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.
From the lack of genitals on museum models to whether it felt sadness and other emotions, palaeontologist Gregory Funston answers questions about how the Tyrannosaurus rex lived and evolved.
The annual upstream salmon migration is an incredible journey of power and endurance as these tenacious fish navigate one of the most taxing periods of their lives
An interview with architect Robert Jan Van Pelt on how Auschwitz was constructed to be a death camp
How museum are rethinking and rewriting the stories of their collections
The nomadic winter finches are irruptive migrants who plan their travels based on food supply
A porcelain vase in the ROM’s collections tells a darker story of how the concentration camp system in Germany used forced labour to produce decorative objects for the Nazi party
A new ROM painting, by Japanese-Canadian artist Norman Kiyomitsu Takeuchi, focuses on how identity is shaped by experience
An object in the ROM’s collections calls attention to the rejection of Wisconsin Ojibwe treaty rights and highlights how a beer can became a symbol of intolerance
How do our stories shape our artistic expression? Walter Toshiyuki Sunahara’s visually striking paintings contemplate his childhood memories of internment in the remote interior of British Columbia during the Second World War
ROM Trustee Rita Shelton Deverell on the leading role museums can play in an informed future
Like many of today’s millennials, adolescent Sabre-Toothed Cats stayed with family longer than expected
From deciphering genomes to studying the rate at which different species evolve, our ornithology collections are essential to informing new scientific research
How ongoing research is pushing the boundaries of Mummy Studies and teaching us about the lives of these ambassadors from the past
The newest exhibition at the ROM provides unique insights into the lives, mummification, and deaths of ancient Egyptians
A historic moment for NASA as spacecraft approaches descent on asteroid for sample collection