Of Diamond Rings And Diamonds
At the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, a wonderful exhibition is going to come to an end in a couple of weeks. Called the Nature of Diamonds, this exhibition has been put together by the Canadian arm of DeBeers – and really, who better to do this than the diamond kings themselves?
The exhibition is on at the Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall, located on Level B2 and it traces the story of the diamond from the depths of the earth to the fascinating jewellery that it is used for. The exhibition has made its rounds in the US and Toronto is the only place in Canada that the exhibition has come to.
What this exhibition seeks to do is to position the diamond as a natural substance and how it has journeyed over time through the earth, how it is extracted from the earth, how it is cleaned, honed, cut, polished and set to finally make it an object of wonder. A fascinating exhibition indeed for a stone that has gripped the minds and hearts of people for centuries!