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Taking care of meteorites
Brendt C. Hyde, Mineralogy Technician will be presenting at the upcoming ROM Research Colloquium – join us on February 3 at 4:30pm in the Signy & Cléophée Eaton Theatre to hear more about The Study of Meteorites – Science versus Conservation. What are you going to talk about at the
Mobile Interpretation in Museums
Learn about the latest research and discoveries happening at the ROM and mark your calendars for the 33rd annual ROM Research Colloquium coming up on February 3, 2012. Ryan Dodge is the Acquisitions Technician in the Library as well an active member of the ROM’s Social Media team. Here, he tells
Russian Space Probe will Crash to Earth this Week!
Contributed by Brendt C. Hyde and Ian Nicklin. The Russian space probe Phobos-Grunt was all set to journey to a moon of Mars called Phobos. It was going to collect samples from the moon and return them to Earth. Unfortunately, the mission ended before it could even begin. The probe was launched in
NASA’s Continued Curiosity for Life on Mars
By Brent Hyde, Minerology Technician Did life ever exist on the red planet? This is a question NASA has been trying to answer for more than 40 years. In the next couple of years, NASA hopes to get some answers. In late November of this year, NASA will be launching its latest and greatest rover to
Wallis Simpson’s Brilliant Jewellery
Submitted by Danura Buczynski and Elsa McKay, Department of Museum Volunteers. Who was Wallis Simpson? The American socialite Wallis Warfield Simpson, a.k.a. the Duchess of Windsor is one of the most intriguing figures of the 20th century. With two divorced husbands still living, Bessie Wallis
Contest: How much do you know about the War of 1812?
Submitted by Liz Muir, volunteer with the Friends of Canadian Collections (FCC). Almost 200 years ago, war broke out between the United States and Canada, which was still part of the British Empire at the time. That conflict became know as the War of 1812. When James Madison, 4 th President of the
Sneak Peek: Recreating Ancient Mayan Architectural Facades
Here at the ROM, a project team is hard at work bringing Maya: Secrets of their Ancient World to life. The exhibition opens November 19, but ROM staff have been immersed in the project for well over a year! Emilio Genovese, ROM Exhibit Designer, is a key member of the project team. Today he is
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
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
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