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We’re More Ancient than We Think
![Artifacts grouped on a shelf for storage.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/photo.jpg?itok=vOfaDPMi)
We’re More Ancient than We Think: An afternoon with April Hawkins, New World Archaeology Collection Technician.
Getting Our Game On
![Registration open until July 15, 2013. ROM Game Jam! Foretelling the Past](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/game-jam_11.jpg?itok=OwJXKqvj)
From August 9 to 11, the ROM will be hosting a horde of keen electronic game programmers, designers, artists, coders and other wizards for our first-ever “game jam.”
Stories from 2B - Talking about Canadian History
![Visiting Australian intern chronicles her time with the ROM in a weekly blog, "Stories from 2B" Image of door with text "2B"](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/img_19321_0.jpg?itok=OH6cLLnG)
Australian intern, Maxine Kauter, knows nothing about Canadian history... but that's not stopping her from talking about it.
Oh Canada! Celebrating our history
![Buffalo Seed (2004), by Jane Ash Poitras. Photo by Paul Eichhorn. Buffalo Seed by Jane Ash Poitras](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/poitras_buffaloseed.jpg?itok=lUZo3Y8g)
Recently, the Hon. James Moore, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, announced the creation of a new initiative: Canada History Week...
Mesopotamia: The First Reviews Are In
![Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/meso-blog.jpg?itok=ACNyLzFe)
ur newest feature exhibition, Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World, opened just a few days ago and already, broadcast, digital and print media are buzzing with critical acclaim.
ROM magazine presents a Mystery Object
![What is this? Detail of mystery object](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/deatilsized.jpg?itok=2bdQkXLJ)
Did you know that 97% of the Museum’s collection is not on display? While 30,000 objects do currently grace our exhibition halls, they are just the tip of a very large iceberg cloistered away here on Bloor and Queens Park.
Viktor&Rolf Dolls come to the ROM
![Viktor&Alexandra&Rolf Viktor&Rolf with Alexandra Palmer](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/victorrolf.jpg?itok=ypuXpGCG)
Appearing at the ROM until the end of June, Viktor&Rolf Dolls. Free admission.
Caring for the ROM's Collections
![ROM staff, volunteers, and interns work behind the scenes to care for our collections Woman photographing a clay pot, with a cart holding additional pots in the foreground](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/sarah_thumbnail.jpg?itok=olgfLJL6)
Year round, ROM staff, interns, and volunteers care for our collections behind the scenes.
The Making of "Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity" - by Kati Bruch
![White Rhino in the Schad Gallery of Biodiversity](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/the-making-of-schad-16_9.jpg?itok=mIEi9azO)
On Saturday, June 29, 2013 come visit the "Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity" to participate in our special Curator's Corner event from 11am to 4pm. Celebrate the 4th birthday of the gallery by playing our "You be the Curator" and "Fact or Fiction" games. Visit Earth Rangers Studio to learn more!
Stories from 2B - Week 1: Paying attention to what's behind the curtain
![Visiting Australian intern chronicles her time with the ROM in a weekly blog, "Stories from 2B" Image of door with text "2B"](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/img_19321.jpg?itok=9nnEzW3p)
What are they building in there? A weekly chronicle from communications intern, Maxine Kauter.