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Behind the Scenes: What the ROM is Doing this Afternoon

Behind the Scenes: What the ROM is Doing this Afternoon

By Deirdre Leowinata (B.Sc. Biology and EVC student) When you think of someone who works in a museum, the first (and possibly the only) thing that comes to mind is a curator. Maybe a security guard, maybe a tour guide, but usually it’s not much more than that. Little you may know, museums are

Ultimate Dinos Sneak Peek: Dinos in the Big City

We returned from the field in Patagonia to the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. At about 13 million people in the metro area, BA is the largest city in the country, and third largest in modern Gondwana (behind Sao Paulo and Cairo). There are dinosaurs in Buenos Aires, but only in museums, as the

Museum Monday with Melissa

Museum Monday with Melissa

With summer ending soon, it is something you’ll want to cherish before it is gone.  There is still much to warm up with at the Royal Ontario Museum this week.    Take a ROM walk through Cabbagetown North this Wednesday. Just look for the purple ROMwalks Umbrella at the Northeast corner of

Eric Huang

Eric Huang

Meet YPC Member Eric Huang What is your occupation? I'm the Founder and Executive Director of Advanced Analytics and Research Lab Inc., an analytics consulting an education company. What was the last book you read? Last book I read was Ulysses, currently reading The Fountainhead. If you could

Purr-fect Predators: Lessons from the Feline Fossil Record

Purr-fect Predators: Lessons from the Feline Fossil Record

Note: Workshop is for an Adult Audience. This workshop is for participants ages 18+. Purr-fect Predators: Lessons from the Feline Fossil Record     Saturday, June 22, 2024, 1:00 pm- 4:30 pm  Cats are some of the fiercest predators alive today, but their extinct relatives would have been even

Storytelling: Art, Culture, Nature

Storytelling: Art, Culture, Nature

Guest blog by Environmental Visual Communication graduate Samantha Stephens Art, Culture, Nature. They may be separate words, but if we consider them separate disciplines, we are doing a disservice to the potential of human wisdom. Without nature, there is no culture. Without culture, there is no

iPad Drawing Class with Jerrem Lynch

What do you get when you mix an Australian graffiti artist, a high school student, two art therapists, a pub owner and a radio show host at the ROM on a Thursday night? The ICC’s iPad Drawing Class! Twenty-five people from all walks of life and age groups signed up for an evening workshop – and

A Great Ship's Bell Tolls Again

A Great Ship's Bell Tolls Again

On September 7, 2014, one of Canada’s greatest mysteries was solved when the 2014 Victoria Strait Expedition team discovered Her Majesty’s Ship Erebus off the coast of Nunavut. After more than 160 years of searching to understand the fate of English explorer Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated

The Essential 10

The Essential 10

  Meet YPC Member Edmund Chien What is your occupation? Sales consultant and conference speaker. What was the last book you read? Great By Choice by Jim Collins. (I’m going through some classics right now). If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Sir Robert Ludwig Mond

« Rendez-vous indispensable », telle était la devise de sir Robert Ludwig Mond, chimiste, entrepreneur et archéologue. Fils d’un chimiste de renom, Robert Mond était chercheur dans l’entreprise de son père, un chimiste de renom, qui fusionne avec Imperial Chemical Industries en 1926. Au