Almost 1,000 gems and 70 gold specimens will light up the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto this summer when the S.R. Perren Gem and Gold Room opens July 3 to the public.
The gems in this permanent gallery will be arranged according to their mineralogical and gemmological groups, with special attention to colors and varieties. A few gem crystals show what gems look like in their natural state before they are cut and polished.
Highlights of the collection will include a peach-colored beryl weighing 1,625 carats; The Star of Lanka, a 193-carat blue star sapphire; a 3,000-carat natural blue topaz; and the G. Grant Waite Opal, a 776-carat gem from Australia.
The Room is named after Dick Perren, an internationally known gem dealer who died in 1986. The S.R. Perren Gem and Gold Room is the first phase and the centrepiece of ROM’s Earth Sciences Gallery which will display minerals, rocks and meteorites.
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