Author Archive: ROM
Monthly Archive: December ROM
Exhibit A: Light of the Desert Cerussite Gem
At 900 carats, this magnificent gemstone is the world's largest faceted specimen of the mineral cerussite.
Chihuly Around the World
Chihuly’s permanent installations appear all over the world.
High-Tech Biodiversity
The Bog Copper story and the power of citizen science
Interview with Dale Chihuly
We recently had a chance to meet the artist as he prepared for his ROM exhibition and ask him a few questions about his spectacular work…
Yukon BioBlitz: Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun
Blog by Stacey Lee Kerr, Biodiversity Storyteller / Creative Producer for the ROM's Centre for Biodiversity
The idea of what “midnight sun” really means is rather obscure to the uninitiated traveller. It doesn’t strike home until you’ve been sitting at a picnic table with some entomologists while they pin bees and flies without anything more than the ambient light, and you realize it’s almost midnight when it looks and feels more like 8pm...
What's the Buzz on Bees?
Antonia Guidotti, is an Entomology Technician at the ROM.
ROM Celebrates National Aboriginal Day!
On June 21st, the ROM Learning Department began National Aboriginal Day celebrations with a cleansing ceremony using Sweet Grass to start the day off in a good, positive way led by Justin Chiblow, Kiowa Wind Memorial Indigenous Youth Intern.
Visit #ChihulyTO BEFORE we open!
Our next #emptyROM in in #ChihulyTO!
BioBlitz at the Edge of Beringia
Blog by Stacey Lee Kerr, Biodiversity Storyteller / Creative Producer for the ROM's Centre for Biodiversity
What makes the Yukon a special place for the Biological Survey of Canada to conduct a bioblitz?