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Weeks 2 & 3 of #ROMmeme

Weeks 2 & 3 of #ROMmeme

We are absolutely LOVING all the memes you guys are sending in for #ROMmeme. It's a beautiful mixture of pop culture references, natural history and ancient world cultures. The perfect trifecta, really. Here's a selection from the last two weeks featuring many a reference to Mean Girls

#ROMSriLanka Kicks off Month-long Expedition

#ROMSriLanka Kicks off Month-long Expedition

Guest blog written by #ROMSriLanka Communication team member Deirdre Leowinata If the words “adventure”, “exploration”, and “travel” come to mind when you hear the word “science”, then you watch a lot of David Attenborough, you’re a shark week fanatic, you’re a field biologist,

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

August Rock, Gem, Mineral, Fossil, and Meteorite ID Clinic

August Rock, Gem, Mineral, Fossil, and Meteorite ID Clinic

The ROM's August ID clinic had a steady flow of visitors up to the museum closing at 5:30pm.   Overall, we had 93 specimens identified and 35 people attend our ID clinic to have their treasures identified. We had 18 meteor-wrongs, 18 gems and 57 fossils come through our doors. The Fossil team

#emptyROM- Jamaal Merrick

On August 19th we welcomed 10 lucky people for our first #emptyROM tour. The concept is not new, but new to Toronto. One of the photogrpahers that took part was Jamaal Merrick, better known as @jamaalism on Twitter and Instagram. Jamaal sent us five of his photos from the tour, we'll let them

Erasing History: Ancient Artifacts Destroyed

Erasing History: Ancient Artifacts Destroyed

By Clemens Reichel, Sascha Priewe, and Sheeza Sarfraz It has become a cliché to say that “history is written by the victors,” but rarely does one note that it is not only written, but edited as well. Just as governments massage facts for the evening news and tightly control who speaks with

#iamascientist

Behind the scenes at the ROM, there is an army of scientists- curators, technicians, students, and educators, who all help to bring the museum and its collections to life. For Science Literacy Week (Sept. 21-27, 2015), we are highlighting some of these scientists and their work in a series of short