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BREAKING: Royal Ontario Museum to recover two rare Northwest Atlantic blue whales

BREAKING: Royal Ontario Museum to recover two rare Northwest Atlantic blue whales

ROM Biodiversity will send a crew to salvage two blue whales that washed ashore on the coast of Newfoundland last week. These unfortunate deaths due to unusual ice formations in the ocean are an unprecedented opportunity to study one of the more endangered species of marine mammals. We have only

Luke Anderson

Luke Anderson is a licensed professional structural engineer at a leading engineering firm in Toronto and co-founder of StopGap Foundation, which raises awareness about barriers in our built environment that prevent many people from enjoying the spaces that they desire.    Luke graduated from

Tattoos: Japan

Tattoos: Japan

Guest blog by Asato Ikeda, Curator (Bishop White Postdoctoral Fellow of Japanese Art). In the minds of average Japanese people today, tattoos have a strong association with criminality, especially with the yakuza, or Japanese mafia. This is why individuals with tattoos are prohibited from entering

Igniting Children's Potential at the ROM

Igniting Children's Potential at the ROM

Celebrating Our School Visits Bursary Partners  Established in 2005, the School Visits Bursary Program expands opportunities for more students to ignite their potential at the Museum. To date, the program has enabled more than 154,000 student visits—including 19,649 visits for the 2015–16

Meet the Ultimate Dino Team: Matthew Vavrek

Bringing an exhibition to life takes a whole team – especially an exhibition the size and scale of Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants of Gondwana. To help get this ultimate exhibition up and running the ROM brought it contract curator Matthew Vavrek. We visited Matthew in the palaeo labs, where he

Two thumbs up to outstanding documentaries!

Can’t make it to the ROM? Make some popcorn, pick up one of these award-winning documentaries related to our current exhibitions and upcoming programs, and have a movie date with the ROM in your own livingroom! Touched by Water, a documentary by Tamás Wormser, examines bathing rituals and our

How Drone Photography is Saving Wildlife

How Drone Photography is Saving Wildlife

Guest Blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Lisa Milosavljevic In the past few years, drone photography has provided us with more images from the skies than ever before. These Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are aircrafts that do not have a human

5 reasons to be excited for BioBlitz Canada 150 in Rouge National Urban Park

5 reasons to be excited for BioBlitz Canada 150 in Rouge National Urban Park

Guest blog by Omar McDadi, External Relations Manager, Parks Canada, Rouge National Urban Park Parks Canada is thrilled to host one of several BioBlitz Canada 150 events taking place across Canada on June 24th and 25th in Rouge National Urban Park – one of several signature Canada 150 events of

Chinese Coins

Chinese Coins

The ROM is one of few museums in the world with a collection of comprehensive Chinese coins. The collection was researched to create a numismatic timeline for the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China. The display of 88 coins includes the best examples from the 3rd century BC to the end of the

ROMWalks: Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you!

Every time you turn a corner in Toronto, you discover another venerable stone building resplendent with arches, turrets, gables, or statues perched in a niche. Some are nestled between the encroaching skyscrapers of the banking district, others sit proudly on their original estate. The heritage