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Meteorite of the month: martian meteorite NWA 5298

By Brendt C. Hyde, ROM Mineralogy Technician Meteorites can come from a variety of locations.  Most often we think of them as pieces of rock ejected off of asteroids during big collisions in space.  However, these collisions also happen on the planets and moons in our solar system.  The Earth

Old Collection, New Research

Dr. Chen Shen, Vice President, Senior Curator, Bishop White Chair of East Asian Archaeology at the ROM gives a preview of his presentation, Peking Man Revisited: A Who’s Who of Human Evolution at the upcoming ROM Research Colloquium this Friday, February 3 in the Signy and Cléophée Eaton

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

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

Update from Dawn’s Exploration of Vesta

Embedded video from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology The Dawn mission is providing us with some of the most detailed images of any asteroidal body to date. Before Dawn’s arrival at Vesta the best images available were fuzzy, computer-enhanced shots taken by the

Five Questions for Hina P. Ansari

Hina P. Ansari’s relationship with Bollywood goes way back to the burgeoning of the industry. Her grandfather was a multi-faceted filmmaker known as one of the leading and first film noir directors of the Mumbai-based industry. She has made a name for herself in the fashion and entertainment

Summerasaurus Part II: A Day in the Quarry

Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the badlands of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs. Join us over the course of the next month as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing