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The Living Room: Photography in the Public and Private

The Living Room: Photography in the Public and Private

By Maya Wilson-Sanchez For almost nine months now, I’ve had the wonderful experience of working, writing, researching, and creating alongside a class of dedicated and talented undergraduate and graduate students at OCAD University as well as our instructors, and curators and staff at the ROM. It

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

Mystery of conical fossils solved, after 175 years

Mystery of conical fossils solved, after 175 years

My name is Joe Moysiuk, I am a 20-year-old undergraduate student at the University of Toronto enrolled in both the departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences. I am excited to announce that a research paper which I am lead author of, titled Hyoliths are Palaeozoic

Make Plastic Reduction Part of Your 2018 New Year's Resolutions

Make Plastic Reduction Part of Your 2018 New Year's Resolutions

Guest blog written by 2017 Environmental Visual Communication student Cristina Bergman Every year, 10,000 tonnes of plastic enters the Great Lakes. Imagine 55 jumbo jets of plastic crash landing in the lakes each year. In this province alone, 3 billion plastic bottles are sold annually, but only

Palaeontologists solve mystery of 500 million-year-old squid-like carnivore

Palaeontologists solve mystery of 500 million-year-old squid-like carnivore

A study by Martin Smith of the University of Toronto and Jean-Bernard Caron of the Royal Ontario Museum sheds new light on a previously unclassifiable 500 million-year-old squid-like carnivore known as Nectocaris pteryx. The new interpretation became possible with the discovery of 91 new fossils