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Smudging Blue: Honouring the Spirit of Our Whale
Guest blog written by 2017 Environmental Visual Communication student Rachel Brown Kim Wheatley is an Anishinaabe mother and grandmother of the Shawanaga First Nation. I met Kim at the ROM where she offered a traditional prayer and blessing for the bones and heart of ‘Blue,’ the whale who is
Glimpses of Upper Burma: Clement Williams (1833-1879)
In 2014-2016, ROM received a collection of rare photographs, documents and artifacts once belonging to Clement Williams, one of the first Europeans to live in the Kingdom of Ava (Kingdom of Burma). This region was referred to as Upper Burma by the British, who had annexed Lower Burma after the
From the Field: Last day before departure
July 26 It’s our last full day here. Tomorrow morning we fly back south to Winnipeg - if the weather cooperates. The forecast is calling for possible thunderstorms all the way up the west coast of Hudson Bay past Arviat to Rankin Inlet and Baker Lake, where our flight originates. Typical … I
Summerasaurus Part IV: How to Find Dinosaurs
Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the badlands of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs. Join us as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing discoveries, how dinosaurs are found
Migration: The Long and Bumpy Road
"Migration" by Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Cockwell Gallery dedicated to First Peoples art & culture As we enjoy this summer in Toronto, moving from heat wave, to flooding rain, to hailstorm, one is always aware that winter is indeed coming! Some of us greet Canada’s national season
Nature Stories through Photography: Insights from Connor Stefanison
Guest Blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Sean de Francia The world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition has served as an important channel to bring ecology and biodiversity to the centre of conversation. Since its beginnings, the travelling exhibition has
Sebastian Kvist: Leech Hunter
Guest blog by Environmental Visual Communication student Sally McIntyre Sebastian Kvist: The Face of ROM Invertebrates Who is Sebastian Kvist? When most people think about the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), they think of dinosaurs or mummies. However, it is the invertebrates that live on the ocean
Meteorite or “Meteor-wrong”?
ROM Earth Scientists receive dozens of requests each year to identify possible meteorites. This is especially the case when there is a spectacular fireball similar to the one which recently streaked across southern Ontario on December 12 of this year (the video was captured by astronomers at the
Unearthing the oldest dinosaur nesting site
Fig. 1. Reconstruction of a Massospondyus nesting site. Courtesy J. Csotonyi Today, an international team that includes leader University of Toronto at Mississauga palaeontologist Dr. Robert Reisz and myself announced the discovery of the oldest known dinosaur nesting site, detailed in a article
Five Questions with Krishna
Submitted by Netta Kornberg, Intern with the Institute for Contemporary Culture. In 2008, when Srinivas Krishna ’s When the Gods Came Down to Earth was installed in front of the ROM, we had no idea he’d be back three years later, this time for Bollywood stars rather than Hindu Gods. On Sunday