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Building Blocks of the ROM

Submitted by Vincent Vertolli , Assistant Curator Geology Opened in 1933, the addition facing Queen's Park features materials found in Ontario quarries. The Rotunda part of the familiar west wing of the ROM facing Queen’s Park Drive was, for many years, the main Entrance Hall.

Celts weren’t just about Weaponry…they liked to have fun too!

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

Chocolate – The Food of the Gods

Photo courtesy of ChocoSol Traders. Following up on our last blog – not all chocolate is the bitter kind born of child labour and greedy corporations. ChocoSol Traders is a small, ecological and inter-community initiative between farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, sustainable technologists

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

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

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

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

Did End-of-World Prophesiers have too much Time on their Hands?

Submitted by Conrad Biernacki, ROM Programs Manager Last Friday, a keen and curious crowd of 75 people attended the ROM’s monthly Connecting: Mix Mingle Think event for a talk by the Museum’s ancient world expert Gayle Gibson called The Long Goodbye: Apocalypse 2012? ROM Ancient