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National Volunteer Week | Volunteers cataloguing backyard biodiversity

National Volunteer Week | Volunteers cataloguing backyard biodiversity

Volunteers at the Royal Ontario Museum are an integral element throughout our galleries and supporting a wide variety of our public programs throughout the year, including holiday programming, ROMKids camps, Sleepovers, and more! But this National Volunteer Week, we also want to recognize, and

National Volunteer Week | Volunteer Spotlight: Rebecca Beayni

National Volunteer Week | Volunteer Spotlight: Rebecca Beayni

How can a museum volunteer change the way we view the world? This National Volunteer Week, we invite you to meet Rebecca Beayni, a volunteer in the Hands-on Biodiversity & Discovery Galleries, who was recognized for her contribution to the museum at the 2014 Ontario Volunteer Service Awards. We

National Volunteer Week: Thank You, ROM Volunteers!

This week marks National Volunteer Week, an annual event that recognizes and celebrates the important contributions that volunteers make each day in Canada and around the globe. Volunteer Canada says volunteer action is like a stone thrown in a lake: its effects have both a direct impact and

Museum Monday with Melissa- April 13, 2015

Museum Monday with Melissa- April 13, 2015

Hope you got your tickets for the ROM Sleepover: Nature this Friday! Be able to tell all your friends that you spent a night at the Museum. Families will love travelling the world and visiting ecosystems all while enjoying the sights and sounds of nature. Though sold out, you can definitely give

Blue Whale Update

Blue Whale Update

Blue Whale Update   Last spring, a team from the ROM, including deputy director, Mark Engstrom, and assistant curator, Burton Lim, helped salvage one of two blue whales that had died in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ice pack and washed ashore on the west coast of Newfoundland. This recovery project

Getting Lost with Galloway

Getting Lost with Galloway

We sat down with CBC's Matt Galloway to find out exactly what keeps bringing him back to the ROM By: Douglas Thomson Q: Do you visit the museum often?  A: Yes, I have a couple of young kids. We come on a fairly regular basis. Sometimes if there’s a special event, but also sometimes we come

Sasha Priewe: Ancient Cultures, World Art, Textiles and Fashions

Sasha Priewe: Ancient Cultures, World Art, Textiles and Fashions

The ROM's Sascha Priewe is a guy with a lot on the go By: Sheeza Sarfraz Sascha Priewe Managing Director ROM Ancient Cultures, ROM World Art and Culture, ROM Textiles and Fashions  Academic Positions 2009 – 2015 Curator Chinese and Korean Collections, The British Museum 2012  Visiting

Earth's Archives: Every Rock Tells a Story Part 1

Earth's Archives: Every Rock Tells a Story Part 1

Hermatite By: Ian Nicklin Hematite is a common ore of iron that was extensively mined in northern England in the 19th century. The miners referrred to globular aggregates of hematite, such as this, as "kidney-ore" since it reminded them of the organ. We call this shape

Pompeii Saga: Last Day

Pompeii Saga: Last Day

The horrors of the Mount Vesuvius eruption were buried under volcanic ash. Thankfully one scholarly young man wrote the story of his own survival. By: Douglas Thomson       On the day  Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it spewed ash and pumice kilometres into the atmosphere. Small hail-sized pebbles

Sharing the Kirwin Collection with the World

Sharing the Kirwin Collection with the World

The ROM is grateful to BMO Financial Group for an extraordinary $1M gift in support of the Kirwin Collection initiative. This generous investment in ROM Earth & Space will help the ROM catalogue, digitize, store and share this remarkable collection with the public. “BMO Financial Group is