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Biodiversity Series wins award!

The Ontario Association of Landscape Architects recognized the City of Toronto Biodiversity Series of booklets with their Service to the Environment award. The award is “In recognition of the recipient’s ongoing contribution in supporting sensitive, sustainable stewardship of the

« The Origins of Chintz », retour sur l’exposition des années 1970

« The Origins of Chintz », retour sur l’exposition des années 1970

« L’indienne… le tissu exotique qui a fasciné l’Europe…si populaire que l’Angleterre et la France l’ont interdit … ce tissu a révolutionné l’industrie de l’impression textile en Europe. » C’est ainsi que s’exprimaient les auteurs de la brochure accompagnant la grande

The Living Room: Photography in the Public and Private

The Living Room: Photography in the Public and Private

By Maya Wilson-Sanchez For almost nine months now, I’ve had the wonderful experience of working, writing, researching, and creating alongside a class of dedicated and talented undergraduate and graduate students at OCAD University as well as our instructors, and curators and staff at the ROM. It

#ThrowbackThursday: Tight Schedule

In September, 1971, the 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 powerhouse duo 'Burnham and Burnham’, aka

Conservation Intern Spotlight: Natasa Krsmanovic

Conservation Intern Spotlight: Natasa Krsmanovic

As a web intern at the ROM, the last place you’d expect me to visit is the Conservation department—which is situated many floors above my office! You may be surprised by how necessary it is for such contrasting departments to establish a close working relationship. But it is an interconnected

Illustrations that Bring the Past Back to Life!

Illustrations that Bring the Past Back to Life!

Meet Danielle Dufault—she is the Royal Ontario Museum's paleaontological illustrator. Danielle’s job requires her to reconstruct or depict prehistoric life according to current knowledge and scientific evidence using several illustrative techniques. Working closely with the researchers

Weapon Wednesday: The Long History of an Irish Bronze Age Sword

Weapon Wednesday: The Long History of an Irish Bronze Age Sword

A bronze sword in the ROM's collection (ROM no.909.68.1) has an interesting history. It is of a type named after Ewart Park, a site in Northumberland in Northern England. The type seems to have developed in what is now Northern England, and became the main sword type of the Late Bronze Age of

 Le cycle de vie d’un nouveau fossile. Venez rencontrer un ancien cousin du polychète.

Le cycle de vie d’un nouveau fossile. Venez rencontrer un ancien cousin du polychète.

Karma Nanglu Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé comment on en vient à décrire un nouveau fossile? Avez-vous déjà ramassé un ver de terre, un jour de pluie, en vous demandant d’où venait cet animal »? Dans ce blogue du ROM, je vous expliquerai petit à petit la description du fossile

Going Dark

Going Dark

Blog by Doug Wallace The culture of government secrecy and society's indifference to it are quickly becoming a troubling trend. With his talk at the upcoming 11th annual Eva Holtby Lecture on Contemporary Culture, part of the ROM Speaks series, constitutional lawyer and civil liberties

To X-Ray an Egg: Behind the Scenes of Empty Skies

To X-Ray an Egg: Behind the Scenes of Empty Skies

“That egg is approximately one hundred and forty-four years old,” says Brad Millen, a technician who works in the ROM’s Natural History collections. Suddenly the large speckled shell that sits in the palm of my hand feels just a little bit heavier. I feel the weight of its place in the world-