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The Making of Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana

Contributed by Peter May, President, Research Casting International Ltd. We held a press preview day at our shop last week to launch the ROM’s major summer exhibition – Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana. Of the 17 dinosaur skeletons to be exhibited, ten are pretty well finished; just

Celtic Fun Weekend: Themed Pancakes, Warrior Paint, and Dancing

In my role at the ROM I see all sorts of families. Large. Small. New to the museum. Regulars to the museum.  Everyone! And it doesn’t matter where you fit on this large line of families, because there’s always something for you to explore and to have fun with!  Today I want to talk about one

Celts, Bronze Age weapons, and the ROM's Celtic Family Weekend

Here Kay Sunahara of the ROM's Department of World Cultures places a rare shield from the Middle Bronze Age on its mount. As a part of the Family Weekends at the ROM we will be putting out some treasures from the vaults, objects for which we presently do not have in the gallery. For the Celtic

Growing Collections: East Asian and South Asian Photography

Photograph of educated man in his study by W. H. Grant, gelatin silver print, China, c. 1900. ROM 2011.79.20. Gift in memory of Rev. Dr. William Harvey Grant and Dr. Susannah McCalla Grant, M. D. View of Benares Ghat (temples on the banks of the Ganges River in present-day Vadodara), by S. H. Dagg,

A Tale of Two Cities

Dr. Helen R. Haines has discovered many things in her years of digging, measuring and mapping the remnants of the ancient Maya culture. However, it would be a mistake to assume that what she uncovers relates only to peoples of the distant past. Sometimes, what we learn about them reveals equally as

Meteorite of the month: martian meteorite NWA 5298

By Brendt C. Hyde, ROM Mineralogy Technician Meteorites can come from a variety of locations.  Most often we think of them as pieces of rock ejected off of asteroids during big collisions in space.  However, these collisions also happen on the planets and moons in our solar system.  The Earth

Justin Jennings and ROMtravel visit a hacienda in Mexico

Submitted by  Justin Jennings, Curator, Department of World Cultures.  Follow his Maya adventures with ROMTravel. Today, we took a break from the world of the Pre-Hispanic Maya, and took a trip to a hacienda  that has been painstakingly assembled as it would have stood at the beginning of the

Justin Jennings leads ROMtravellers through 2,000 years of Maya history

Submitted by  Justin Jennings, Curator, Department of World Cultures.  Follow his Maya adventures with ROMTravel. As our bus travels through Mexico, it feels as if we are touring through 2,000 years of history.  Today, our bus started out in Campeche, a city fortified against English pirates

ROM Curator Justin Jennings writes from ROMtravel trip to Maya lands.

Submitted by  Justin Jennings, Curator, Department of World Cultures.  Follow his Maya adventures  with ROMTravel. Tikal was one of the most important sites of the Classic Maya – one of the two superpowers of the Maya world that used its political, economic, and ritual might to hold sway over

Curator Justin Jennings fills us in on ROMtravel Maya journey

Submitted by  Justin Jennings, Curator, Department of World Cultures.  Follow his Maya adventures  with ROMTravel. Chichicastenango  - a mouthful for the non Maya speaker, but one of the most beautiful towns in the highlands of Guatemala. Church of Santo Tomás The ROM's Maya tour was just