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Member Preview- Quilts: Made in Canada
Exclusively for Members Enjoy an exclusive Member viewing of Quilts: Made in Canada on Friday, June 28, 2024, from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm. Welcome remarks by Arlene Gehmacher, L.R. Wilson Curator of Canadian Art & Culture, will take place at 11:00 am inside the exhibition on Level 3, Third Floor
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 mistaken
National Volunteer Week: ROMkids
The Royal Ontario Museum proudly joined the Nation in celebrating National Volunteer Week 2014. To wrap up this weeks commemoration of volunteers, we picked the brains of our ROMkids volunteers to learn more about what they do and why they do it. Our volunteers work tirelessly to give to the ROM
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
The Mammals Strike Back!
After our recent post about mouse-eating frogs, Burton Lim of the mammalogy department, one of the ROM’s bat experts, decided to fight back for the mammals. Behold Trachops cirrhosus, the frog-eating bat! Known as the Fringe-Lipped Bat, you’ll notice little bumps around its mouth, which were
Discovering the Roots of RasTafari
The Rastafari movement or Rasta as some call it, is a religious movement that arose in the 1930s in Jamaica. Members of the Rastafari movement are known as Rastas, or Rastafari. Rastafari is not a highly organized religion; it is more of a movement and an ideology. Many Rastas say that it is not
Friends of Textiles & Costume
The Friends of Textiles & Costume support the ROM’s spectacular collection of textile and fashion objects that tell stories, interweave cultures and societies, and record intimate histories, politics and ingenious innovation. We strive to deepen one’s understanding of the rich, world-wide
Gallery of Greece
Where Western culture begins. Ancient Greece is considered by many to be the birthplace of western culture. It was home to some of the greatest artists and thinkers of the western world including the historian Herodotus, the dramatist Euripides and the philosophers Socrates and Plato. Greek
Maayan Ziv
Maayan Ziv is a freelance photographer whose work focuses on black and white emotive portraiture, editorial fashion, and gritty street scenes. She studied Media at Ryerson University and her background in media communications, art and theatre influences her work. Born with Muscular Dystrophy,
National Volunteer Week 2017 | Department of Museum Volunteers celebrates its 60th anniversary
Blog Post by Vera Hall, President, Department of Museum Volunteers (DMV) DMV Members Volunteer Committee 25th Anniversary Party (May 1982) In 1957, when the Members’ Volunteer Committee was established, they had no idea that it would grow from its 12 original members to over 550 volunteers