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National Volunteer Week 2017 | Volunteer Spotlight: Jaclyn Firth

Jaclyn is a volunteer at the Hands-on Biodiversity Gallery, and a recipient of the Ontario Service Award in 2017. 1.      What inspired you to volunteer at the ROM? After doing museum studies and while looking for a job, I realized I wanted to keep involved in museum culture. I've always

CANADA 150- Nova Scotia – Black rag doll

CANADA 150- Nova Scotia – Black rag doll

The Canadian Decorative Arts section of the Royal Ontario Museum has a reasonable doll collection, featuring both folk and commercially made dolls. Primarily the dolls represent the backgrounds of Anglophone and Francophone early Canadian settlers, like this handmade dancing doll from Quebec, and

First, Tarantulas in Rouge Park; what’s next?

First, Tarantulas in Rouge Park; what’s next?

By guest blogger Nia Gibson, Coordinator of Education for Sustainable Development Programs, Toronto Zoo The Rouge river valley has been the crux of many local conservation “eureka!” moments, including the conception of the Ontario BioBlitz project! In 2012 over 225 people came together in what

National Volunteer Week 2017 | Department of Museum Volunteers celebrates its 60th anniversary

Blog Post by Vera Hall, President, Department of Museum Volunteers (DMV) DMV Members Volunteer Committee 25th Anniversary Party (May 1982)   In 1957, when the Members’ Volunteer Committee was established, they had no idea that it would grow from its 12 original members to over 550 volunteers

National Volunteer Week 2017 | Volunteer Spotlight: Anna Chryrsky-Harapa

Anna Chryrsky-Harapa is the Co-Chair of the Outreach Committee at the Department of Museum Volunteers. What inspired you to volunteer at the ROM? The ROM has always played a strong role in my family’s life.  The “museum” (at that time the ROM was the only museum of note in Toronto) was my

National Volunteer Week 2017 | Volunteer Spotlight: Doug Gibson

Doug Gibson is a docent, gallery interpreter and ROMWalker at the Department of Museum Volunteers. What inspired you to volunteer at the ROM? I worked 80-100 hours a week for 40 years as a physician and found retirement very difficult. I had always loved history and life sciences and was looking

National Volunteer Week 2017 | Volunteer Spotlight: John Golla

John Golla is the Co-Chair of the Visitor Guides and a Member of the Membership Committee at the Department of Museum Volunteers. What inspired you to volunteer at the ROM?  I love the ROM and it was a chance to contribute to the community. The opportunity for learning and meeting interesting

Opening Night for A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints

Written by Sofia D’Amico (Student at Fordham University) Supervised by Asato Ikeda (Assistant Professor at Fordham University and Research Associate at the Royal Ontario Museum)   Cue the unsophisticated toddler: that’s me. Pan to the setting: that’s Japan Society full of well-established

Tokummia, a new fossil species from the Burgess Shale traces origin of ants, millipedes and lobsters.

Tokummia, a new fossil species from the Burgess Shale traces origin of ants, millipedes and lobsters.

Guest Blog by Cédric Aria, recent PhD graduate from Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary, UofT, who was based at the ROM. Currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology. Science is now commonly seen as an arrow of progress. More and more, through books,

The Essential 10

The Essential 10

  Meet YPC Member Edmund Chien What is your occupation? Sales consultant and conference speaker. What was the last book you read? Great By Choice by Jim Collins. (I’m going through some classics right now). If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?