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Seeds in Disguise: A Travelling Exhibit

Want to bring a great seedy exhibit to your community? The Royal Ontario Museum is offering a fantastic travelling exhibit, called Seeds in Disguise: The Biology & Lore of Ornamental Seeds. This exhibit invites you to explore the ordinary, delighting all ages and levels of interest, from the curious child, to the backyard botanist, to the seasoned hiker, and everyone in between.

Seeds are all around us: we eat them; we plant them; they parachute from dandelions; they catch in the dog’s coat or on your socks; they drop from the trees; and sometimes they even hang around your neck. This exhibition features ornamental seeds “disguised” as beads in jewellery, trinkets and ornaments.

Like people, seeds have many interesting facets to their complex biology. Travel, chemistry, medicine, and industry are part of the stories of the ornamental seeds featured. This exhibition is colourful and elegantly laid out, accompanied by a school case full of activities and hands-on objects to share with your visitors.

Topics covered:

• Beans: Diversity in a Plant Family
• Seed Signals
• Seeds from Food Plants
• Seeds with Commercial Use
• Poisonous Seeds Among Us
• On the High Seas

Visit the ROM's Seeds in Disguise web page for more detailed information about the exhibit's components and curriculum links. Available in both English and French, this exhibit has already been travelling around Ontario, and you could bring it to your community anywhere across the country.

For more information about booking a travelling exhibition for your venue, please contact:
Travelling Exhibitions' Coordinator
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto, ON
M5S 2C6

Tel: 416.586.5681
Fax: 416.586.5832
E-mail: travellingexhibitions@rom.on.ca

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