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Dimitrios Mastoras

Dimitrios Mastoras

  Meet YPC Committee Member Dimitrios Mastoras What is your occupation? I work for BMO Global Asset Management educating and coaching financial advisors on how to best grow their practice and help their clients achieve what’s important to them. What was the last book you read? Flash Boys by

A Man with a (Retirement) Plan

A Man with a (Retirement) Plan

An afternoon exploring a favourite gallery, a long lunch at the café, a stroll through Philosopher’s Walk – these are some of the things Swee Goh and his late wife, Lilian, enjoyed most about ROM. Upon retiring to Toronto, they lived across the street from the Museum and decided to get to know

National Volunteer Week | Volunteers cataloguing backyard biodiversity

National Volunteer Week | Volunteers cataloguing backyard biodiversity

Volunteers at the Royal Ontario Museum are an integral element throughout our galleries and supporting a wide variety of our public programs throughout the year, including holiday programming, ROMKids camps, Sleepovers, and more! But this National Volunteer Week, we also want to recognize, and

BioBlitz Bits- A Tale of Two Bugs

BioBlitz Bits- A Tale of Two Bugs

Blog by ROM Entomology Technician Antonia Guidotti This is the third installment of our "BioBlitz Bits" Series- ROM scientists share their favourite stories from past Ontario BioBlitz events WIth so many species of insects around the world, it’s incredible how many you can find so close

Fashion Crime Stoppers

Fashion Crime Stoppers

On April 10 th a distinguished panel of fashion industry insiders will converge upon the Royal Ontario Museum for a debate on some of fashion’s most controversial issues including megabrands, globalism, fast fashion, the pressures of the fashion industry, the business of fashion and what it means

Rouge Park Bioblitz

Submitted by Brennan Caverhill, Biodiversity Intern Starting on Friday June 15 at 3pm sharp, experts and volunteers in biology and natural history will converge at Rouge Park for a 24hr “Bioblitz” to document all living things found within Park borders. Over 150 experts and avid naturalists

Ultimate Dinos Sneak Peek: El Chocon

March 25,2012 Today we went to the area around the town of El Chocon, where numerous fossils have been found. First we visited the Museo Ernesto Bachmann, where the original fossil skeleton of Giganotosaurus is housed and on display. This is THE most complete giant carnivorous dinosaur skeleton

Free Main Floor 2024

Free Main Floor is back! July 2- September 2, 2024  7 days a week (including Mondays), no advance ticket required.    Free Main Floor returns on July 2 with live performances, educational activities for kids, and access to ROM’s expansive first floor—all for free!* Plus, returning this

Photographer thoughts: A conversation with Mark Peck

Photographer thoughts: A conversation with Mark Peck

Guest Blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Fatima Ali In a recent CBC interview Mark Peck, the Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) very own ornithologist and devoted baseball fan, said, “If the baseball team plays with as much heart as the birds show in everyday life, we'll

When Friends come to visit...

elp develop and deliver popular public programs, including Identification Clinics, Family Weekends, March Break and Friday Night Live activities, and ROM Walks. Over the remarkable ROM Revealed weekend in May 2014, they helped guide thousands of visitors through the fossil collections, and in