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A Generous Life and an Enduring Legacy

A Generous Life and an Enduring Legacy

Few people can lay claim to building the foundations of a city. The late Arthur Kennedy is on that short list. As a lifelong civil servant, Arthur played a pivotal role in developing and overseeing the water system for the Region of Peel, an impressive feat of engineering that continues to serve

Learning by Heart

Learning by Heart

Nearly two decades after receiving an invitation to attend a curatorial event at ROM, the Museum has become like a second home to Neera Chopra and her husband, Deepak. They became members of the Royal Patrons Circle and Neera was drawn to contributing in a more meaningful way. She began

Collector’s Items

Collector’s Items

When Ali Adil Khan and his wife Shehla emigrated from Pakistan over 30 years ago, Canadian art provided a way to connect to their new home. Ali Adil began collecting artworks depicting the Canadian wilderness – slowly at first and on a shoestring budget, eventually progressing to larger

A Lifelong Passion for ROM

A Lifelong Passion for ROM

Doug Gibson has loved the ROM since childhood. Some of his earliest memories are of going to the Museum with his mother in the early 1950s, which sparked a lifelong fascination with natural history. “Back then, they had a crystal cave in the geology gallery,” he recalls. “When you looked into

Weaving Her Magic

Weaving Her Magic

A self-proclaimed “museum person,” Flavia Redelmeier was a steadfast supporter of the Royal Ontario Museum for most of the Museum’s history. As a young girl in the 1930s and 1940s, an interest in bird watching and the natural world led Flavia and her brother to join the Junior Field

Janice Price nommée directrice générale des gouverneurs du ROM

Janice Price nommée directrice générale des gouverneurs du ROM

À la suite d’une vaste recherche internationale menée en collaboration avec Isaacson, Miller: Executive Search, le Conseil des gouverneurs du Musée royal de l’Ontario est heureux d’annoncer la nomination de Janice Price au poste de directrice générale des gouverneurs du ROM, la fondation