ROM magazine
Feature Articles
Since late 2007, selected articles from ROM magazine have been made available online. These archives showcase intriguing artifacts and specimens from the ROM’s extensive collections and reveal insights into the international research work of our curators.
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Winter 2011 Aliens Among Us Portals to Paradise: Reflections at the Maya Ruins People of the Corn Wild in Toronto |
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Fall 2011 Watching Angels: These piscatorial prizes of many a living-room were graced with good looks by intricate evolutionary processes in their homeland Even for those who have never owned an aquarium, freshwater angelfish such as this Pterophyllum altum are among the most readily recognizable aquarium fishes.
The St. Clair Cave, a subterranean river grotto in southeast Jamaica, is home to half of the island's 20 bat species. The ROM's recently revamped Bat Cave is modelled on the Jamaican cavern, which is reproduced so accurately—replicated, it seems—that ROM visitors familiar with St. Clair quickly get their bearings. |
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Summer 2011 OUR CURATORS The Day Before Toronto: Managing the City’s Prehistory At the eastern edge of greater Toronto, the Rouge River winds through wetlands abundant with birdlife—herons and egrets, mallards and teals, wrens and bitterns, kingfishers and sandpipers—before finding Rouge Beach and Lake Ontario. BACKYARD BIODIVERSITY Another Day at the Office: Searching for Herpetological Species in the Jungles of Vietnam |
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Spring 2011 The History of T.O.'s H2O By Kim Tait, Associate Curator Mineralology, and Mary Burridge, Assistant Curator Ichthyology For more than two centuries, an abundant supply of fresh water has fuelled Toronto's growth and prosperity. The city's many waterways have offered pleasurable places for recreation and abundant sources of fresh food, but they've also been the source of outbreaks of cholera and typhoid fever. In many ways, Toronto's water has shaped the city we know today. Read More Discoveries, Dispatches, and Discourse Read More |
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Winter 2010 Direct from the New Director By Kelvin Browne First attracted to the ROM by the diversity of its collections, director and CEO Janet Carding is determined to encourage a lively culture of innovation at the Museum. Read More In the Wake of Kane By Glen Ellis For Kenneth Lister, the door to a ROM art storeroom would prove to be a portal to a world that would intrigue, enchant, and some might say obsess the intrepid ethnographer for decades to come. Read More |
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Fall 2010 Built For Speed By Nina Schaller With the aid of face-to-beak observation, a visiting ROM researcher uncovers the secrets of an exceedingly efficient marathon runner. Read More |
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Summer 2010 Renaissance Man By Kelvin Browne A museum-side chat with William Thorsell, who this summer steps down as director and CEO after a decade of ushering in an era of revitalization at the ROM. Read More |
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Spring 2010 Dior's Scandalous New Look By Alexandra Palmer When Christian Dior’s extravagantly feminine New Look burst upon the fashion-starved post-World War II scene, not everyone accepted it—French saleswomen literally tore the dresses apart, spawning numerous anti-New Look protests. A glimpse into the rise of—and shock waves caused by—a fashion icon. Read More |
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Winter 2009 Faking It By Paul Denis with Sara Irwin How forgery of art and collectibles has thrived since the days of Ancient Rome. Today even the world of fossils is not immune. Read More |
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Fall 2009 A Shot at Fame By Russell Smith How photography stoked the star-making machinery of celebrity. Read More |
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Summer 2009 Science of the Scrolls By Risa Levitt Kohn How far-reaching technologies help researchers unshroud the mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Read More |
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Spring 2009 The Plight of the Red Knot By Allan J. Baker How one of the most endangered migratory birds is shoring up against its imperilled global flyways. Read More |
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Winter 2008 To Conserve and Protect By Heidi Sobol A behind-the-scenes look at the skill and detective work that goes into conserving artworks. Read More |
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Fall 2008 Romancing the Stones By Kimberly Tait The ROM exhibition of Michael Scott’s collection, called Light and Stone, will feature among other things, a range of his emeralds from around the world, such as one from the famous Muzo mine in Columbia. How one man's passion for gems led to a collection that rivals those of royal families. Read More |
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Summer 2008 40 Influential Research Projects For 40 years, ROM magazine has been keeping readers up to date on the latest scientific breakthroughs and most current findings in archaeology and art history by ROM researchers. In celebration of the magazine’s 40th anniversary,we look at 40 of the Museum’s influential projects. Read More |
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Spring 2008 Specious Claims? By Radu Cornel Guias Conservation biologist Radu Guiasu looks beyond the alarming headlines to assess the true impact of “invasive” species. Barbarian invaders? Or just a case of species xenophobia? Read More |
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Winter 2007 Striking a New Pose By David Evans and Janet Waddington When they were first reconstructed in the late 1800s, dinosaurs were assumed to have looked like giant reptiles. Through the early half of the 20th century they were portrayed in 3-D skeleton mounts and in artists’ depictions either in a four-legged stance with their tails dragging on the ground like huge lizards or in awkward upright positions on their hind legs. Read More |
