BLOODSUCKERS AT THE ROM

BLOODSUCKERS AT THE ROM

“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...
Museum of Illusions in Toronto

Museum of Illusions in Toronto

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...
Anthropocene at the AGO with Kids in TOw

Anthropocene at the AGO with Kids in TOw

“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...
Spiders at the ROM

Spiders at the ROM

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,...
INFINITY MIRRORS WITH KIDS IN TOw

INFINITY MIRRORS WITH KIDS IN TOw

The AGO’s presentation of Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors in Toronto is a hot ticket. If you manage to score some tickets, the question is: do you or do you not bring the kids? We lucked out (after 8 hours online) to get three tickets to experience the 88-year-old...