Brenda Wilson Audrey & David Mirvish Bob & Irene Gillespie Jack Cockwell Anonymous (3) Mitsui & Co., (Canada) Ltd. Charles & Jane Kucey and Family Thor & Nicole Eaton Foundation The Muzzo Family Linda & Steve Lowden Elizabeth Samuel FOUNDING GIFTS Nienkämper Furniture The Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Joey & Toby Tanenbaum ($250,000 TO $999,999) Assuntino & Angelina Ricciuto Foundation Temerty Family RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust Bram & Bluma Appel Dr. Lloyd M. Piszel La Fondation Sackler Shirley & Edward Barr Zenon & Sonia PotichnyJ LEADERSHIP GIFTS (The Sackler Foundation) Roloff Beny Foundation Estate of Robina Rodger Scott Paper Limited, A Kruger Company ($1,000,000 TO $4,999,999) BMO Financial Group Shoppers Home Health Care Sony of Canada Ltd. Rudy Bratty & Family Canon Canada Inc. The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation * Estate of Henrietta E. Stevenson Brookfield Group Cargill Foods Teknion Corporation Toyota Canada Inc. CIBC CVRD Inco Limited Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras W Studio John & Merrilyn Driscoll The DeGasperis Family Shevchenko Estate of Isabel Carey Warne The Globe and Mail Department of Canadian Heritage Anonymous * (1) John Wood Mr. & Mrs. William B. Harris - Virtual Museum of Canada Anonymous (1) Dofasco Inc.

19 MAJOR GIFTS Marion Megill Trust Blaney McMurtry LLP Mr. & Mrs. W.B.G. Humphries ($100,000 TO $249,999) The Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Hussman Canada Inc. Foundation Bruce Edmeades Co. Ice River Springs Water Co. James C. Baillie Ministry of Natural Resources Burgundy Asset Management Ltd. Interforest Ltd. Marilyn & Charles Baillie Panasonic Canada Inc. Burnbrae Farms Limited The Ippolito Family Bell Canada Centennial Foods J & D Produce, Inc. Edinburg, Texas Hilda McLaughlin Pangman Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP The Albert C. W. Chan Foundation Peter & Peggy Janson Robert E. Pierce & Family Fran & Lawrence Bloomberg Dr. Martin Chepesiuk & Ms. Halyna Perun JNE Consulting Ltd. Mrs. Flavia C. Redelmeier Jean-Raymond Boulle CIBC Mellon JVC Canada Inc. Nita & Donald Reed Campbell Company of Canada ConAgra Foods Canada Kellogg Canada Inc. John & Elizabeth Rhind The Estelle Craig Family Trust Arthur P. Kennedy Cascades Tissue Group Moira & Alfredo Romano Deloitte Vera & Albert Kircheis Colgate-Palmolive Canada Inc. Paula & Rudolph Schury Michael & Honor de Pencier KPMG LLP Commemorative Organization for the Sorrell Financial Inc. DENSO Manufacturing Canada, Inc. Kroll Computer Systems Inc. Japan World Exposition ('70) The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Michael Detlefsen & Louise Le Beau Charles & Jane Kucey and Family David Chapman's Ice Cream Limited Teradata—a division of NCR Dorie Dohrenwend Ihor and Valentina Kuryliw Dimitra & Michael Davidson & Family The Dubczak Family The S E Lam Family Foundation Mr. William Thorsell Mr. George A. Fierheller Dupont Corian/The Willis Group Jack Leitch John & Liz Tory GE Canada E.D. Smith & Sons, Limited Dr. & Mrs. K.K. Leung Trillion Financial Group—Kalano Y.L. Jang General Mills Canada El-En Packaging Company Limited Michelle & Michael Levy Family Rita Tsang Bob & Irene Gillespie Andrew Faas Foundation Weston Foods Canada Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky-Gluskin Anna-Liisa & Graham Farquharson Anne Y. Lindsey Sharon Zuckerman Farrow & Ball Myrna Lo The Hon. Edwin A. Goodman Anonymous (4) Dr. Madeline Field Wah Chee & Elsie Lo & Joan Thompson First Gulf Development Corporation Susanne & Charles Loewen H.J. Heinz Company of Canada Ltd. SPECIAL GIFTS Lloyd & Gladys Fogler Mastronardi Produce Ltd. Hauser Industries Inc. ($25,000 TO $99,999) Robert & Julia Foster Mazda Canada Inc. Higgins & Burke Tea & Coffee Dr. Marian Fowler McCarthy Tétrault Richard & Martha Hogarth ACNielsen Company of Canada Franklin Templeton Investments Robert R. McEwen Margo & Ernest Howard Aird & Berlis LLP Frito Lay Canada Paul & Martha McLean Mark & Gail Appel Inmet Mining Corporation Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Jack & Vodrie McOuat Arius3D Canada Rosamond Ivey John & Judith Grant Merrill Lynch Tony & Anne Arrell Suzanne Ivey Cook greens+ Eleanor and Jack Mintz Baker Real Estate Corporation H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C. Mizuho Corporate Bank (Canada) Lassonde Industries Inc. & Invar Building Corporation Jean & Ken Harrigan The Honourable Robert S. Linda & Steve Lowden Bank of Tokyo—Mitsubishi (Canada) The Haynes-Connell Foundation & Dixie Anne Montgomery John & Gail MacNaughton Robert Barnett & Leslie Montgomery Hino Motors Canada Murphy's Food Sales & Marketing Marsan Foods William & Dorothy Beckel Hitachi Canada Ltd. Néstle Canada Inc. The McLean Foundation J.P. Bickell Foundation John E. Horton & Family Nissan Canada Inc.

20 Olymel, S.E.C./L.P. Turner Fleischer Architects Inc. EXHIBITION SPONSORS AND General Idea’s AIDS Sculpture Ontario Potato & O.P.D.I. Logistics UFJ Bank Canada MEDIA PARTNERS Sponsor: TD Canada Trust Mr. John G. B. & Mrs. Deanne Orr Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings David & Bernadette Palmer Shevchenko from the Floating World 1690 - 1850 PROGRAM SPONSORS AND Roger & Maureen Parkinson Unisource Canada Inc. Presented by: Fidelity Investments SUPPORTERS PCL Packaging Corporation Phyllis & William Waters Exhibit Patrons: Sony of Canada Ltd., School Visits Bursaries Farrow & Ball Pepsi QTG Canada Gary & Heidi Weddel Citigroup Foundation School Visits Bursary Piller Sausage & Delicatessens Ltd. Dr. Fred Weinberg Gap Inc. School Visits Bursary Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History Dr. Lloyd M. Piszel & Mrs. Joy Cherry Weinberg HSBC Bank Canada School Visits Bursary Presented by: BMO Financial Group Zenon & Sonia Potichnyj Western Creamery Kraft Canada School Visits Bursary Exhibit Patrons: Castlepoint Realty Partners, Mary Jean & Frank Potter Donald & Sally Wright Hal Jackman Foundation, The Japan Summer Club PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Roman (Moko) Wynnyckyj & Maria Lialka Foundation. Generously supported by: Imperial Oil Procter & Gamble Inc. Yamaha Motor Canada Ltd. Foundation Joan R. Randall John Yaremko, Q.C. & Mary A. Yaremko Ancient Peru Unearthed: Golden Treasures of a Lost Civilization In Memory of Elizabeth Rhind Simon Zucker Saturday Morning Club Estate of Norma Ruth Ridley Anonymous (3) Presented by: HSBC Bank Canada Financially assisted by: Ontario Cultural Generously supported by the Philip and Mrs. Norman S. Robertson Attractions Fund Berthe Morton Foundation Rosenbloom Groupe Inc. Media Partners: Toronto Star, CBS Rotman Family Outdoor & WNED (PBS) March Break Lionel & Carol Schipper Sponsor: Subway Media Partner: CBS Outdoor Shinkikai SPONSORSHIPS Heaven or Hell: Images of Chinese Shiu Pong Group of Companies Buddhist and Daoist Deities and Corporate Sponsorship supports a variety Immortals Crisis Zones: World Cinema Now Shoppers Home Health Care of ROM initiatives, including major Exhibit Sponsor: Manulife Financial Media Partner: NOW Magazine SMBC Global Foundation, Inc. exhibits, education, public programs and St. Helen's Meat Packers Limited Déco Lalique Decorative Arts Symposium outreach. The ROM wishes to thank and & Lazar Yitzchok Kosher Meats Media Partner: The Globe and Mail Sponsored by: Waterford Wedgwood Barbara L. Steele acknowledge the following sponsors for Canada Inc. Estate of Donald & Frances Strudley their continued support. Italian Arts & Design: The 20th Century Additional Support: Christie's Canada Inc. StuCor Construction Ltd Presented by: Sentry Select Capital Corp. Hotel Host: Holiday Inn Toronto Midtown Exhibit Patron: One Bedford by Lanterra Sumitomo Canada Ltd. SEASON SPONSORS & Media Partners: CBS Outdoor, The Globe Dinomobile Symbol Technologies Canada, ULC PARTNERS and Mail, 98.1 CHFI, & 680 News Sponsor: AMJ Campbell Inc. Teknion Corporation Renaissance ROM Promotional Partner: Canadian Scooter Thomas, Large & Singer Inc. Inaugural Season Sponsor: CIBC Travelling Exhibits Toronto Cathay Lions Club Official Media Partner: The Globe and Carlos Garaicoa Sponsor: AMJ Campbell Inc. Toronto Elegant Lions Club Mail Presented by: Sentry Select Capital Corp. Toshiba of Canada Limited Towers Perrin Fall 2006 Season Korea around 1900: The Paintings of Gisan Toyota Financial Services/Lexus Presented by: Sentry Select Capital Corp. Exhibit Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Financial Services Canada Media Partner: The Globe and Mail

21 ENDOWMENTS Gwendolyn Pritchard Fraser Fund Madeleine A. Fritz Invertebrate Fund The ROM is fortunate to have the generous support of many individuals Madeleine A. Fritz Vertebrate Fund and groups of donors who together have established endowments Edith M. Galbraith Fund to provide a permanent source of income in support of research, Veronika Gervers Memorial Research Fund acquisitions, collection care, exhibitions, programs, galleries and H. Stephen & Prudence Gooderham Endowment Fund curatorial positions at the Museum. The ROM is grateful for their Suzanne and Edwin Goodman Fund generosity, commitment and vision in establishing the following Colin Gordon Mammalogy Fund endowments to ensure the future success of the Museum. Colin Gordon Ornithology Fund Greek Endowment Lecture Fund ENDOWED CHAIR Fred S. Haines Fund Betty & Bob Hamilton Fund Louise Hawley Stone Chair of Far Eastern Art Eva Holtby Endowment Fund ENDOWED CURATORSHIPS Frederick P. Ide Fund Kircheis Family Endowment Fund Bishop White Curatorship of Far Eastern Art John and Eustella Langdon Fund Nora E. Vaughan Curatorship of Costume & Textiles Stephen George Leggett Q.C. and Suzanne Leggett Fund Mona Campbell Curatorship of Decorative Arts A.G. Leventis Foundation Gallery of Ancient Cyprus Fund Curatorship of South Asian Civilizations Thayer Lindsley Geological Trust Fund Canadiana Curatorship Mamie May Collections Care Fund Maya Research Fund NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS Helen McCrimmon Fund Ancient Echoes • Modern Voices South Asia Programs Fund McDonald Collections Care Fund Bishop White Far Eastern Endowment Fund R. Samuel McLaughlin Discovery Fund Charles Murray Ball Fund R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation Fund David & Torunn Banks Endowment Fund Jack & Estelle Morris Endowment Fund Robert & Leslie Barnett Endowment Fund R.L. Peterson Memorial Fund Dr. Evelyn Bateman Fund Joan Walwyn Randall Endowment Fund Roloff Beny Fund Elizabeth Rhind Fund for Collections Care Roloff Beny Photography Endowment Fund Frank and Emily Riddell Memorial Fund Count Walter Bieniewski Canadiana Fund Norma Ruth Ridley Endowment Fund Count Walter Bieniewski European Fund Sigmund Samuel Endowment Fund J.A. Howson Brocklebank Fund Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canadiana Fund Burnham Brett Endowment for Textiles and Costume Jan Shuckard Endowment Fund Floyd S. Chalmers Fund Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust Fund Gerard and Earlaine Collins Endowment Fund Elizabeth Walter Endowment Fund Jeanne Timmins Costello Trust Fund Vaughan Lecture Fund Edwin J. Crossman Fund Vivian Family Endowment Fund Vera Dolly Denty Fund Dr. Fred Weinberg & Joy Cherry Weinberg Endowment Fund Department of Museum Volunteers Endowment Fund Hugh Wylie Endowment Fund

22 CHARLES TRICK AND ADA MARY Elizabeth Jefferys Fee Susanne & Charles Loewen Beate Ziegert CURRELLY SOCIETY Dr. Madeline M. Field G. Alexander MacKenzie Anonymous (6) Joan Fitzpatrick Mrs. Marion Mann A gift to the Royal Ontario Museum Frederica Fleming Mr. Peter R. Matthews in your will is a simple and thoughtful Dr. Marian Fowler Dr. Alan C. Middleton way to create a lasting legacy that Mr. J.B. & Mrs. Dora Friedlander Mr. Jack Miller will help to enhance and preserve Mr. George & Mrs. Constance Gale Mr. Michael & Mrs. Jiliyan Milne Canada’s largest museum. The Mrs. Janet Genest Brian & Monica Miron Currelly Society is named in honour Allan C. & Linda Gold Dixie Anne Montgomery of the first director of the Royal Hon. Edwin A. Goodman Mr. & Mrs. N. D. Morgan Ontario Museum of Archaeology and & Mrs. Joan Thompson Mr. & Mrs. William M. Myers his wife, and recognizes individuals Ellen Gordon Joan M. Neilson Mrs. Susan Greenberg Corinne Nemy who have committed to making such Mr. Anthony & Mrs. Kathleen Griffin Hilary V. Nicholls a gift. H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C. Richard & Michelle Osborne Joan L. Harris D.M. Parr Miss Margaret Agar William and Patricia Harris Robert E. Pierce Vanessa Alexander Gwen Harvey Mr. & Mrs. Frank Potter A.R. Armstrong Patricia Haug Joan R. Randall Jennifer Ivey Bannock Dianne Henderson Miss Jean M. Read Julie Barnes Paul and Louise Herzberg Mrs. Flavia C. Redelmeier Margaret L. Beckel Mr. Kim Yim Ho Nita L. Reed Ann Walker Bell & Walter Frederic Thommen Mrs. Dora Rempel Mr. Douglas C. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Hodgins Avrom Salz Jo Breyfogle Christopher E. Horne Ms. Virginia Sawyer Donald R. Brown, Q.C. Margo & Ernest Howard Mrs. E. Seale Jane Cameron George Hrynewich Alana Silverman & Dani Frodis Mona Campbell Marnie Hunt Ms. Marie T. St. Michael Vicky Carson & Steven Bell Johanna Huybers James & Louise Temerty Jeanne Carter Richard & Beryl Ivey James A.S. Thompson Mr. Neil B. Cole Arthur P. Kennedy William Thorsell Mrs. G.H. Collins Mr. & Mrs. Albert Kircheis Jane B. Tilden Dr. Blaine Currie Ania & Walter Kordiuk Mr. Vincent Tovell Rita Tsang, member of the ROM Board of Miss Gwen Davenport Ms. Kathryn Kossow Dr. Nancy J. Vivian Governors and the Campaign Cabinet Campaign Donna Deaken Mrs. Trudy Kraker Mrs. Mary P. Watson Executive, led the Renaissance ROM China Dr. Doris Dohrenwend Anne Y. Lindsey Dr. & Mrs. Glenn B. Wiggins Initiative. One result was that the Hong Kong Ann M. Duff Ambrose Wah Hing Lo Mrs. Jean Y. Wright Ballet donated the proceeds of their Toronto Mrs. Caroline S. Farrell-Burman & Neil Cochrane Peter & Debra Young performance to the Museum.

23 ROYAL PATRONS’ CIRCLE GUARANTOR Peter & Melanie Munk Murray & Marvelle Koffler Linda Hasenfratz and Ed Newton Marion & Allen Lambert We are grateful to all of the ($10,000 - $14,999) Vivian E. Pilar Marion Lambert generous Royal Patrons’ Circle AIC Private Portfolio Counsel Mary Jean & Frank Potter Margaret A. Light members for their support. The Mrs. Joy Cherry Weinberg Barbara Stymiest Anne Y. Lindsey philanthropy of RPC members The Gerard & Earlaine Collins Foundation Brenda & Red Wilson Elsie & Wah-Chee Lo supports ongoing Museum activities Mr. & Mrs. C. Warren Goldring Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. Stephens B. Lowden that includes educational programs, Mr. Alan Greenberg & Dr. Naomi Himel William & Nona Heaslip Foundation public programs, exhibitions and Jennifer Ivey Bannock COMPANION The Henry White Kinnear Foundation Michael Lee-Chin curatorial research. Our patrons’ ($3,000 - $5,999) Ms. Margo McCutcheon Alan & Patricia Koval generosity enables us to engage Nancy & John McFadyen James Baillie Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Mr. Frank & Mrs. Barbara Milligan diverse audiences, providing insight Robert & Mona Bandeen Pitney Bowes Canada Dr. Jack & Mrs. Eleanor Mintz into the past, present and the future Michael Barnstijn & Louise MacCallum The Wookey Family Jack Morris of the world around us. Sonja Bata Donald & Sally Wright Hilary V. Nicholls Mr. & Mrs. Avie Bennett The Wu Family Peter Oliver Walter M. & Lisa Balfour Bowen GUARDIAN Anonymous (1) Steven Page & Carolyn Ricketts Bregman + Hamann Architects David & Bernadette Palmer ($15,000+) Martin Brodigan FELLOW Robert E. Pierce & Family Sydney & Florence Cooper Jack L. Cockwell ($6,000 - $9,999) Wendy & Leslie Rebanks Stephen Dembroski John Hunkin & Susan Crocker The Ernest Redelmeier Family Phil & Eva Cunningham Sarah Dinnick & Colin Webster Mr. & Mrs. John Driscoll John A. Rhind Mr. Michael Detlefsen Ms. Lonti Ebers Thor & Nicole Eaton Moira & Alfredo Romano & Ms. Louise Le Beau Melanie Edwards & John Brown Gail & Bob Farquharson Robert Rubinoff & Espie Chan Ann & Andrew Dumyn Ernst & Young LLP John Hunkin & Susan Crocker The Samuel Group of Companies Andrew Faas Bill & Barbara Etherington James & Brenda McCutcheon Esther & Sam Sarick Lloyd & Gladys Fogler Mr. George A. & Mrs. Glenna Fierheller Mr. & Mrs. Albert Milstein William & Meredith Saunderson Wayne & Isabel Fox Ron & Gillian Graham Porter Airlines Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Savage Bob & Irene Gillespie Great-West Life, London Life ROM Reproductions Shop Andrew & Gaye Stein Ron & Gillian Graham & Canada Life Mrs. E. Samuel Andrew M. Stewart Mr. Al & Mrs. Malka Green Mr. & Mrs. James Gutmann Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Amy & Clair Stewart Richard & Gwen Harvey Ken & Jean Harrigan Jim & Louise Temerty Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Switzer Inco Limited Mr. & Mrs. William B. Harris Richard Wernham & Julia West Mr. William Thorsell International Financial Data Services Richard & Martha Hogarth Anonymous (1) Rita Tsang Daniel & Suzanne Cook II BY IV Design Associates Inc. Harriet & Gordon Walker The Hon. Henry N. R. Jackman Richard & Beryl Ivey Beate Ziegert Peter & Peggy Janson Ms. Victoria Jackman Mr. & Mrs. George A. Zuckerman Patrick & Barbara Keenan James Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Jack McOuat Anonymous (3)

24 FRIEND George & Martha Butterfield Mr. & Mrs. Peter-Paul E. Du Vernet Ms. Kirsten Hanson & Mr. Sandy Houston ($1,500 - $2,999) Mr. Paul V. Caetano Mr. Roman & Mrs. Roma Dubczak Artemis Foundation Mary & Brendan Calder The Hon. Charles L. & Mrs. Anne Dubin Patricia M. Haug Yeti Agnew & Christopher Birt Jane Cameron Mr. Sean F. Dunphy Susan & Cecil Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. Clive V. Allen Margaret Harriett Cameron Mr. & Mrs. C. I. Durrell Paul Hellyer Francisco Alvarez Barry Campbell Ruth Elder Ms. Dianne Henderson David & Simmie Antflick & Debra Grobstein Campbell Mark Engstrom & Fiona Reid Cheryl Heyd Mark & Gail Appel Canadian Premier Life Insurance Company Mr. William J. Evans Andre & Jocelyn Hidi Ms. Anne-Marie H. Applin Mrs. Alexander Carr-Harris Carol & Paul Fahey Mr. Norbert & Mrs. April Hoeller Richard Archbold & Richard Feldman Miss Margaret Chambers Mr. Otto Felber & Ms. Anita Berkis Nancy Holland Dr. Anna M. Arenson The Chandaria Foundation Anthony Ferrari & Karen Millon Mr. Christopher E. Horne Mr. & Mrs. R. G. Armstrong Marion Chant Beatrice Fischer Mr. Jim & Mrs. Margaret Hoskins William & Midori Atkins Mrs. Ruby Cho The Hon. John J. & Joan Fitzpatrick Brent Houlden & Mary Costello Dr. Stephen Austin William Anderson, Anne Choy & Family Robert & Julia Foster Barbara Houlding Salvatore M. Badali & Kim McInnes Christie's Canada Inc. Prof. John & Mrs. Alda Futhey Margo & Ernest Howard Mr. & Mrs. Edward Paul Badovinac Timothy J. Clague & Sharon O'Grady Joy & Barry Gales ISB Corporate Services Marilyn & Charles Baillie Mrs. Max B. E. Clarkson Mrs. Janet Genest William W. K. Ip & Kathleen Latimer Helen G. Balfour Anne Cobban & Edward Sitarski Ms. Gwyn Gill Richard Isaac & Brian Sambourne Karen & Bill Barnett Mr. Neil B. Cole Mr. & Mrs. Ira Gluskin Kris & Margaret Isberg Meg Beckel J. Rob Collins Mr. & Mrs. Lionel J. Goffart Ms. Rosamond Ivey Ann Walker Bell Gerry Conway & K. V. Srinivasan Dr. & Mrs. Alfonso Delvalle Diana & Philip Jackson Telereliance Marilyn Cook Graham & Cynthia Goodchild William Jamieson Ms. Lesley Belows Lesya A. Cooper Ms. Kamala Jean Gopie Mohammad & Farida Jamjoum Ellen & Murray Blankstein Margaret Cornish & James Kehoe Bill Graesser Paul & Jane Jeffrey Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Blundell Mr. Richard Costley-White Hamlin Grange & Cynthia Reyes Mrs. Velma Jones Brainerd & Kimberlee Blyden-Taylor Ronald & Rehana Cowell John & Judith Grant Mrs. Merryl Josephson Anne & Fred Boardman Peter Cox Margot H. Grant Dr. & Mrs. R. L. Josephson Ann Boddington John & Barbara Crispo Greater Toronto Airports Authority Mr. & Mrs. George Julie Bonhams Shane & Brad Crompton Mr. Patrick & Mrs. Freda Green Mrs. Jennifer Kah & Mr. Paul Walker Peter Bourdakos Mr. Walter Cross Karen Green Christine Karcza Ann & Tim Bowman Crossman Family Brian H. Greenspan & Marla Berger Corey Keeble Stephen Bowman & Elizabeth Koester Ms. Jean O'Brien & Ms. Gloria Kline Mr. Tom Gunn & Ms. Christine McKee Dr. & Mrs. W. J. Keith William & Anna Maria Braithwaite Richard J. & Elizabeth A. Currie Gurry & White Personnel Resources Ltd. Ethel & Ron Kellen Donald R. Brown, Q.C. Michael & Honor de Pencier H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C. Mr. George B. Kiddell Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Brown Andrew & Tracy Debnam Mr. & Mrs. James Gutmann Ms. Elizabeth King & Ms. Susan M. King Eve Brummer Ms. Carol & Ms. Tara DelZotto Paul Haggis Mitchell Shnier & Denice Klein Patricia A. Butler & Ian A. Dunin Patrick Devine Scott & Ellen Hand Chris & Maribeth Koester Markiewicz & Family Ernest A. Du Vernet, Q.C. Bert & Helen Hanratty Sharon Koor

25 Ania & Walter Kordiuk Sean & Patti McNeely Kathy Pattman & Damian Bone Ms. Mallory Sartz & Mr. John Sartz Mr. Richard & Mrs. Nancy Kostoff John D. & Esther McNeil Nancy Pencer Mr. Richard G. Sayers Bronwyn Krog & Paul Taylor AppLinx Corporation Dr. Edwin M. Pennington Dr. Philip Scappatura Joseph & Doreen Kronick Beverly Meddows-Taylor Mr. Andrew M. Peters Mr. Robert & Mrs. Elizabeth Schad Mr. & Mrs. Goulding Lambert & David Ferdinands & Ms. Marnie R. McCann Katalin Schafer Claire J. Lamont & Archie Lamont Mercedes-Benz Canada Inc. Ms. Margaret J. Petersen Burfield Lionel & Carol Schipper Trisha A. Langley Mercer Human Resource Consulting & Ms. Miranda Burfield Lawrence & Mary Jane Scott Mr. David Leith Andy Merchant Dr. Moira Phillips SECOR Consulting Anne Y. Lindsey Mrs. J. Louise Miano Phillips, Hager & North Investment SEGAL LLP Dr. Elaine Ling & Dr. Neil Edwards Dr. Alan C. Middleton Management Ltd. Dr. Eva Seidner & Mr. Michael Kedar Living Fuel Mr. David Middleton & Dr. Marlene Puffer Mr. Chris & Mrs. Terry Piersanti Al Shaikoli Myrna Lo Mr. & Mrs. Milovanovic Robin B. Pitcher Milton & Joyce Shier Christine & John Lockett Florence Minz & Gordon Kirke Philip Playfair & Jacqueline Code Drs. Malcolm & Meredith Silver Susanne & Charles Loewen Brian & Monica Miron Mr. & Mrs. Podolak Stephen & Jane Smith Susan Loube & William Acton Audrey & David Mirvish Mrs. Barbara & Mr. John Pollock Michael & Andrea Soni Danielle & James MacDonald The Hon. Robert S. Mr. & Mrs. Sam Pollock Mr. & Mrs. G. Wayne Squibb G. Z. MacIntosh & Dixie Anne Montgomery Dr. Sandy Pritchard Mary A. Stacey The Hon. Roy & Mrs. Alethea MacLaren Linda Montgomery Procter & Gamble Inc. John & Nicole Starkey Dr. Stuart Macleod Anne More Dr. & Mrs. Edison J. Quick Barbara L. Steele & Dr. Nancy McCullough Ada & Hugh Morris Monique Rabideau & Arthur Bode Gary & Diane Stemerdink John & Gail MacNaughton Graham & Charlotte Mudge Dan Rahimi & Julie Comay Jim & Katie Stewart Mrs. Janet E. Marsh Mrs. Thomas Mulock Joan R. Randall Dr. J.M. & Mrs. Maryln J. Stewart Michael & Wendy Fullan Mary F. Mulqueen Mr. & Mrs. Morton H. Rapp Kim Shannon & Ho K. Sung Irving & Esther Matlow John & Sarah Nagel Elinor Ratcliffe Sheldon Switzer & Franklin Switzer Dr. Dipak & Dr. Pauline Mazumdar Richard Neidert & Mic Degroote Miss Jean M. Read Mrs. Jeannie Tanenbaum Bob McArthur & Harumi Inokuchi Joan Margaret Neilson Mrs. Nita L. Reed The Boiler Inspection and Insurance Mr. G. Wallace & Mrs. Margaret McCain George & Vera Niblett Vivian Reiss & Irving Garten Company of Canada. Ken McCarter & Dianna Symonds Michael Norgrove Renetta Cook Holding Limited The D. & T. Davis Charitable Foundation Jan McCrae Alcan Aluminium Limited Rob & Penny Richards The Fraser Elliott Foundation Barbara E. McDonald Mr. & Mrs. E. G. Odette Jacqueline Riddell The K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William L. McDonald Mr. Geoffrey & Mrs. Dawn Ogram Mark & Ana Rittinger In Memory of Judith Teller Mr. & Mrs. J. L. McDougall Mr. & Mrs. John G. B. Orr Mrs. Norman S. Robertson Mr. George & Ms. Molly Thompson Margith McIlveen Richard & Michelle Osborne Richard & Pauline Robinson Ms. Kathryn Thornton Mr. Michael J. McKay Karin & Charles Cutrara Mr. B. Buckley Walter & Jane Tilden Guy & Joanne McLean Hari Panday Richard Rooney Mr. & Mrs. John A. Tory June McLean Julie T. Pantziris Sandra & Joseph Rotman Jody Townshend Mr. Mark & Mrs. Judith McLean Park Property Management Inc. In memory of Mrs. Anna Rotzinger Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. McLean The Parkes Family Robert Sanderson

26 The George & Mary Turnbull Foundation Raphaela Dunlap Fund at the Toronto Community Cléophée Eaton Foundation Amy Fisher Mr. Robert Van Dusen Eric Jackson Mr. Jacobus van Heyst Greg MacKenzie Dr. Nancy J. Vivian Mark Mulroney Cheryl Lewis & Mihkel Voore Robyn Scott Elizabeth M. Walter Yasmin Shaker Alan Warren Adam Sinclair Ellen Waslen Lara Teoli Waterford Wedgwood Canada Inc. Alexandra Weston Mr. & Mrs. John Weatherall Amy Wilson Ms. Beatrix Webb Gordon Winston Stephen & Barbara Williamson John & Cheryl Willms YOUNG PATRONS’ CIRCLE Alfred G. Wirth MEMBERS Jutta Witt Ms. Judith Wolfson Hughene Acheson Dickson & Penelope Wood Chris Adams Mrs. Bernadette Yuen Jeremy Adams Anonymous (20) Kirsten Agrell Jonathan Alderson Cristina Alvadane YOUNG PATRONS’ CIRCLE always KASHA CABINET Stephen M. Andersons Cawthra Burns, Co-chair Kirsten Annett Marcus Doyle, Co-chair Casey Adam Antolak Diana Arajs Alisa Apostle David Barclay Alex Appel Jennifer Bassett Jackie Appel Candice Best Diana Arajs Jamie Boyden Emma Arenson Guests enjoying PROM: Solid Gold! the Young Patrons’ Circle’s signature event rocked the Samantha Brickman Erin Armstrong ROM on March 31, 2007—the hottest party in town with over 700 glamorous guests. Michael Burns Brian Astl John Cape Yoo-Mi & Derek Astley PROM: Solid Gold! was sponsored by Eye Weekly and Flare Magazine and received Jimmy Chan Lauren Baca event patronage from Chestnut Park Real Estate Limited and Porter Airlines. Justine Deluce Daniel L. Bain Marco Di Girolamo Robert Baines

27 David Barclay Andrew Danyliw Catherine Harrison Fred & Rebecca Barclay Elizabeth Davis Helen E. Hawkins Jennifer Bassett Melissa Davis Jason Hendeles J. P. Beaudoin Erin Deans Anne & Christian Hepfer Swith J. Bell Justine Deluce Jason Hervey Nancy H. Bertrand Nicole Demerse Michol Hoffman Anya-Deane Best Marco Di Girolamo Brenda M. Hogan Candice Best David Dime & Elisa Nuyten Victoria Jackman Alison M. Booth Ryan Doersam James & Elizabeth Jane Boyden Leanne Donaldson Lisa Bradburn Sonal Doshi Jacquie Brooks Sean Driscoll Nicole Bucher Loredana Drusian Andrea F. Buczko E. Sarah R. Dumbrille Michael Burns Erin Edgar Cawthra Burns & Fred Bruun Darrin Emond John & Franziska Cape David Epstein Robert Carbonaro Frederick Espina Jessica Carpio Serda Evren Julie Chang Wade Eyre & Cecile Chung Cynthia Cheng Kelly Fallis Sarah Chesworth Christa L. Favot Mobin Choudhury Dawn & Mark Fell Noble Chummar Serli & Siroan Fine Jewellers Jane Chung Melanie Finlayson Jacqueline Church Anna Fischer-Harrison Caroline Cole Amy Fisher Amanda Colina Jacqueline Flinker Caroline Cook & Lisa Pearson Dr. Dean Gaber Alexandra Cooper Mo Gannon Iara Costa Jay Gibson Ferraris lined up for Viva ROMa! Thursday October 26, 2006 at the opening celebrations Lorna Counsell Madalene Goh & Malina Goh of Italian Arts & Design: The 20th Century. Hugh Craig Bryn Gray Lisa Cullingworth Eliza Guerdjikova Jane Cvijan Daniel Guttman Ahmad & Karin Dajani Jana M. Hall Carol A. Dalgado Jennifer & William Harris Geordie Dalglish Piper Harris

28 Dr. Eric & Jennifer Jackson Robert McGlashan Alyssa Pinto Gregory Sullivan Melony Jamieson Megan McGuire Eugene Profis Shawn Tay Ms. Sandra Janzen & Mr. David James Grey van der Meer Corinne Pruzanski Leah Temerty & Michael Lord Christopher Jones Nicholas A. Mellamphy Neil Puype & Julie Fernandez Marissa Tessarolo Cynthia Jordan Kate Menear Sofia M. Ramirez Lawrence Thacker Althea Joseph Philippe Meyersohn Naveen Rana Sandra Thant Alexander William Josephson Dr. Robert Meynell Nosheen Raza Anita Thomas John George Josephson Robert Miehm June Anne Reid Ian M. Thompson Jinous & Grant Joyce Stephanie Migchelsen Elizabeth Richards James A. S. Thompson Ms. Kelly Juhasz & Ms. Sarah Irwin Paul Miklasevics Alison Robinette Sarah Thompson & Jueane Thiessen Gavin Kan Melissa Millar Cameron Rusaw & Anne-Marie Sorrenti Robert Toews Hayden & Angelique Kelley Rachael Mirvish Sarah Ryerson Marte A. Towle Blair Kelly Marion A. Mizuyabu Paola Saad & Vania Freire Trevor Townsend Olivia Keu Kenneth Montague Claire Salisbury Paolo Vaccary Hassan Khan Colin Moore Sampsa Samila Lorraine & Peter Varga Navin Khanna David T. Morrow Amee Sandhu Melissa Vassallo Claire Kilgour & C. J. Hervey Jenifer H. Mulock Robyn & Steven Scott Colette A. Volk June Kim Mark Mulroney Yasmin A. Shaker Wynsome Walker & Richard Crosland Steven Kim Anna Murray Bettina H. Share John Walsh Krista Knee Ken Murray & Emma Robinson Osman Sheikh Nicole Watson Andrea LaFayette Marc Nadeau Anita Shenoy Samuel Webster Susan Lau Andrew C. Nicholl Linda A. Shin Victoria Webster Jonathan Lax Tara O'Doherty David Shuken Tiffany Welch Matthew Lekushoff Kathleen O'Keefe John Simpson & Cleo Kirkland Jennifer Wettlaufer Adam Lepofsky Akwanne Onuoha & Stephanie White Adam & Allison Sinclair Amy E. Wilson Scott A. Little Jennifer Orange & Lisa Talbot Sandy Mary Skotnicki-Grant Heather Wilson John & Areta Lloyd Kathleen Panchuk Julia Sliskovic Susan Wilson & Marta Papa Jordana Loeb Sarah Pape Clare Smith Mr. Gordon Winston Le Luang Diana K. Parker Jennifer Smith & Mrs. Khosrowshahi-Winston Angela Luong Paul Pathak Kevin W. Smith Norm Woo Susan Luxton Antonio Patriarca Ravi Sood Simon Wookey Mr. Gregory & Dr. Susan MacKenzie Elizabeth Patrick Kristina Soutar Shara Wright Michael Mallinos Abhishek Paul Giancarlo Speciale Jody Wright-Roberts Lindsay Maskell Edward Penwarden Michelle S. Staudohar Hilary Wynne Timothy P. Mather Erik Penz Elisabeth Stavropoulos Linda Young & Brian Blendick Anne Mbuthia & Regina Sheung Jeffrey Pervanas Mr. David T. Stevenson Peter AP Zakarow & Kristin L Matthews Curtis McCone & Mary Heath Jacqueline Petrovski Ariane Stren James Zibarras Lindsey McFarlane Johanne Petrovski Claire Sturgess Borna Zlamalik

29 DIRECTOR'S CIRCLE Ms. Joanna Chesterman Mr. James Forster Mr. Arthur Palmer Kennedy ($600 -1,500) & Mr. Richard Betel Dr. Lynn From Mr. Brent & Mrs. Karen Key Dr. Donald A. & Mrs. Marilyn Chisholm Dr. Murray B. Frum & Ms. Nancy Lockhart Ms. Naomi Kirshenbaum Dr. Hani & Mrs. Suzanne Akoury Mr. Christopher Chisholm Ms. Ann Galvin & Mr. R. J. Garside Mrs. Sandy Kloepfer Mr. G. Ross & Mrs. Janet Amos & Mr. James Burke Ms. Ann & Mr. Eric Gawman Ms. Marina Kovrig Mr. Allen Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Brian Chu Mr. Tony & Mrs. Anita Genua Ms. Valarie Koziol & Mr. Reubens Geraldo Ms. Wendy Chui Mr. David & Ms. Barbara Gibb Ms. Valerie Kuinka Mr. Paul F. Anisman Ms. Joyce R. Clark Mr. Walter & Mrs. Maureen Godsoe & Mr. Richard Margison Mr. Jairo Arango Mr. Peter McArthur & Ms. Cathy Clarke Mrs. Gilda & Mr. Jared Goodman Mr. Nicholas Kypreos Mrs. John A. Auclair Ms. Catherine A. Clarke Ms. Yasmine & Ms. Joelle Goodwin & Mrs. Anne-Marie Kypreos Mr. Peter & Ms. Rae Aust Mr. Raymond & Mrs. Irene Collins Mr. Samuel Gotfrid Mr. John B. Lawson Mr. J. David Bambrick Mrs. Mary & Mr. J. Connacher Mr. Robert W. Gouinlock Ms. Terry S. Leibel Mr. Jeffery A. Barnes Ms. Betty E. Cooey & Dr. Daniel Boyko Ms. Pat Govaerts Mr. Andrew Lengyel & Ms. Beverly Tarshis & Ms. Marcia B. Zuker Ms. P. J. Cross Mr. John G. Greey Mr. Brian & Mrs. Pamela Light Ms. Ellen Bean Dr. Blaine Currie Ms. Anna L. Guthrie Mrs. Roselyn Loren Mr. Jim Beqaj Mr. Simon & Mrs. Michele Curtis Dr. Ralph & Mrs. Roslyn Halbert Ms. N. L. Y. Love & Mr. Jon E. Love Mrs. Catharina Birchall Mr. Tim & Mrs. Joanne Daciuk Mrs. Mary E. Hall Mrs. Brenda Lowes Mr. John & Mrs. Barbara Black Ms. Maureen G. Dancy Mrs. Edythe D. Hall Mrs. MaryAnn Lowry & Mr. Keith Lowry Mr. John & Mrs. Nancy Bligh Mr. Stuart Davidson Mr. Lyle Hall Ms. Josephine Mabaling Mr. David & Mrs. Christine Blizzard Mr. Roger Davies & Ms. Jasmine Watts Mr. Chuck Hantho Dr. David MacIntosh Mr. Robert Boardman & Ms. Connie Zehr Mr. Thomas & Mrs. Arlynne Davis Mr. Mathew Harding Mrs. Robin & Mr. John Maitland Mr. John Bonin Mr. Jacob & Ms. Suzane De Leeuw & Mrs. Janice Harding Mrs. Frances Mandell-Arad Mrs. Jane Bracken Mr. Perry & Mrs. Sue Dellelce Victor H. Harris Mr. Michael R. Mannings Mrs. Carolyn Bradley-Hall Ms. & Mr. Amanda Demers Ms. Cheryl Hauser & Mr. Robert B. Davis Mr. Donald & Mrs. Pauline Marston & Mr. William R. Bradley Dr. Timothy Dickinson & Dr. Meher Shaik Mrs. Mary E. Herron-Mead Mr. Wilmot & Mrs. Judith Matthews Mr. Ian W. Braff & Mrs. Sally B. Braff Mr. David Dime & Mrs. Elisa Nuyten & Mr. Charles Mead Mr. John & Mrs. Susan Maynard Mr. J. Frank Brookfield Mr. John Donald & Ms. Linda Chu Mr. John Higgins & Mr. Chris Higgins Mr. Glenn McCauley & Mr. Dean Smith Mr. Alan & Mrs. Nusin Brown Mr. Keshava Dookie Mrs. Jennifer & Mr. George Howse Mr. Curtis McCone Mr. William Bruce Ms. Joanne Downey & Dr. James Kulchyk Ms. Margaret Huybers Mr. Michael Levine Mr. H. A. Buckley Mrs. Patricia Dumas Mr. Eric Ireland & Ms. Mary McGowan Mr. Bruce Burgess Mr. J. Edmeads & Dr. Catherine Bergeron Mr. Pheroze & Ms. Kimberley Jeejeebhoy Ms. Leila Mitchell McKee Mr. Christopher Byrne Mr. William Edwards Mrs. Eyton Jennings Mr. James & Mrs. Gloria McSherry & Ms. Anda Whiting Ms. Christine Elliott & Mr. James Flaherty & The Hon. Mr. Justice J. R. R. Jennings Ms. Carol Moore & Leslie Moore Mr. Michael Campbell Ms. Sharon Evans Mr. Ralph Jessup Mr. Roger D. Moore Ms. Marcia Cardamore Miss Carole Fabris Mr. William Johnston Mr. Theodore Morris Mr. Ken & Mrs. Denise Cargill Mrs. M. Roxalyn & Miss Judith Finch Mr. Edward E. Kassel & Mrs. Jennifer Goudey Mr. W. Brian & Mrs. Charlotte Carter Mr. Ivan & Mrs. Ida Fok & Mrs. Lyne Noel de Tilly Mrs. Doreen & Mr. Tom Motz

30 Ms. Shyamasree Muermans Mr. Dale Simpson Mr. Peter & Mrs. Leslie Myres & Mrs. Margaret Simpson Mr. Michael Nairne Mr. David & Mrs. Patricia Smukler & Ms. Joanne Swystun Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Spindler Ms. Deborah Nathan & Mr. Ed Bean Ms. Nancy Sprott Mrs. Alanne O'Gallagher Mrs. Doreen Stanton Miss Toshi Oikawa Mrs. Deanie & Mr. Stephen Starkman & Ms. Nobuko Oikawa Mr. Bruce & Mrs. Eleanor Stevenson Mrs. Louise S. O'Shea Mrs. Anne R. Stinson Mr. Albert Pace Ms. Marilyn Stonehouse Mr. Michael Padonou Mrs. Kathleen Sullivan Mrs. Barbara Palk & Mr. John Warwick Mr. Frank Surette & Ms. Gloria Humeniuk Mrs. Linda & Mr. Karl Erik Parnoja Mr. Stephen Tatrallyay Ms. Beatrice Paterson & Ms. Leanne McPhie Mr. David & Mrs. R. Anne Patterson Mr. Richard & Mrs. Heather Thomson Ms. Elizabeth Payea-Butler Ms. Gillaine Truelove Ms. Marjorie Pepper & Mr. Michael Farrant Dr. Lillian Perigoe Mrs. Mary Rose Van Kesteren Mrs. M. C. Phillips-Devitt & Mr. Andre Van Kesteren Mr. W. Pigott & Mrs. Carole Pigott Dr. Wolfgang Vogel & Dr. Vanita Jassal Ms. Laurie Pinkas & Mr. Colm Caffrey Ms. Lorraine Vosu Mr. Brayton Polka & Mr. Chris Aklop Mr. Ronald Walker & Ms. Susan Monteith Mr. Gary Pottruff & Ms. Marie Verschuuren Mrs. Lenore Walters & Miss Sarah Walters Mr. Howard Reininger Ms. Benita Warmbold Ms. Grace Roach Mr. Peter Webb & Mrs. Joan York Ms. Suzanne Robillard Mr. Paul Webster Mr. Sheldon Robinson Mrs. Libby Wildman & Ms. Lindsey Robinson Mr. Brian B. Wilks & Mr. Dalton Robertson Teck Cominco Ltd. President & CEO, Donald R. Lindsay (R) giving $10 million gift to ROM Elaine & Annie Roper Mr. Terry Wilson & Ms. Colleen Clarke Director & CEO, William Thorsell (L) for Renaissance ROM. Mr. & Mrs. N. W. Ross Mr. James Wilson Dr. Peter & Mrs. Carol Rothbart Mrs. Irene Withers Mrs. Cynthia Rowden Mr. Greg & Mrs. Anna Woods Mr. David A. Ruston Mr. David & Mrs. Susan Worts Dr. Andre Schuh Mr. Ming Young & Ms. Julie Chan Ms. Dorothy Shoichet Ms. Jessie Yurman Ms. Cori Simms Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Zucker Mrs. Michelle Zuckerman

31 ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS BALANCE SHEET AS AT MARCH 31

2007 2006 $ [000's] $ Assets Current Due from The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation 1,089 855 Other accounts receivable 4,298 2,025 Inventories 115 94 Deferred exhibition costs and other assets 1,930 999 Total current assets 7,432 3,973 Deferred pension costs 4,233 2,043 Capital assets, net 241,741 194,521 Other assets 1,144 1,387 254,520 201,924

Liabilities And Net Defi cit Current Bank indebtedness 4,690 2,208 Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 27,784 26,318 Deferred contributions 3,091 2,875 Total current liabilities 35,565 31,401 Long-term debt 58,736 40,745 Deferred capital contributions 165,791 103,479 Accrued non-pension liability 2,937 2,502 Total liabilities 263,029 205,127

Net defi cit (8,509) (3,203) 254,520 201,924

A complete set of ROM financial statements with notes is available upon request.

32 ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS AND CHANGES IN NET DEFICIT

Nine-month Year ended period ended March 31, March 31, 2007 2006 $ [000's] $ Revenues Grants 24,599 18,658 Admission fees 3,117 2,223 Museum programs 1,765 1,241 Ancillary services 5,319 2,077 Investment income 87 39 Donations - Gifts in kind 978 1,184 Amortization of deferred capital contributions 3,421 2,456 Other 1,844 812 41,130 28,690

Expenses Curatorial and collections management 10,812 7,838 Building, security and visitor services 8,571 5,689 Ancillary services 4,671 1,858 General and administration 2,940 2,879 Education and public programs 2,621 1,763 Library and information services 2,673 1,794 Exhibition and gallery development 2,024 1,412 Marketing and public relations 2,285 1,590 Temporary exhibitions 2,607 1,619 Artifacts and specimens Gifts in kind 978 1,184 Purchased 2,328 1,556 Amortization of capital assets 3,685 2,552 Other 241 111 46,436 31,845 Deficiency of revenues over expenses for the period (5,306) (3,155)

Net deficit, beginning of period (3,203) (48) Net deficit, end of period (8,509) (3,203)

33 Photo Credits Front cover: Cladding installation, April 12, 2006, David McKay Front and back inside covers: Snow on the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, Winter 2007, Al Shaikoli Back cover (clockwise from upper left): Series showing the construction of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, Al Shaikoli

Inside pages: Dr. Caron, ROM2007.9070.10 (pg 5), Brian Boyle Construction, March 2006 & March 2007 (pg 8), Brian Boyle AIDS (pg 10), Brian Boyle Gli italiani si voltano (pg 11), Mario De Bias Royal Ontario Museum Travelling exhibition (pg 13), Erin Armstrong Junior paleontologist, ROM2007.8930.2 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6 (pg 14), Wanda Dobrowlanski www.rom.on.ca Murchison meteorite. ROM2006.7292.1 (pg 17), Brian Boyle The Royal Ontario Museum is an agency of War Record Robe. ROM2006.79.1 (pg 17), Arni Brownstone the Government of Ontario. Balustrade depicting a Yali Kandy. ROM2006.86.1 ISSN 0082-5115 (pg 17), Deepali Dewan Detail of velvet. ROM2006.58.1 (pg 17) © 2007 Royal Ontario Museum. All rights reserved. Robert Schad, ROM2006.8140.16 (pg 18), Brian Boyle Rita Tsang (pg 23), ROM Governors An on-line version of this report is available at www.rom.on.ca PROM (pg 27), ROM Governors Viva ROMa (pg 28), Carole Iritz A French version of this publication is available on request. Donald Lindsay & William Thorsell, ROM2007.8905.3 Une version française de cette publication est disponible sur demande. (pg 31), Brian Boyle Printed and bound in Canada.

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