by Renee Tratch | Dec 2, 2019 | Museum
“Do we have to read everything?” says my 10-year-old as we entered Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches that just opened at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Our family explores museums in very different ways. One like a pinball machine, the other beelining it to...
by Renee Tratch | Mar 20, 2019 | Birthday Parties, Museum
My kids’ hockey worlds revolve around the Crosbys and the Matthews, watching as their teams (‘the Pittsburgs’ and the Leafs) rise and fall in the rankings and which players rack up the points. But these present-day all-stars don’t really top the list (yet)...
by Renee Tratch | Nov 18, 2018 | Museum
There is a big bright happy face along Lake Ontario and Toronto kids are flocking en masse to have a peek. And a pic. A lot of pics. The Happy Place, a massive pop-up experience has taken over part of Harbourfront Centre and is filled with room after room after room...
by Renee Tratch | Nov 12, 2018 | Museum
We gave our brains a big workout at the new Museum of Illusions – now open in Toronto along Front Street near Jarvis. My guys in TOw and I had a sneak peek of the 80-plus exhibits –rooms, installations, holograms, images, puzzles and games – that tricked our...
by Renee Tratch | Oct 22, 2018 | Art, Family Attraction, Museum
“We hope that, through our contribution, today’s generation will be inspired to carry the momentum of this discussion forward…” ~ Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky That from one of Canada’s most-renowned photographers and the reason why I...
by Renee Tratch | Oct 5, 2018 | Family Attraction, Museum
Some of the world’s biggest and baddest spiders have been hanging out in Toronto and we finally got a peek into their worlds – all 400 of them. The live and preserved specimens are the stars of Spiders: Fear and Fascination exhibition on display until January 6,...
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