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Were These Peruvian Mummies Climate Change Nomads?
Words and photos by Lisa Milosavljevic ROM Ancient (@ROMAncient) is in southern Peru at the 1,400 year old archaeological site of Quilcapampa until the end of August 2016. This is a ROM-led project with Justin Jennings, curator of New World Archaeology. The project is run in collaboration with
A Different Kind of Mezcal Worm: The Story of a Leech, a Manatee and Biodiversity Conservation
Blog by Roegan Vetro, ROM Biodiversity Gallery Facilitator Mezcal is a strong alcoholic beverage arguably best known for the “worm” (which is really a caterpillar) sitting at the bottom of each bottle. Invertebrate zoologists however recently decided to store a different kind of organism in
Canada helps with historic space mission to asteroid Bennu
Written by Christine Tovee, Aerospace Engineer/Technology Leader, ROM Volunteer With two days until lift-off, the countdown for the OSIRIS-REx mission is ticking away and a team led by the Canadian Space Agency has an important sensor payload on board for the trip. On September 8 th, 2016, NASA
Students help Canadian Space Agency promote asteroid mission!
Written by EVC student Matthew Brocklehurst How do you get high school kids interested in space science? This was the question asked of Environmental Visual Communication (EVC) students by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). EVC students working on a storyboard for their CSA video (photo by Vincent
ROM 2016 Game Jam
Written by EVC Student Matthew Brocklehurst The ROM is back at it with its fourth annual Game Jam this weekend, September 16-18th! What is a Game Jam? Well, it is a period over a few days where game developers get together, usually in small teams, for an intense game development workshop. It’s
A Story of Ghana: Exploring the Asafo Flags at the ROM
In the modern sense, a flag has a number of meanings that ultimately culminate into being a symbol, representative of some form of pride- pride in one's country or province, or in a particular organization or entity. We fly the flag of our country when we visit other places to tell everyone
Trees for Toronto- Our Urban Forest
Guest blog by Environmental Visual Communication student Rhi More On this, the first day of fall, imagine the city of Toronto without trees. I think we can all agree that it’s a pretty strange thought – especially as Toronto is home to just over 10 million of them according to Toronto’s 2013
#ThrowbackThursday: Keep Me Warm One Night
Exactly forty-five years ago, in September, 1971, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) opened the landmark exhibition Keep me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial
Remembering Ancient Pottery Traditions
By Richard Zane Smith, Catherine Tammaro, and Craig Cipolla This summer Wyandot artists Richard Zane Smith and Catherine Tammaro visited the Royal Ontario Museum’s New World Archaeology collections. The purpose of their visit was to study a small sample of the ROM’s Wendat pottery collections
LGBT Japan: Past, Present, Future
Pendant que la Fierté Toronto resplendit comme la chaleur de l’été, venez admirer Troisième genre: Les éphèbes dans les estampes japonaises. L’exposition à l’affiche arrive à point nommé, et vous apprécierez la climatisation. Je m’appelle Josiah Ariyama et je travaille comme