The history of the ROM in Toronto Stay in the loop Sign up for our free email newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. My earliest memories of the Royal Ontario Museum date from the 1940s, when my father took my brother and me downtown to view a parade on University Avenue. When it started to rain, he decided that we should go into the museum. I was a young boy at the time, and the dinosaurs, the Egyptian mummy, and the mounted animals in the natural history section fascinated me. An Egyptian relic on display from an exhibiton at the ROM in 1966. Photo by Dick Darrell via the Toronto Library Archives.