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Writing on Walls - conversation with Gallery Text Editor, Christine Caroppo
![It's everywhere, but how does gallery text come to be where it is? Gallery Text Editor, Christine Caroppo gives us some insight. Image of gallery text for the GENESIS exhbition](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/2013-06-13_14.18.04_1.jpg?itok=KPwMKr8A)
Gallery text is everywhere, but where does it come from?
Museums, stories and things.
![Image of visitors in the Birds Gallery Visitors in the Birds Gallery](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/birds169.jpg?itok=EX0PRzwP)
Get ready for an insider's look at the ROM from someone who's usually very far outside of it.
Ontario Road Ecology Group - Protecting biodiversity from the threat of roads
![Ontario Road Ecology Group Logo](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/oreg_logo_16x9.jpg?itok=Ix8eOjrF)
Authored by Mandy Karch.
The Ontario Road Ecology Group (OREG) has been working to protect biodiversity from the threats of roads through research, policy and stewardship initiatives with our partners. The Heart Lake Road in Brampton cuts through protected wetland complexes, and OREG has been there to help.
The Making of Mesopotamia
Take a look behind the scenes as we prepare for the opening of the Mesopotamia exhibition on June 22.
The Cat's Tomb
![The Cat's Tomb display Image of cat's eyes](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/pic_1.jpg?itok=8IbmaLzN)
Special display in the Ancient Egypt gallery, Summer 2013
Into the Heart of Borneo - A Month on Mulu Mountain & LIVE Google Hangout
![Chris Darling looks towards the summit of Mulu the night before his final ascent. (Photo: Joshua J. See) Entomologist Chris Darling looks at the mountain during sunset.](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/mulu8383-001.jpg?itok=7pbixPmA)
ROM Biodiversity researchers studying insects, fungi, and mammals have been discovering new species in the heart of Borneo, in Gunung Mulu National Park, throughout the month of May....
Into the Heart of Borneo - Gunung Mulu National Park
![](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/jjsl3674.jpg?itok=R5XZfkNh)
The ROM Biodiversity "Borneo" team has landed in Sarawak, and have been spending the last several days organizing equipement, permits and buying machetes....
Toronto Space Apps Challenge hackathon results
On the weekend of April 19 to 21, 2013, the ROM was host partner for the Toronto Space Apps Challenge hackathon...
Behind the Camera: ROM Images creation
![ROM Photographer Brian Boyle using fibre optic lighting to photograph a monazite specimen. Photo Credit: Tiffany Cuthbert Portrait of ROM photographer Brian Boyle, by Tiffany Cuthbert](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/blog_post/thumbnail/rom2011_11799_4_0.jpg?itok=HepLMenG)
The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival starts today which makes May a busy month for Brian Boyle the ROM’s Senior Photographer.
ROM Curator Jean-Bernard Caron is a “Science Superstar” and “Big Thinker”
This week’s cover story in The Grid, a popular Toronto news and entertainment weekly, features “Big Thinkers… 10 young science superstars.” ...