Fake & Forgeries: Yesterday and Today

Beware of fakes!

Here’s your chance to play detective and see if you can tell a fake or a forgery from the real deal—courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum’s exhibition Fakes and Forgeries: Yesterday and Today, on display at the Currency Museum.

About the exhibition

The exhibition features 11 cases, each devoted to a different category of artifacts and their corresponding forgeries. Seven of these cases feature items from the ROM’s collection. Two display modern knock-offs ranging from black market DVD’s to designer brand clothing and accessories. Microsoft Canada and the Bank of Canada contributes a case each on counterfeit computer software and the history of counterfeiting currency in Canada respectively.