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Conservator in the House – In-situ Conservation of the “Tree Cookie”
Submitted by Heidi Sobol, Senior Conservator of Paintings The conservation treatment of the Douglas fir cross-section presently on display in the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity has been underway for the past couple of years … but mainly up in the labs in the Conservation Department
Beautiful Bugs! A New Acquisition
The ROM Library has recently acquired an edition of E. A. Séguy’s Insects, published in the 1920s. The book contains highly coloured and detailed full-page illustrations of insects, executed in the expensive pochoir printing technique favoured at this time. The scientific study of insects
Ladybug, ladybug and more ladybugs
You may have seen lots of ladybird beetles flying about recently. Unlike our native species which are adapted to Canadian winters, the Asian Multicoloured Ladybird Beetle (Harmonia axyridis) has to find a place to hibernate over the winter, usually indoors. With the warm weather we have had this
Clay sealings from Edfu, Egypt in the Greek & Roman collection
Collected in 1906 by the Royal Ontario Museum's founder, Charles T. Currelly, these Ptolemaic period clay seal impressions were originally used like sealing wax to secure rolls of papyrus documents. #Ptolemaic seal impressions from #Egypt finally get their turn to be re-housed. Follow their
Visiting Zuul
By Victoria Arbour Team Zuul had a chance to go check out progress on the belly block at Research Casting International a few weeks ago! The block weighs about 15 000 kilograms right now (about 30 000 lbs), and is absolutely huge – one of the biggest blocks of dinosaur that any of us have ever
Un avenir prometteur
Merci à nos partenaires du programme de bourses de visites scolaires Tous les jours, l’inspiration se manifeste de nombreuses façons incroyables au Musée : un jeune élève qui examine, dans ses mains, de vrais spécimens venant de notre système solaire ou qui est initié au codage
Mexican Cartel lands are home to a newly described species: Goode’s Thornscrub Tortoise
There are now 342 species of turtles and tortoises described, up from 341 yesterday. Although new species are described almost every day, largely from taxonomic groups that include insects and other invertebrates, rarely do scientists describe a new reptile, mammal or bird species. It’s big news,
Sir Edmund Boyd Osler
Grand philanthrope, sir Edmund Boyd Osler a joué un rôle de premier plan dans la création et l’essor du Musée. Edmund Osler a débuté sa carrière comme commis à la Bank of Upper Canada. Il allait devenir président de plusieurs entreprises dont la Compagnie de chemin de fer de l’Ontario
Winter Visitors in Hands-on Biodiversity
It’s that time of year! ROM for the Holidays is finally here, and we’ve been hard at work in the Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-on Biodiversity (HOB for short) getting some new hands-on activities ready to go. First up is the brand-new, never-before-seen touch table that we put together in
Summerasaurus Part II: A Day in the Quarry
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 over the course of the next month as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing