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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

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

Yellowjackets (a.k.a. Late Summer Picnic Pests)

We love picnicking outside in the summer but in August and September our meals are inevitably cut short because of wasps. What are they and what can we do about them? Yellowjackets - much worse than ants at a picnic! There are a few species of these social wasps in Ontario, but most common are

Space junk: what goes up …

The ability to place man-made devices – satellites – in orbit around our planet has revolutionized the ways in which we communicate and allowed us to study our planet, our solar system and our universe in ways not otherwise possible. In fact, satillites are so useful that there is a growing