ROM Magazine

ROM Magazine features an engaging, in-depth look into the Museum’s exhibitions, research, and collections. Highlighting world-leading scholarship, new initiatives, and recent acquisitions, the magazine brings to life some of the Museum’s most exciting and fascinating stories.

Narratives on/of Untailored Cloth

Art, Fashion and Kalamkari Makers

Tiger's Embrace

In Conversation with Artist Xiaojing Yan

Measure for Measure

New research reveals how differing techniques of weighing a dinosaur yield strikingly similar results

A Cambrian Puzzle

An ancient, fossilized marine worm crawls into the light

Malignant Cancer Found in Dinosaur

New research shows evidence of advanced disease in dinosaur bone

The Persistence of Fashion

Terracotta statuette offers a glimpse into the history of men’s fashion

Close-up with portrait, with canvas before cleaning pointed out.
Slash Marks and Bullet Holes

Tales of art conservation from Senior Paintings Conservator Heidi Sobol

ROM Away From ROM

A look at one of our secret collection rooms

Sebastian Kvist setting a leech trap in Lake Vermilion.
Genome sequencing–the final frontier of DNA analysis

Sebastian Kvist on how new study offers insights into the powerful anticoagulants present in leech saliva

What Can You Do to Help Canada’s Migratory Birds?

Every spring birds travel north to their breeding areas

Photographer laying in the snow to get a shot.
Challenges of Wildlife Photography

Learn more about what it’s like to be a wildlife photographer

A water dance of loons

The Canadian loons are back in season

Conserving History

How an ancient Greek statue found its way to our conservation lab

Fashion and Form

A young girl’s garment from the eighteenth century

Two ROM staff load an SUV with PPE.
ROM helps with the fight against COVID-19

Museum staff donate PPE in response to appeal made by local hospitals

Jumping spider.
Spiders in Our Backyard

ROM Entomologist Brad Hubley shares insights into what makes these eight-legged creatures special

The Largest Bird Collection in Canada

How the ROM’s extensive Ornithology collection is crucial to understanding bird diversity and evolution

Global Desire

A sneak peek at some of the objects in the ROM’s renowned chintz collection

Building Bloodsuckers

Using wax to create giant blackfly and mosquito models in Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches

Hands pressing a stamp with yellow paint onto white fabric.
The Global Craze for Cotton and Colour

How Indian chintz transformed fashion, trade, and technology