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@janetcarding Tweeting from the Top
This article was originally published on UNMUSEUM on September 27, 2011. You can follow Janet on Twitter @janetcarding . 2011 has been my first real summer on Twitter. In fact I’ve had an account for a couple of years, but used it rather sporadically at conferences. After I arrived in
The Bee Contest Winner Visits the ROM!
I love sharing the cool secrets of the ROM with visitors, so it really made my day when our Name the Queen Bee Contest winner Kaitlyn visited the ROM with her mom and her brother Kynan (who also happened to be our third place winner). I got to show them around the Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-on
Sneak Peek of a Virtual Gallery Visit
By Brian Boyle, ROM Senior Photgrapher. In celebration of Dinomania! this weekend, we wanted to share details about a new technique we are experimenting with in the photo studio. Recently, I began to explore how the ROM could use emerging technologies to provide virtual tours of our
Burton and Isabelle Pipistrelle are out of the Bat Cave and on Book Shelves!
Imagine you were a Pipistrelle Bat living in the ROM’s bat cave and one night, when all the lights went out, you snuck out of the cave to explore the wonderful galleries of the Museum. What would you want to see? Where would you go first? Need a little help boosting your imagination? Check out
The Butterflies of Toronto
To educate and foster appreciation for these much-loved colourful insects, the City of Toronto , in partnership with the ROM and Livegreen Toronto , has published a new book, Butterflies of Toronto: A Guide to their Remarkable World. With hundreds of full-colour photographs, this new publication
How Do I Identify a Space Rock?
Originally published in ROM Magazine , Fall 2010. I found a blackened rock that I think might be a meteorite. How can I tell for sure? It is widely held that a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of meteorites or more often meteor-wrongs—the all-too-terrestrial objects that are
Update from Dawn’s Exploration of Vesta
Embedded video from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology The Dawn mission is providing us with some of the most detailed images of any asteroidal body to date. Before Dawn’s arrival at Vesta the best images available were fuzzy, computer-enhanced shots taken
National Philanthropy Day
Special thank you to our volunteers, donors, patrons and supporters On November 15, 2012, we celebrated National Philanthropy Day , a special day to recognize and pay tribute to the many contributions that philanthropy—and the great leaders in our philanthropic community—have made in
Yellowjackets (a.k.a. Late Summer Picnic Pests)
We love picnicking outside in the summer but in August and September our meals are inevitably cut short because of wasps. What are they and what can we do about them? Yellowjackets - much worse than ants at a picnic! There are a few species of these social wasps in Ontario, but most common are
Experience a Taste of Life during Medieval Times
Rob Mason , is an archaeological scientist whose research interests include art, technology, trade, and industry from the beginnings of time to the industrial revolution. But you may recognize him as a dancing knight from our Medieval Dancing presentations! Don’t miss the ROM’s Medieval Fall