Royal Ontario Museum Blog
Monthly Archive: December
Invertebrate Life in the Ocean: Curator’s Corner
Hello, I’m Claire Healy, Associate Curator of Invertebrate Zoology here at the ROM. It’s almost that time again – Curator’s Corner is gearing up to bring you another opportunity to meet a curator (me!) and learn a bit more about the animals here at the museum, and the delightful organisms that I study.
Meet the Ultimate Dino Team: Richard Lahey
Many Eyes Make Light Work: ROM Field Botany
Submitted by David Baxter
As student staff in the ROM Botany Section, my summer work has mostly involved sitting in a basement office updating the plant specimen database, and occasionally working with the herbarium specimens themselves. This last week, however, I’ve been in Montana and Washington searching for Crataegus (hawthorn) trees. Quite a change of pace!
Meet the Ultimate Dino Team: Matthew Vavrek
Meet the Ultimate Dino Team: David Evans
The first Church at York and the War of 1812
Written by Paul Vaculik, ROMwalks volunteer
Image courtesy of St James Cathedral.
Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project 2012
Fig. 1. Camp after a rainstorm.
What can Museums learn from nonprofit leadership?
Suse Cairns originally published this blog on Museum Geek. Suse is a PhD candidate at The University of Newcastle, Australia, investigating what networked knowledge means for museums in an age of ubiquitous information.
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Project Guyana – Expedition Update
Hello, this is Stacey Kerr, an Environmental Visual Communication student at the ROM. “Curator’s Corner: Project Guyana” was a huge success this past weekend, showcasing some of the work done by ROM curators on the biodiversity of Guyana.
ROM Walk: Sculpture and the City
By Valerie Fairclough, ROMwalks volunteer
