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The ROM offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see these
historical treasures
from June 27, 2009 to January 3, 2010
Toronto, Ontario - One of the most important exhibitions in
the history of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) opens in Toronto
on Saturday, June 27, 2009. Until January 3, 2010, Dead Sea
Scrolls: Words that Changed the World will be displayed in the
Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall, located on Level B2 in the
ROM’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal.
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been the objects of great scholarly
and public interest, as well as heated debate and controversy,
since their discovery over 60 years ago. The ROM will display 16
authentic Dead Sea Scrolls during its six month engagement-eight
different Scrolls for each three-month period-including
fragments from the books of Genesis, Deuteronomy and Psalms. A
fragment of the Ten Commandments, a text containing the most
prominent biblical laws and obligations that, according to
Jewish and Christian traditions, form the foundations of the
relationship between man and God, will be featured for a limited
time. Four fragments, never before publicly displayed, are being
conserved especially for the exhibition. More than 200 artifacts
on loan by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), augmented by
objects from the ROM’s own renowned collections, illuminate the
environment in which these ancient texts were written.
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