Last week I was walking on Bloor Street past the hoardings on the new Royal Ontario Museum, the kickstart of their second make-good to right the wrongs that architect Daniel Libeskind inflicted on the ROM in 2007.

Like many hoardings, these showed what we’ll enjoy inside and out when the new OpenROM expansion is finished in 2027. It was an elysian vision of happy families of many colours, gender identities, and physical frailties, all enjoying the biggest museum in the land.

But what there wasn’t many of was people of many ages.

Indeed, there were only 5 people with gray hair, the same number of people who were in wheelchairs.

Five out of 329. One point five per cent.

This is not only wrong, it’s dumb.

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