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National Volunteer Week 2018: Sharon Aitken
Name: Sharon Aitken, a retired teacher and dental hygienist, started volunteering approximately 3 years ago. What inspired you to volunteer at the ROM? Sharon: I have wanted to be a volunteer at the ROM for many years. I love learning new things, meeting and working with people and I love
National Volunteer Week 2018: Lynne Wood
Name: Lynne Wood taught high school for 38 years and started volunteering at the ROM in the Spring of 2016. What inspired you to volunteer at the ROM? Lynne: Volunteering at the ROM is a wonderful opportunity to continue to learn, teach and work with people of all ages. What is your role of
Minecraft and Museums together at the ROM
For over a year, the Learning Department has been hard at work on the development of a new approach to museum virtual visits: building an online experience using an adventure map in Minecraft to teach elementary students about Responsible Mining. We’re excited to announce that we have reached
The Healing Power of Dinosaurs: A look at Dinosaur Day at The Hospital for Sick Children
Written by Min Wong, Outreach Volunteer, Member of Friends of Palaeontology Anyone who has listened to an eight year old excitedly describe how a Velociraptor walked on two hind feet and had a huge claw on each foot knows the fascination that children have with dinosaurs. Such was the experience we
“Origins of Chintz,” The Exhibit: A Look Back to 1970
“Chintz… the exotic fabric from India that caught Europe’s fancy… So popular it was banned in England and France… Revolutionized Europe’s textile printing industry.” Thus exclaimed the brochure that accompanied the ROM’s landmark exhibition, ‘The Origins of Chintz’, which opened
Eight-legged and Adorable
Guest blog written by 2018 Environmental Visual Communication student Mya Van Woudenberg. Let me paint you a picture of a spectacular critter. Staring up at you is an adorable little animal precious enough that it could fit in your hand. You carefully pick him up, and his tiny feet tickle your
Totally Buggin’: Spiders and Insects in Pop Culture
Guest blog written by 2018 Environmental Visual Communication student Michael Berger. Dr. Susan Tyler paces the empty subway platform, lit by flickering fluorescents, anxiously waiting for her husband’s return from the perilous depths of the underground. Out of the corner of her eye she
An Innovative Approach to A Puzzling Problem
Conserving an Indian Chintz Cope made in the Eighteenth Century for the Armenian Church Here in the Textile Conservation department of the ROM, Senior Textile Conservator Chris Paulocik and I have begun preparing objects for display in the upcoming exhibition: “The Cloth that Changed the World:
Introducing Zuul, Destroyer of Shins, Generator of Science
Today, the ROM unveiled a new species of armored dinosaur, Zuul crurivastator, based on an almost complete and remarkably well-preserved skeleton from the Judith River Formation of Montana. The skeleton of Zuul was acquired by the ROM with the generous support of the Louise Hawley Stone Trust, and
Ben & Bruno’s Excellent Trilobite Adventure
Curatorial staff in attendance at the ROM’s popular bimonthly Rock, Gem, Mineral, Fossil, and Meteorite Identification Clinics are routinely treated to a fascinating array of objects brought in by an equally fascinating cross-section of our museum visitors. From very junior geologists clutching