August 2016
Monthly Archive: August 2016
Member Profile: Rapid Fire Questions With Ian Leaver
Ian Leaver is a 25-year-old ROM Member with autism who visits the Museum often, touring the exhibitions and spending time with other ROM visitors and staff. Ian's mother, Wendy, says that although Ian does not ask many questions due to his disability, his visits to the ROM have brought out a curiosity she has not seen in him before.
What inspired your first visit to the ROM?
I like Dinosaurs and my sister gave me a Membership.
How would you describe the ROM to a friend who had never visited the Museum before?
A Different Kind of Mezcal Worm: The Story of a Leech, a Manatee and Biodiversity Conservation
Blog by Roegan Vetro, ROM Biodiversity Gallery Facilitator
Profile: Canada's Astronaut
Chris Hadfield sits down with ROM Magazine and talks space, dinos, and risk.
ROM Collections Contribute to Checklist of Indian Birds
Museum collections are often undervalued and misunderstood. Regular visitors to the ROM don’t get to see what lies behind the public galleries, and yet less than 1% of the ROM’s collections are on display. These collections do far more than gather dust: they are a reference point in time, and, from a natural history perspective, provide a baseline for our understanding of life. I have received a lot of data requests from inside and outside the ROM. Some I can answer, and some I automatically forward along to collections. A group of recent emails stood out in particular...
Tattoos: Today
Although tattooing has deep roots across cultures and has spread globally, across several millennia, the Western perception of tattoos, the tattooist, and the tattooed has had connotations of deviance.
Were These Peruvian Mummies Climate Change Nomads?
Join the ROM team in the field in Peru
Tattoos: Arctic
How tattoos are viewed in the Arctic communities.
Profile: Marianne Mader
New on the Ground (and in Space)
The ROM’s Marianne Mader discusses her inspirations and what’s next for her.
What made you pursue planetary science as a study?
The TRCA Calls Upon Batman for Help
It’s been a hot summer, the sun is shining and the Scarborough Bluffs are standing tall above the Lake Ontario shoreline. But they might not be for long. The Scarborough Bluffs in Toronto’s east end are eroding at a rapid rate, increasing the likelihood of slope failure and damage to local species’ habitats. Although the cliffs have been eroding since the 1940s, the view from atop the Bluffs was too enticing to prevent people from further settling there. As houses were feverishly built along the Bluffs, the rate of erosion further accelerated.
Tattoos: Exploring Tattoo Culture Around the World
Tattoos: Ritual, Identity, Obsession and Art.
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