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Les Presses du ROM Les Presses du ROM constituent une petite maison d’édition couronnée de nombreux prix, qui porte sur le Musée, son histoire, ses collections, ses travaux de recherche, ses conférences et ses expositions. Publiant des textes spécialisés ou d’intérêt général (surtout

Grandson visits ROM specimens named after his grandfather

Grandson visits ROM specimens named after his grandfather

Recently we had a visit from Neal and Bonnie Finn of Edmonton, Alberta. They came to the ROM on a kind of pilgrimage, to see some fossil specimens that were named after Neal’s grandfather back in 1925. Neal became aware of these specimens when he was “digging” into his family’s genealogical

Damien’s Wish: A Day as a Palaeontologist

Damien’s Wish: A Day as a Palaeontologist

If you could wish for anything what would it be? As hard as a decision as this is to make for most of us, for young Damien, age 12, it was a no-brainer. This week the ROM and Make-A-Wish Canada teamed up to help grant Damien—who has been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia—his wish to

Rapports et politiques

Le Musée royal de l’Ontario (ROM) est un organisme du ministère de la Culture de l’Ontario. Le Conseil d’administration est responsable de la gestion du Musée, il est doté de pouvoirs qui lui sont conférés par l’Assemblée législative conformément à la Loi sur le Musée royal de

Weapon Wednesday: a Romano-Egyptian sword hilt

Weapon Wednesday: a Romano-Egyptian sword hilt

This object (910.175.328) is actually a part of a weapon, but a very important one, acquired before 1910 in Cairo by Charles Currelly and presently in the Eaton Gallery of Rome. It is the cast bronze hilt of a sword. It depicts a bird's head, which is actually the Horus falcon, as it has the

Weapon Wednesday: the "djanbīyya" dagger

Weapon Wednesday: the "djanbīyya" dagger

The Middle Eastern two-edged curved dagger is one of the most recognizable weapon forms. Typically it is known by the Arab term djanb ī yya  sometimes Anglicised as "jambiya", or also often the Arabic term  khandjar, but these curved daggers are found across the Middle East. Curved

Weapon Wednesday

Weapon Wednesday

Weapons are one of the most politically-incorrect subjects there are, associated with brutality and violence. But they are also important, and have often defined the cultures that made them (perhaps because warriors dominated most past societies). When we talk about the Bronze Age or the Iron Age

Tips for toddlers visiting the ROM

Tips for toddlers visiting the ROM

Karla and her son Marshall run an internationally awarded blog, The [Tiny} Times (www.tinytimes.com), which humorously and visually documents life from a child's perspective. Karla writes a monthly travel column, Kids Concierge, for Qantas The Australian Way magazine and recently authored a

Fossil-finding Tour at Evergreen Brick Works

Fossil-finding Tour at Evergreen Brick Works

By Kevin Seymour Photos by I-Cheng Chen and Jasmine Lin Dr. A.P. Coleman, who later became the director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Geology, first drew attention to this site in 1894. More particularly, he drew attention to the amazing sediments preserved here. Over the next 40 years and through