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More Than Just a Job

More Than Just a Job

Meg Beckel’s relationship with ROM began years before ever working here—or anywhere, for that matter.   Like many other ROM volunteers and employees, Meg’s first introduction to the Museum came as a child, when her mother enrolled her and her brother in ROM’s Saturday Morning Club. The

Taking an Interest

Taking an Interest

Sampa Bhadra and John Martin could not have discovered ROM at a more opportune time. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Museum’s online offerings provided a much-needed escape for the two retired physics professors and opened a new avenue of lifelong learning they could enjoy together,

Visites de groupe

Explorez les continents et les siècles passés en une seule journée!   Amenez votre groupe au Musée pour y vivre une aventure qui traversera les époques et les océans. Que vous soyez un groupe de cinq ou de 500 personnes, nous ferons de votre excursion un événement mémorable tout en

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: The Early Years

The 'Goddess' and the Museum: The Early Years

The front pages of The Palace of Minos volume 4.1, published by Sir Arthur Evans in 1935 This is the first of a series of articles that I will be writing as part of the ‘Minoan’ Ivory Goddess Research Project about an icon of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) collection: the ivory and gold female

The Woman Behind the Biggest Heart in the World

The Woman Behind the Biggest Heart in the World

Guest Blog written by 2017 Environmental Visual Communication student Fenella Hood Knife in hand and knee-deep in rotting blubber, Jacqueline Miller is about to do something that has never been done before: carve out a blue whale's heart for preservation. Enveloped in its stench and racing

Growing Collections: East Asian and South Asian Photography

Photograph of educated man in his study by W. H. Grant, gelatin silver print, China, c. 1900. ROM 2011.79.20. Gift in memory of Rev. Dr. William Harvey Grant and Dr. Susannah McCalla Grant, M. D. View of Benares Ghat (temples on the banks of the Ganges River in present-day Vadodara), by S. H. Dagg,

CANADA 150- Nova Scotia – Amos Pewter

CANADA 150- Nova Scotia – Amos Pewter

Mahone Bay is a beautiful town just south of Halifax, on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. I stopped there on a holiday with my family this summer, and was charmed by the sheltered harbour, the tall trees, and the lovely shops. It was a perfect place to stretch our legs and eat some ice cream. When

CANADA 150- Quebec- Hair Memorial

CANADA 150- Quebec- Hair Memorial

The object I want to share today is a small diorama, about 30 centimeters high and 15 centimeters in diameter. It is encased in a glass dome, on a wooden base. The scene is a gravesite, showing an obelisk, a casket marked with a cross, and several trees. The largest tree looks like a model of a

The Healing Power of Dinosaurs: A look at Dinosaur Day at The Hospital for Sick Children

The Healing Power of Dinosaurs: A look at Dinosaur Day at The Hospital for Sick Children

Written by Min Wong, Outreach Volunteer, Member of Friends of Palaeontology Anyone who has listened to an eight year old excitedly describe how a Velociraptor walked on two hind feet and had a huge claw on each foot knows the fascination that children have with dinosaurs. Such was the experience we

Youth Cabinet

APPLY NOW Youth Cabinet (YC) is a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth between the ages of 15-21 years old from Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. The YC is facilitated by Indigenous Museum Educator Leslie McCue, and with the support of the Kiowa Wind Memorial Indigenous Youth Support