Inspiring Stories
As Presenting Sponsor of The Forbidden City, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation continues its dedication to promoting Chinese arts and culture and advancing cross-cultural understanding between China and the world.
The ROM was pleased to host Barrick Gold Corporation employees and their families on Sunday, February 23, 2014. This special day celebrated the recent opening of the new Barrick Gold Corporation Gallery.
It’s not everyday a new dinosaur species is discovered, and it’s even more exciting when it is named in honour of long-time ROM supporters. Dr. David Evans and a team of scientists have named a small, meat-eating dinosaur (‘raptor’) based on newly unearthed fossils from Montana, USA.
Dr. Maureen Trudeau and her family tell us about hiking up an ancient fossil bed, holding 500-million-year old fossils in their hands, and their generous support of the ROM's future Dawn of Life on Earth Gallery.
Like most young people, June found it easy to put off thinking about will and estate planning with her demanding schedule. This amazing young mother talks about her decision to include the ROM in her will.
“This exhibition illustrates the incredible developments of an ancient world, revealing how it is still timely and relevant to our modern-day lives,” says Mohammad Al Zaibak.
Leading home, auto and business insurer RSA Insurance is partnering with the ROM to present Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World—the ROM’s summer blockbuster exhibition.
Hundreds of ROM supporters gathered at the Museum on May 8, 2013 for the annual Chairs’ Reception, which celebrates philanthropy at the Museum.
ROM Governor Alf Wirth has visited hundreds of museums. We caught up with him in the Wirth Gallery of the Middle East—one of many ROM initiatives he has generously supported.
“Coming to the ROM was the best part of my childhood,” says Tom Hilditch. Like many kids in Ontario, he was a member of the Saturday Morning Club for years.