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Minding the Stores

Minding the Stores

Guest blog by Lance McMillan The ROM’s extensive collections are lovingly watched over by an expert team of dedicated curators and technicians. With approximately 60,000 artifacts in the Royal Ontario Museum’s East Asian collection, managing this volume of items can be a daunting task.

Empty Skies: Resurrecting the Passenger Pigeon Backdrop

Empty Skies: Resurrecting the Passenger Pigeon Backdrop

Special thanks to ROM Ornithology technician Mark Peck A long time ago, in a ROM gallery quite different from today’s, there was a diorama that showcased a migrating flock of passenger pigeons. It gave the viewer a sense of what it might have looked like as they travelled in their vast groups

Biodiversity: It's in Our Nature Announcement

On Monday afternoon, on behalf of the ROM, Janet Carding was pleased to welcome The Honourable Michael Gravelle, Minister of Natural Resources, for the announcement of Biodiversity: It's in Our Nature, the Ontario government’s new biodiversity plan. In addition to various government

Museum Monday with Melissa- July 20, 2015

Museum Monday with Melissa- July 20, 2015

What an exciting time for the ROM. This week there is so much to see and do. With the beautiful weather we are able to enjoy it is a great time to get out and visit the Royal Ontario Museum.   Nothing could be more exciting than a new dinosaur discovery. In just the last few days, a recent

Tours- August 9.24

Tours in English 11 am            Museum Highlights 12 pm           Ancient Egypt & Nubia 1 pm             Museum Highlights 2 pm            China 3 pm            Museum Highlights Visites guidées en français 14 h              Les trésors du musée

Better than Saturday morning cartoons

Better than Saturday morning cartoons

One-year-old Peter likes looking at the paper with his parents on Saturday mornings (or better yet, ripping it apart, says his dad). This past weekend he went straight for the latest copy of Let’s ROM and started flipping through it with a look of intense concentration on his face. The ROM’s

Friends of the Canadian Collections

If you like bats and beavers, birds and black flies, flowers and fungi, kayaks and canoes, moccasins and mukluks, armoires and armchairs, whales and watercolours.....you will feel right at home being a Friend of the Canadian Collections. Our mandate is to increase awareness of the richness of

#ThrowbackThursday: Big Labels for Old Drafts

In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition  Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo ‘Burnham and Burnham’, aka

#ThrowbackThursday: The Opening

In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition  Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo 'Burnham and Burnham’, aka

La Société Currelly

En reconnaissance de vos promesses de dons, nous vous invitons à devenir membres de la Société Charles Trick et Ada Mary Currelly. Nommée d’après le premier directeur du Musée royal de l’Ontario et sa femme, la Société Currelly propose des conférences et des dîners avec les