Toronto’s Bold (But Ultimately Failed) Museum Experiment

The Royal Ontario Museum opens a new $240 million extension by Daniel Libeskind. “A city as large and complex as Toronto has room for this kind of audacious experiment. There is architectural delirium at the reinvented ROM. And ecstasy, too. The Royal Ontario Museum, like many museums of civilization around the globe, offers collections dedicated to the great artistic triumphs of the world as well as the evolutionary complexity of nature. So, why does it feel as though we’ve landed in the Inferno or possibly the Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy?”