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Meet Miss Martin: Behind the Scenes at the ROM Library & Archives
By Nicole Marcogliese Every day for the past couple months I’ve been weaving my way through the first floor galleries searching for an ordinary door, down an ordinary hallway, in order to go somewhere extraordinary: the ROM Library & Archives. Inside the library you can find not only
Cooking up History: Historical Recipe Books
The cookbooks of the past provide information about diet and habits, as well as telling us which foods were expensive treats, and which were commonly available. Many of the foods that appear regularly through the centuries are not often eaten today, like pickled eel, fried lamprey, and cow-heel
Blue Whale Update
Blue Whale Update Last spring, a team from the ROM, including deputy director, Mark Engstrom, and assistant curator, Burton Lim, helped salvage one of two blue whales that had died in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ice pack and washed ashore on the west coast of Newfoundland. This recovery project
Getting Lost with Galloway
We sat down with CBC's Matt Galloway to find out exactly what keeps bringing him back to the ROM By: Douglas Thomson Q: Do you visit the museum often? A: Yes, I have a couple of young kids. We come on a fairly regular basis. Sometimes if there’s a special event, but also sometimes we come
Earth's Archives: Every Rock Tells a Story Part 1
Hermatite By: Ian Nicklin Hematite is a common ore of iron that was extensively mined in northern England in the 19th century. The miners referrred to globular aggregates of hematite, such as this, as "kidney-ore" since it reminded them of the organ. We call this shape
Pompeii Saga: Last Day
The horrors of the Mount Vesuvius eruption were buried under volcanic ash. Thankfully one scholarly young man wrote the story of his own survival. By: Douglas Thomson On the day Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it spewed ash and pumice kilometres into the atmosphere. Small hail-sized pebbles
"Of Angling, and the Art thereof": Fish Tails and Fish Tales
“Of Angling, and the Art thereof I sing, What kinde of Tooles it doth behoue to haue; And with what pleasing bayt a man may bring The Fish to bite within the watry waue.” Fishing has long been pursued to provide food for families and communities, but as early as the 17th century when I. D.
Le projet Photos de famille
La photo de famille, c’est quoi, au juste? Comment influence-t-elle nos souvenirs? Que nous révèle-t-elle sur les expériences migratoires? Que nous raconte-t-elle sur nos histoires nationales? Le réseau FAMILY CAMERA NETWORK, dans lequel s'inscrit le projet appelé Photos de famille, est