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10th Annual Eva Holtby Lecture

10th Annual Eva Holtby Lecture

We were thrilled to welcome Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, President of the Sharjah Art Foundation and Director of the Sharjah Biennial   to the ROM for the 10th annual Eva Holtby Lecture on Contemporary Culture on November 10. More than 400 people heard Al Qasimi live at the ROM and via Synaptop

Sports et divertissements: a unique resource for researchers in design history

Sports et divertissements: a unique resource for researchers in design history

Post by Ketzia Sherman The ROM Library & Archives recently acquired a rare copy of Sports et divertissements, a musical score by Erik Satie with pochoir illustrations by Charles Martin, hand-coloured by Jules Saudé (Paris: Publications Lucien Vogel, [1923]). Sports et divertissements is a

Library & Archives Guidelines

Access and Circulation Information regarding access, circulation, borrowing privileges, loan periods, fines, and inter-library loans Archives, Special Collections, and Rare Book User Registration and Agreement Required for patrons seeking to consult archival, special collections, or rare book

Sir Robert Ludwig Mond

A chemist, industrialist and archaeologist, Sir Robert Ludwig Mond followed the motto: “Make yourself necessary”. Born to a famous chemist, Sir Robert Mond carried out research in his father’s firm which in 1926 was incorporated into Imperial Chemical Industries. In the early 1900s, he was

Fonds de dotation nommé

Faites profiter les futures générations du Musée En planifiant votre don, vous pouvez à la fois réaliser vos objectifs financiers et aider le Musée à concrétiser sa mission. Depuis plus d’un siècle, le ROM s’impose comme une ressource indispensable pour tisser des liens dans la

A Rare and Beautiful Bird

  Their distinctive heart-shaped face actually helps improve their hearing. With lop-sided ears, they can easily pinpoint prey with sound alone. Photo by Steve Brace The ROM’s Ornithology collection received a very special gift this holiday, a Barn Owl (Tyto alba) was donated by Tyler Hoar, a

Summerasaurs Interactive: Ask a Palaeontologist

Dr. David Evans on-site in southern Alberta Want to know how palaeontologists discover new dinosaur species? How about finding about what it takes to get a dinosaur out of the ground and into the lab? Any other questions about hunting dinosaurs? Get the answers Wednesday, August 10 at 1:00 pm. Join

#ThrowbackThursday: Hanging the Curtains

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

REER/FERR/régimes de retraite

Pour beaucoup de gens, le montant d’impôts qu’ils doivent l’année de leur décès est supérieur à la somme qu’ils ont payée n’importe quelle autre année. L’une des raisons possibles serait le revenu supplémentaire produit par la disposition présumée de certains biens au

Stages

Stages au ROM Dans le cadre de notre mission – piquer la curiosité, faire des découvertes et transmettre notre émerveillement –, nous sommes fiers d’aider la relève muséale en proposant des stages aux jeunes. Les stagiaires peuvent acquérir de l’expérience de travail dans un milieu