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Give the Gift of ROM Membership

ROM Membership- The Gift That Gives All Year Long Give family and friends a ROM Membership—a year-long, all-access pass to 4 billion years of beauty and wonder. Members enjoy free and unlimited admission to galleries and exhibitions, exclusive previews, events, discounts, and more. ROM Members

The Art of Creating a Legacy

The Art of Creating a Legacy

As a DMV member for over 35 years, Josephine Breyfogle was always willing to take on new challenges—challenges to help advance the Museum’s mission and impact in the community. Thanks to a thoughtful gift in her estate, she will continue to do that for many years to come. Before she passed away

Friends of the ROM

Friends groups are Associated Committees of ROM's Department of Museum Volunteers  and have been an enthusiastic and engaged presence in the Museum for many years. The first group, Bishop White Committee, was founded in 1960. Since then other groups have been established. Made up of people

The Book of Life

The Book of Life

By Dr. Victoria Arbour, ROM Postdoctoral Researcher   The history of life on Earth is a story told through the layers of the fossil record: new species evolve and others go extinct, and we see these changes in the fossils that palaeontologists excavate and then study in museums. Much like a book,

Building Blocks of the ROM

Submitted by Vincent Vertolli, Assistant Curator Geology Opened in 1933, the addition facing Queen's Park features materials found in Ontario quarries. The Rotunda part of the familiar west wing of the ROM facing Queen’s Park Drive was, for many years, the main Entrance Hall. For countless

Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead at ROM

Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead at ROM

Travel to Egypt, the land where the Book of the Dead of Amen-em-hat was written over 2,300 years ago and uncover the story of this mystical scroll. Acquired in Egypt in the early 20th century by the Royal Ontario Museum and brought back to Toronto, most of this beautiful papyrus scroll has remained

The secret of Oesia: a Burgess Shale mystery, by Karma Nanglu

My name is Karma Nanglu and I’m a PhD student at the University of Toronto, but on a day-to-day basis I do my research at the Royal Ontario Museum. I’ve recently co-authored a research paper, Cambrian suspension-feeding tubicolous hemichordates, with Jean-Bernard Caron, Curator, Invertebrate

Smudging Blue: Honouring the Spirit of Our Whale

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

Artists of the Floating World, Part II

Written by Josiah Ariyama Supervised by Dr. Asato Ikeda   In the sunset years of his life and a hundred years before Perry, Suzuki Harunobu revolutionized the woodblock printing method, rendering previous methods obsolete. In Part II we look at nishiki-e, full-coloured prints from 1765 onward.