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When Friends come to visit...
elp develop and deliver popular public programs, including Identification Clinics, Family Weekends, March Break and Friday Night Live activities, and ROM Walks. Over the remarkable ROM Revealed weekend in May 2014, they helped guide thousands of visitors through the fossil collections, and in
Words in Images
By Ka Bo Tsang, Assistant Curator – Chinese Paintings & Textiles Most people think of Chinese painting as artwork created by artists using special brushes in combination with ink and colour pigments to give shape to ideas on paper or silk through the adroit manipulation of lines, dots, and
Monday’s Massive Migration
For some more info on the butterfly migration see Antonia’s blog plost from May 4, 2012. They were everywhere across southern Ontario yesterday; even in downtown Toronto. I saw a few in Philosopher’s Walk and across the Bloor St. viaduct. The Red Admirals (Vanessa atalanta) have arrived! One
Re-enactment, Archaeology, and the Ancient Rome & Greece Weekend V of IV: The Final Story
Ancient Rome & Greece Weekend is over, and I thought I would show you the results of my attempt to create a recreation, re-enactment, or impression of a soldier from Dura-Europos (so this is not really one of the original IV, so to speak, hence it is V of IV). In the group above you can see me
BioBlitz Bits- Night of the Newts and Salamanders
Blog by ROM Herpetology Technician Amy Lathrop This is the first of our "BioBlitz Bits" Series- ROM scientists share their favourite stories from past Ontario BioBlitz events My favourite moment from last year's Ontario BioBlitz in the Humber River Watershed would have to when me and
Introducing Habitat the Game to Toronto (and Canada)!
Biodiversity programmes at the Royal Ontario Museum strive to help our public better understand nature and to prevent its loss through communications, research, citizen science, and community engagement. Which is why we're so excited to be partnering with Habitat the Game! Habitat is an
Faces to Remember: Chinese Portraits of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 – 1911)
Currently on display in the Herman Herzog Levy Gallery from May 18, 2013 to February 23, 2014 is the exhibition Faces to Remember: Chinese Portraits of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 – 1911). Located on Level 1 of the ROM’s Philosophers’ Walk building, the Levy Gallery is the
Taking off Zuul’s jacket
Introducing the Zuul Preparation Blog Series: Robin Sissons is a technician at Research Casting International, as well as a scientist with an MSc from the University of Alberta on ankylosaurs. Robin will be working on preparing Zuul’s belly from its encasing rock over the next few years. Stay
A mid-Silurian aquatic scorpion – one step closer to land?
Rocks of the 430 million year old Eramosa Formation Konservat- Lagerstätte on the Bruce Peninsula have produced an amazing new species of aquatic fossil scorpions, Eramoscorpius brucensis, which contributes to our understanding of how scorpions may eventually have moved from the sea onto land.
National Volunteer Week 2017 | Volunteer Spotlight: Anna Chryrsky-Harapa
Anna Chryrsky-Harapa is the Co-Chair of the Outreach Committee at the Department of Museum Volunteers. What inspired you to volunteer at the ROM? The ROM has always played a strong role in my family’s life. The “museum” (at that time the ROM was the only museum of note in Toronto) was my