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Blue Whale Update: From Trenton with Love

Blue Whale Update: From Trenton with Love

It’s that time of year where many of us are pretty focused on the holidays. Spending time with family and friends, baking and eating loads of treats, and- let’s be honest- the gifts. Finding them, buying them, wrapping them, and getting them to where they need to go, whether the destination is

Infoflash rorqual bleu: De Trenton avec amour

Infoflash rorqual bleu: De Trenton avec amour

Comment expédie-t-on un cœur de rorqual bleu ? Quiconque a déjà offert un cadeau ou expédié un colis connaît bien les joies de l’emballage. Question: comment expédie-t-on le cœur d’un rorqual bleu ?  VIDÉO en anglais De Trenton avec amour : Emballage du cœur d’un rorqual bleu

#EmptyROM 3!

#EmptyROM 3!

Back by popular deman, we're hosting our 3rd #EmptyROM tour and 1st of 2016! This time we will tour the Dinosaur gallery for some alone time with T. rex and the rest of your favourite dinosaurs. February 24th from 8:30-9:30am Know your way around Instagram? Handy with a DSLR? Add your details

Photographer thoughts: A conversation with Mark Peck

Photographer thoughts: A conversation with Mark Peck

Guest Blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Fatima Ali In a recent CBC interview Mark Peck, the Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) very own ornithologist and devoted baseball fan, said, “If the baseball team plays with as much heart as the birds show in everyday life, we'll

Conversations with Theo

Conversations with Theo

Guest post by ROM Member, Anne Thériault     When I was growing up trips to the ROM definitely topped my list of Amazing Fun Stuff I Sometimes Get To Do. When I had a kid of my own, I knew the ROM was something I wanted to share with him- plus I needed somewhere to take him on the days when it

Behind-the-scenes with OKCHF researchers and the ROM's Korean collection

Behind-the-scenes with OKCHF researchers and the ROM's Korean collection

In the summer of 2015 the ROM’s Department of World Cultures hosted a team of Korean researchers from the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation (OKCHF). In August 2016 the OKCHF project team will be returning to the ROM for the second half of this two part assignment in order to finish

Valentine's Day at the ROM: Unique Painting of Lovers

Valentine's Day at the ROM: Unique Painting of Lovers

Guest blog by Sudharshan Duraiyappah, a scholar and instruction at the University of Toronto and the ROM A cursory glance at the 17 th century Kangra painting featuring Radha and her lover Krishna, who according to Hindu mythology is considered an incarnation of the god Vishnu, might elicit a

Clay sealings from Edfu, Egypt in the Greek & Roman collection

Clay sealings from Edfu, Egypt in the Greek & Roman collection

Collected in 1906 by the Royal Ontario Museum's founder, Charles T. Currelly, these Ptolemaic period clay seal impressions were originally used like sealing wax to secure rolls of papyrus documents.   #Ptolemaic seal impressions from #Egypt finally get their turn to be re-housed. Follow their

Remembering Kiowa Wind McComb

Remembering Kiowa Wind McComb

The staff and volunteers of the ROM extend deepest condolences to the family of Kiowa Wind McComb. Kiowa was the Indigenous Youth Intern in the ROM Learning Department through the generous support of Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment and Training and was an exceptionally promising young man. He

En souvenir de Kiowa Wind McComb

En souvenir de Kiowa Wind McComb

Le personnel et les bénévoles du ROM offrent leurs sincères condoléances à la famille de Kiowa Wind McComb. Kiowa était un jeune stagiaire autochtone au sein du Service de l’éducation du ROM grâce au soutien généreux de Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment and Training. Ce jeune homme au