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Museum Monday with Melissa- April 13, 2015
Hope you got your tickets for the ROM Sleepover: Nature this Friday! Be able to tell all your friends that you spent a night at the Museum. Families will love travelling the world and visiting ecosystems all while enjoying the sights and sounds of nature. Though sold out, you can definitely give
The Legacy of Pompeii
Getty Villa antiquities curator Kenneth Lapatin talks about the themes of his upcoming lecture “The Enduring Legacy of Rome” at the ROM on November 17. Kenneth Lapatin is a curator at the Getty Villa. Trained as a classical archaeologist, he holds degrees from the University of
A Family's Gift Inspired by a Mother's Dedication
For the past 40 years, the ROM has been Barbara Chisholm’s main volunteer endeavour. She has guided thousands of visitors through the Museum, sharing her love of decorative arts and European history with the public, a delight to all those with the good fortune to experience her lively and
#ThrowbackThursday: Saws and Drills
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
#ThrowbackThursday: Typewriters and Cranky Looms
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
#ThrowbackThursday: Cotton Ceiling
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
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
Into the Heart of Borneo
by Chris Darling, Senior Curator of Entomology Borneo – few places on this planet are as mysterious and alluring, both to scientists and to the public. The world’s third largest island, nestled between Southeast Asia and Australia, contains some of the oldest and most diverse tropical
Winners of the Henry's Capture the Wilderness Contest
In conjunction with the ROM's Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, Henry's exclusively invited ROM members to enter the Capture the Wilderness Contest which ran from February 1- March 20, 2016. ROM Members were asked to tweet their latest and greatest tips for capturing the
Moonbird re-sighting
Back in 1995 ROM ornithologist Dr. Allan Baker was part of an international team that banded a small shorebird in Argentina, a Red-knot soon to become dubbed Moonbird, with a leg band with the number B95 on it. Since then Allan and his team at the ROM along with a growing community of partners