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Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) "Fakes and Forgeries: Yesterday and Today" (travelling) exhibition (2010-):

- takes a closer look at the devious business of fakery, displaying 115 real/fake artifacts from the ROM's own collections and examples from today’s marketplace, revealing how real some fakes actually appear

- includes contemporary fakes of modern designer brands such as Nike shoes, Calvin Klein jeans, a Maple Leaf Jersey and educational information about pirated computer software courtesy of Microsoft Canada as well as sections on counterfeit currency provided by the Bank of Canada

- teaches visitors how to tell authentic pieces from sly forgeries and lets them discover the fascinating lengths forgers will go to hoodwink the unwary

The 1,500-square-foot exhibition features 11 cases, each devoted to a different category of artifacts and their corresponding forgeries; every display provides hints on how to tell the real from the fraudulent and provides the visitor with a chance to guess an authentic artifact or specimen from an almost identical forgery; seven cases feature items from the ROM’s collection, panning the Museum’s dual mandate of Natural History and World Cultures; two cases display modern knock-offs ranging from black market DVDs to designer brand clothing and accessories

[Date Added/Updated: Jan 21, 2010]